Joint statement on Canada's support for women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia Aug 10, 2018 | Read more
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Jun 9, 2017 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Feb 14, 2019 | Read more
The Immigrant Workers Centre to receive 2018 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award Apr 18, 2018 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Feb 14, 2019 | Read more
Walking the path together: Building solidarity between West African and southern Indian farmers Apr 7, 2017 | Read more
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Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesAfricaAsiaLatin AmericaHighlights Faces of Courage What is Courage? Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaLatin AmericaBulletins Feminism and the Economic System Feminism and the Economic System Women's EqualityEconomic JusticeCanadaLatin AmericaBulletins Karen Women's Organization & Inter Pares: A relationship based on shared values Inter Pares has an extensive program on Burma, in which we have been collaborating with the Karen Women's Organization (KWO) since 2000. We asked two KWO leaders, Naw K'nyaw Paw and Naw Zipporah Sein, to speak about the nature of our collaboration. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAsiaBurmaVideo Uprooting Inequality Brief The Food Security Policy Group urges Canada to focus on small-scale farming to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaCanadaReports Meet the People of Inter Pares in our 2017 Annual Report In this year's Annual Report, we highlight the people of Inter Pares. Meet some of our counterparts, a donor, a staff and a board member, all part of the Inter Pares community. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyHealthAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports Rape by Command A new report details Burmese Army’s use of rape as a weapon against the Rohingya women and girls. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationAsiaBurmaReports Highlights 2017 Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeHealthAfricaAsiaCanadaLatin AmericaHighlights Behind the scenes at Inter Pares In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAsiaCanadaBulletins Inter Pares' 2016 Annual Report - Hope at the Grassroots We are pleased to announce that our Annual Report 2016 is out! This year, we reflect on the many sources of hope upon which we at Inter Pares draw during challenging political times. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports Improving Canada’s Contribution to Women’s Access to Land in Africa How is it some rights are protected and some not, some laws enforced and some not? Women farmers grow 70% of Africa’s food but often have few rights to land. Massive land grabs by elites and foreign corporations are making the situation worse. Inter Pares’ Jean Symes recently spoke on an expert panel to a conference about how Canada can support African women farmers to keep their land. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaPresentations The World Through a Feminist Lens In this bulletin, we explore our feminist approach, and what it means for activists around the world. Women's EqualityAfricaAsiaBurmaLatin AmericaBulletins International Women's Day (IWD) 2016 This video was created by Inter Pares staff member Rebecca Wolsak and screened at the 2016 International Women's Day celebration in Ottawa. It blends humour and serious introspection to review the past year's feminist highlights and lowlights at the local, national, and international levels, and contemplates the year to come. Women's EqualityCanadaVideo Meet Anna - Inter Pares' youngest monthly donor 10-year-old Anna is making a difference as an Inter Pares Sustaining Donor. Join her in globalizing equality every month by signing up today! Women's EqualityCanadaVideo Women Who Inspire This bulletin celebrates women's leadership and Inter Pares' commitment to feminism and gender equality. Women's EqualityBulletins Women in War, Women in Peace In this issue : No True Peace Without the Voices of Women Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaBurmaBulletins A Feminist Approach to Canada's International Assistance This brief, submitted to Canada's International Assistance Review in July 2016, seeks to build a common understanding of feminist approaches to international assistance, to assess the challenges, gaps and opportunities in Global Affairs Canada’s approach, and to develop a set of practical recommendations for implementing a feminist approach. Women's EqualityBriefs Women's Health & Women's Rights This bulletin highlights the excellent work of our counterparts in reproductive and sexual health of women and girls in the Philippines, in-depth training for midwives in Burma and the unveiling of forced sterilizations committed in Peru. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins Inter Pares Annual Report 2015 - Civil society: Holding governments to account This Annual Report gives an overview of some of the watershed moments experienced by our counterparts during which they held governments to account for some of the root causes of inequality. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports Presentation on Women, Peace and Security for the SCFAID Bill Fairbairn, Inter Pares Program Manager, Latin America, testified before the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on April 12th, 2016, during its study on women, peace and security. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyLatin AmericaPresentations World March of Women 2015, Outaouais delegation This video of the World March of Women from Outaouais shares voices of participants who tell us why in 2015, we still need to march. Women's EqualityCanadaVideo What Does it Take to Leave Home? This bulletin offers stories and reflections on challenges faced in Burma, Honduras, and by women coming to Canada. