Publications & Resources

Inter Pares Annual Report 2020 - Sustaining Social Justice

In our 2020 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of sustaining social justice.

How Global Affairs Canada can become a feminist funder

This short brief presents summary recommendations to Global Affairs Canada about how it can deepen the vision laid out in its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) and become a more fully feminist donor.

Envisioning the New Normal

Our November Bulletin, informed by the thoughts and experiences of our community, shares a vision for a new normal that promotes health, economic justice, gender justice and food sovereignty.

Inter Pares Annual Report 2019 - Mobilizing for Change

In our 2019 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of mobilizing for change.

People Over Profit

People Over Profit explores corporate power – and community resistance.

Feminism and the Economic System

Explore the intersection of feminism and economics, including how wealth is generated, distributed, and to whose benefit.

Highlights 2017

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

Inter Pares Annual Report 2016 - 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.

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.

Foreign Pension Funds and Land Grabbing in Brazil

Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds have acquired farmlands in Brazil by way of a Brazilian businessman accused of using violence and fraud to displace small farmers. These pension funds are also using complex company structures that have the effect of evading Brazilian laws restricting foreign investments in farmland.

Burma programming - Past and Future

For over 20 years, Inter Pares has collaborated with local groups in Burma and neighbouring countries.

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.

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.

Video Essay: The option of justice for Sefwi farmers

Ghanaian cocoa farmers have been struggling to obtain full compensation from a Toronto-based mining company for the loss of their land.

Rejecting the Cult of Austerity

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

Building the Foundations of Peace in Burma

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

The Learning Edge: Working in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples

This Bulletin tells stories about the ways Indigenous people are part of making the world better for everyone.

Creating Economic Justice for All

This Bulletin tells the stories of some of the communities, activists, and scholars around the world promoting economic justice.

Promoting Social and Economic Justice for All

How Inter Pares works with others to find ways to redress power imbalances, and concrete measures to build a just and equal world.

Tour - (In)Equality Matters: Social justice and the economy

Hear the discussions of residents of Saskatoon, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa that emerged from the four-city tour on economic justice.

(In)Equality Matters: Social justice and the economy

How to foster economic equality in our communities and around the world.

Reclaiming Our Food

Eliminating hunger and ensuring healthy communities and a healthy planet.

Economic Justice: Sharing the collective wealth

Achieving equity requires that people who are benefiting today from inequity be prepared to give up some of their benefits.

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.

Beyond the Politics of the Possible: Corporations and the pursuit of social justice

This document was presented at "Corporations as a Factor in Social Justice," a forum organized by Concordia University Institute in Management and Community Development in June 2002, and explores the limits of the concept of corporate social responsibility.

An Honourable Commitment: Policy coherence in Canada’s relations with the global South

This brief was part of a formal federal government consultation process, in response to then-Canadian International Development Agency’s paper “Towards a Long-term Strategy for Canada’s International Assistance Program, A Framework for Consultation" (CIDA, October 19, 2000). As such, it contributed to discussions within and outside of government concerning Canada’s moral and political role in the world.

Thinking in the Active Voice

This presentation provides a reflection on the concepts of "development" and "modernization", and the philosophies and ideologies which underpin them.

International NGOs and the Challenge of Modernity

This paper was originally commissioned as a contribution to a special 10th Anniversary Edition of the international journal Development in Practice (Vol. 10, Nos. 3 & 4, August 2000), which explored the future of social justice action within the international voluntary sector as we entered the 21st century.