Publications & Resources

Ordinary People; Extraordinary Change - 2018 Annual Report

In our 2018 Annual Report, you will read the stories of five extraordinary activists.

Highlights 2018

Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world.

Feminism and the Economic System

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.

Uprooting Inequality Brief

The Food Security Policy Group urges Canada to focus on small-scale farming to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women.

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.

Rape by Command

A new report details Burmese Army’s use of rape as a weapon against the Rohingya women and girls.

Highlights 2017

Inter Pares supports local activist organizations to build a more equal world.

Behind the scenes at Inter Pares

In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares.

cover of Inter Pares' 2016 Annual Report

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.

Jean Symes speaking at CELADA conference, 2017

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.

The World Through a Feminist Lens

In this bulletin, we explore our feminist approach, and what it means for activists around the world.

screen capture of the video screened at the 2016 International Women's Day Ottawa celebration

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.

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 Who Inspire

This bulletin celebrates women's leadership and Inter Pares' commitment to feminism and gender equality.

Women in War, Women in Peace

In this issue : No True Peace Without the Voices of Women

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 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.

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.

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.

World March of Women from Outaouais banner, 2015

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Health in the Philippines: Interview with Dr. Junice Melgar

Junice Melgar is a prominent health activist from the Philippines.

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.

Digging Deeper

Digging Deeper - Toward Greater Action on Global Rights for Women and Girls

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rejecting the Cult of Austerity

This Bulletin examines the possibilities enabled by fair and just taxation policies, in Canada and in the South.

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.

Building the Foundations of Peace in Burma

In this Bulletin, we describe our Burma work - building the foundation for the dream of sustainable peace.

Does it work? Feminist analysis and practice at Inter Pares

A two-year participatory research project on Inter Pares as a feminist organization.

Women at the Heart of Change

Decades of feminist organizing have changed societies around the world, although the struggle is far from over.

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.

Health is Always Political

People feel their poverty less when they have the skills to influence social institutions to meet their demands.

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.

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 Struggle for Justice

Dedicated women who support and accompany survivors of violence, and our shared learning in the search for justice

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.

Towards a Feminist Political Economy

How gender influences the social and political relationships and structures of power.

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.

Sustainable agriculture, food security and gender

Deccan Development Society’s work in India, emphasizing ecological agriculture, community-based grain banks and food security.