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationBurmaCanadaBulletins Final Report of the International Verification Mission on the Human Rights of the Honduran Migrant Population and Their Right to International Protection In order to shed light on Honduras's under-reported mass migration, PCS organized a delegation of six international experts to investigate the situation. Taking their report to national and international authorities in the summer of 2015, PCS helped reveal these horrendous realities, pressuring local governments and international institutions to address those issues. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationLatin AmericaReports The Future of International Solidarity: an open dialogue - Videos Live again or discover the highlights of Inter Pares 40th anniversary event by watching these videos. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaVideo Case study: Women organizing for health and justice "Side Effects" was part of a larger organizing process that brought together women on health and social justice, and that spanned several years. Women's EqualityCanada Inter Pares Annual Report 2014 – Forty years of global solidarity This Annual Report looks back at some of what we, our counterparts in the South, and our supporters and collaborators in Canada have achieved over those decades. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports Women’s Voices in 2015 Elections This bulletin presents how women's voice will be crucial in 2015, while Canada, Sudan and Burma will hold national elections. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaBulletins Women's Health in the Philippines: Interview with Dr. Junice Melgar Junice Melgar is a prominent health activist from the Philippines. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaVideo Land Rights and Communities This bulletin is about struggles for land rights that communities are facing – and overcoming – in Bangladesh, Mexico, and nine West African countries. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaLatin AmericaBulletins Digging Deeper Digging Deeper - Toward Greater Action on Global Rights for Women and Girls Women's EqualityCanadaReports Health Workers with Grassroots Responses to Crisis This bulletin is about disasters and disease outbreaks that demand a response. Inter Pares counterparts are ideally placed to provide effective solutions. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins Inter Pares Annual Report 2013 – Globalize Equality This Annual Report reflects the depth of the collaboration we develop with our counterparts in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Canada. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports Kiko dela Tonga: Organizing for Women's Health Hear Kiko dela Tonga describe Inter Pares’ collaboration with Likhaan, a national women's health organization in the Philippines. Women's EqualityHealthVideo Dr. Cynthia Maung: A model for women’s leadership Dr. Cynthia provides critical healthcare to Burmese refugees at the Mae Tao Clinic near the Burma border in Thailand. Women's EqualityHealthMigrationAsiaBurmaVideo Rejecting the Cult of Austerity This Bulletin examines the possibilities enabled by fair and just taxation policies, in Canada and in the South. Women's EqualityEconomic JusticeHealthAsiaCanadaBulletins Different Continents, Same Struggles This bulletin highlights the impacts of the various knowledge-sharing events organized by Inter Pares in order to find solutions to common struggles. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaBulletins Building the Foundations of Peace in Burma In this Bulletin, we describe our Burma work - building the foundation for the dream of sustainable peace. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins Does it work? Feminist analysis and practice at Inter Pares A two-year participatory research project on Inter Pares as a feminist organization. Women's EqualityCanadaOccasional papers Women at the Heart of Change Decades of feminist organizing have changed societies around the world, although the struggle is far from over. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaAsiaBulletins The Next Twenty-Five Years: Emigration, Violence and Global Women’s Solidarity Using stories from Inter Pares' programs, Inter Pares’ Executive Director Rita Morbia explores the theme of Global Women's Solidarity. Women's EqualityMigrationBurmaPresentations Health is Always Political People feel their poverty less when they have the skills to influence social institutions to meet their demands. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyHealthAfricaAsiaBurmaLatin AmericaBulletins Women's Struggles for Justice – A Roundtable on Confronting Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Twenty activists consolidate knowledge and advance feminist strategies on the issue of sexual violence against women in armed conflict. Women's EqualityAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaOccasional papers Gender, the Paris Declaration and Women’s Emancipation Molly Kane’s challenge as to how the roles of women and gender are viewed. Women's EqualityPresentations Women’s Struggle for Justice Dedicated women who support and accompany survivors of violence, and our shared learning in the search for justice Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaBulletins Two Activists Take Their Own Hard Line on Improving Women's Rights in Sudan Asha El-Karib and Fahima Hashim outline Sudanese women's struggles for equality. Women's EqualityAfricaArticles Towards a Feminist Political Economy How gender influences the social and political relationships and structures of power. Women's EqualityOccasional papers Rethinking Development: Promoting Global Justice in the 21st Century The global context that will form the imperatives that frame international cooperation, and attempts to re-think international development. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyEconomic JusticeOccasional papers Sustainable agriculture, food security and gender Deccan Development Society’s work in India, emphasizing ecological agriculture, community-based grain banks and food security. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAsiaPresentations
Highlights 2018 Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesAfricaAsiaLatin AmericaHighlights
Feminism and the Economic System Feminism and the Economic System Women's EqualityEconomic JusticeCanadaLatin AmericaBulletins
Karen Women's Organization & Inter Pares: A relationship based on shared values Inter Pares has an extensive program on Burma, in which we have been collaborating with the Karen Women's Organization (KWO) since 2000. We asked two KWO leaders, Naw K'nyaw Paw and Naw Zipporah Sein, to speak about the nature of our collaboration. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAsiaBurmaVideo
Uprooting Inequality Brief The Food Security Policy Group urges Canada to focus on small-scale farming to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaCanadaReports
Meet the People of Inter Pares in our 2017 Annual Report In this year's Annual Report, we highlight the people of Inter Pares. Meet some of our counterparts, a donor, a staff and a board member, all part of the Inter Pares community. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyHealthAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports
Rape by Command A new report details Burmese Army’s use of rape as a weapon against the Rohingya women and girls. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationAsiaBurmaReports
Highlights 2017 Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeHealthAfricaAsiaCanadaLatin AmericaHighlights
Behind the scenes at Inter Pares In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAsiaCanadaBulletins
Inter Pares' 2016 Annual Report - Hope at the Grassroots We are pleased to announce that our Annual Report 2016 is out! This year, we reflect on the many sources of hope upon which we at Inter Pares draw during challenging political times. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports
Improving Canada’s Contribution to Women’s Access to Land in Africa How is it some rights are protected and some not, some laws enforced and some not? Women farmers grow 70% of Africa’s food but often have few rights to land. Massive land grabs by elites and foreign corporations are making the situation worse. Inter Pares’ Jean Symes recently spoke on an expert panel to a conference about how Canada can support African women farmers to keep their land. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaPresentations
The World Through a Feminist Lens In this bulletin, we explore our feminist approach, and what it means for activists around the world. Women's EqualityAfricaAsiaBurmaLatin AmericaBulletins
International Women's Day (IWD) 2016 This video was created by Inter Pares staff member Rebecca Wolsak and screened at the 2016 International Women's Day celebration in Ottawa. It blends humour and serious introspection to review the past year's feminist highlights and lowlights at the local, national, and international levels, and contemplates the year to come. Women's EqualityCanadaVideo
Meet Anna - Inter Pares' youngest monthly donor 10-year-old Anna is making a difference as an Inter Pares Sustaining Donor. Join her in globalizing equality every month by signing up today! Women's EqualityCanadaVideo
Women Who Inspire This bulletin celebrates women's leadership and Inter Pares' commitment to feminism and gender equality. Women's EqualityBulletins
Women in War, Women in Peace In this issue : No True Peace Without the Voices of Women Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaBurmaBulletins
A Feminist Approach to Canada's International Assistance This brief, submitted to Canada's International Assistance Review in July 2016, seeks to build a common understanding of feminist approaches to international assistance, to assess the challenges, gaps and opportunities in Global Affairs Canada’s approach, and to develop a set of practical recommendations for implementing a feminist approach. Women's EqualityBriefs
Women's Health & Women's Rights This bulletin highlights the excellent work of our counterparts in reproductive and sexual health of women and girls in the Philippines, in-depth training for midwives in Burma and the unveiling of forced sterilizations committed in Peru. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins
Inter Pares Annual Report 2015 - Civil society: Holding governments to account This Annual Report gives an overview of some of the watershed moments experienced by our counterparts during which they held governments to account for some of the root causes of inequality. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports
Presentation on Women, Peace and Security for the SCFAID Bill Fairbairn, Inter Pares Program Manager, Latin America, testified before the parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on April 12th, 2016, during its study on women, peace and security. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyLatin AmericaPresentations
World March of Women 2015, Outaouais delegation This video of the World March of Women from Outaouais shares voices of participants who tell us why in 2015, we still need to march. Women's EqualityCanadaVideo
What Does it Take to Leave Home? This bulletin offers stories and reflections on challenges faced in Burma, Honduras, and by women coming to Canada. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationBurmaCanadaBulletins
Final Report of the International Verification Mission on the Human Rights of the Honduran Migrant Population and Their Right to International Protection In order to shed light on Honduras's under-reported mass migration, PCS organized a delegation of six international experts to investigate the situation. Taking their report to national and international authorities in the summer of 2015, PCS helped reveal these horrendous realities, pressuring local governments and international institutions to address those issues. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyMigrationLatin AmericaReports
The Future of International Solidarity: an open dialogue - Videos Live again or discover the highlights of Inter Pares 40th anniversary event by watching these videos. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaVideo
Case study: Women organizing for health and justice "Side Effects" was part of a larger organizing process that brought together women on health and social justice, and that spanned several years. Women's EqualityCanada
Inter Pares Annual Report 2014 – Forty years of global solidarity This Annual Report looks back at some of what we, our counterparts in the South, and our supporters and collaborators in Canada have achieved over those decades. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports
Women’s Voices in 2015 Elections This bulletin presents how women's voice will be crucial in 2015, while Canada, Sudan and Burma will hold national elections. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaBulletins
Women's Health in the Philippines: Interview with Dr. Junice Melgar Junice Melgar is a prominent health activist from the Philippines. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaVideo
Land Rights and Communities This bulletin is about struggles for land rights that communities are facing – and overcoming – in Bangladesh, Mexico, and nine West African countries. Women's EqualityControl Over ResourcesFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaLatin AmericaBulletins
Digging Deeper Digging Deeper - Toward Greater Action on Global Rights for Women and Girls Women's EqualityCanadaReports
Health Workers with Grassroots Responses to Crisis This bulletin is about disasters and disease outbreaks that demand a response. Inter Pares counterparts are ideally placed to provide effective solutions. Women's EqualityHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins
Inter Pares Annual Report 2013 – Globalize Equality This Annual Report reflects the depth of the collaboration we develop with our counterparts in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Canada. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyEconomic JusticeFood SovereigntyHealthMigrationAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaAnnual Reports
Kiko dela Tonga: Organizing for Women's Health Hear Kiko dela Tonga describe Inter Pares’ collaboration with Likhaan, a national women's health organization in the Philippines. Women's EqualityHealthVideo
Dr. Cynthia Maung: A model for women’s leadership Dr. Cynthia provides critical healthcare to Burmese refugees at the Mae Tao Clinic near the Burma border in Thailand. Women's EqualityHealthMigrationAsiaBurmaVideo
Rejecting the Cult of Austerity This Bulletin examines the possibilities enabled by fair and just taxation policies, in Canada and in the South. Women's EqualityEconomic JusticeHealthAsiaCanadaBulletins
Different Continents, Same Struggles This bulletin highlights the impacts of the various knowledge-sharing events organized by Inter Pares in order to find solutions to common struggles. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAfricaAsiaBulletins
Building the Foundations of Peace in Burma In this Bulletin, we describe our Burma work - building the foundation for the dream of sustainable peace. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyControl Over ResourcesEconomic JusticeHealthAsiaBurmaBulletins
Does it work? Feminist analysis and practice at Inter Pares A two-year participatory research project on Inter Pares as a feminist organization. Women's EqualityCanadaOccasional papers
Women at the Heart of Change Decades of feminist organizing have changed societies around the world, although the struggle is far from over. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyAfricaAsiaBulletins
The Next Twenty-Five Years: Emigration, Violence and Global Women’s Solidarity Using stories from Inter Pares' programs, Inter Pares’ Executive Director Rita Morbia explores the theme of Global Women's Solidarity. Women's EqualityMigrationBurmaPresentations
Health is Always Political People feel their poverty less when they have the skills to influence social institutions to meet their demands. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyHealthAfricaAsiaBurmaLatin AmericaBulletins
Women's Struggles for Justice – A Roundtable on Confronting Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Twenty activists consolidate knowledge and advance feminist strategies on the issue of sexual violence against women in armed conflict. Women's EqualityAfricaAsiaBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaOccasional papers
Gender, the Paris Declaration and Women’s Emancipation Molly Kane’s challenge as to how the roles of women and gender are viewed. Women's EqualityPresentations
Women’s Struggle for Justice Dedicated women who support and accompany survivors of violence, and our shared learning in the search for justice Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyBurmaCanadaLatin AmericaBulletins
Two Activists Take Their Own Hard Line on Improving Women's Rights in Sudan Asha El-Karib and Fahima Hashim outline Sudanese women's struggles for equality. Women's EqualityAfricaArticles
Towards a Feminist Political Economy How gender influences the social and political relationships and structures of power. Women's EqualityOccasional papers
Rethinking Development: Promoting Global Justice in the 21st Century The global context that will form the imperatives that frame international cooperation, and attempts to re-think international development. Women's EqualityPeace and DemocracyEconomic JusticeOccasional papers
Sustainable agriculture, food security and gender Deccan Development Society’s work in India, emphasizing ecological agriculture, community-based grain banks and food security. Women's EqualityFood SovereigntyAsiaPresentations