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A Model for Peace: Women building peace in Mali

With the support of ACORD, women and men gathered to learn and share ideas of how to transform national conflict into an authentic and sustainable peace.

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.

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.

Inter Pares Film Nights - Girls' and women's rights in Sudan

Inter Pares is screening a 30-minute documentary from one of our Sudanese counterparts on child marriage. After the film, we will be discussing girls' and women's rights in Sudan with Fahima Hashim, founder of Salmmah Women's Resource Centre.

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.

First-ever trial on sexual violence during armed conflict in Guatemala

14 Mayan Q'eqchí women demand justice for acts of sexual violence that they endured during the country's internal armed conflict.

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.

Why Women Seek Asylum: The global pandemic of gender-based violence

Board member Amanda Dale spoke with us about the challenges for women seeking asylum in Canada.

When staying is not an option

Every year, 80,000 to 100,000 undocumented men and women leave Honduras. The country is rocked by violence, but Hondurans are deemed “economic migrants.”

Picture a Refugee

Labels of "refugee" instead of "migrant" have power worldwide, including in Burma, where displaced people have many stories but with common threads.

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.

Iday Simbajon, Likhaan Center for Women's Health

Iday Simbajon is a community health worker in the Philippines.

2015 Highlights

Here are some highlights of what we’ve accomplished with our counterparts around the world in 2015.

JQSI celebrates women’s local action for a more equal world

From November 5-14, 2015, this year’s 19th JQSI edition will offer a wide variety of events and opportunities to discuss international solidarity issues that concern us all.

Burma: Bringing Grassroots Experience to Canadian Policy

In March of 2015, Inter Pares hosted a delegation of four women from Burma to meet with people facing similar struggles, and to share camaraderie and strategies.

Femmes en marche : la solidarité en action pour changer le monde du local à l’international (JQSI)

Dans le cadre des Journées québécoises de la solidarité internationale (JQSI), venez prendre part à la conférence d'ouverture en présence de notre invitée internationale Mariam Nobre.

Up for Debate: Watch the individual interviews with party leaders

After months of campaigning, Up for Debate put four federal leaders on the record on women’s issues during this election campaign.

Issues affecting women will finally get the attention they deserve on September 21!

Hear what the party leaders have to say about issues affecting women.

Inter Pares Film Nights - Granito: How to nail a dictator

For International Human Rights Day, we will screen Granito, a documentary that recounts the extraordinary story of how a film about the civil war in Guatemala helped a new generation of human rights activists tip the scales of justice in the trial against the country’s former dictator, Efraín Rios Montt.

Up for Debate Campaign: We’re Shifting Gears

The debate we had originally imagined will not happen. But, this is certainly not the end of the road. The issues we care about can, and will be, a major part of this federal election.

Defending the Right to Defend Rights

This bulletin is about the importance of promoting citizen's rights to defend rights around the world, with specific examples from Canada, Guinea-Bissau, and El Salvador.

El Salvador’s Shifting Social Geography

El Salvador shows some signs of openness for dialogue between the government and civil society.

Burmese women's rights activists wary of Canadian mining investment

By Embassy Magazine's Kristen Shane.

Happy International Women's Day: Photo & video gallery

Our inspiring counterparts from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are committed to gender equality.

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.

We were Up for Debate 30 years ago. We still are now.

Caroline Andrew shares her personal memories as moderator of the 1984 women's issues debate.

Politics in Sudan need women’s voices

Inter Pares counterparts act with determination and courage in Sudan to press for change, for peace, and for democracy in the face of incredible odds.

Highlights 2014

Highlights from 2014 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Search for Justice in Guatemala: film screening and discussion

Join Inter Pares and the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa's Social Justice Working Group at this special event.

Feminist activist advocates for women’s sexual autonomy in Peru

Peruvian feminists face opposition by ultra-conservatives as they work to promote women’s sexual autonomy

Asha El-Karib and Amanda Dale: An ongoing conversation on women’s equality

Two women’s rights activists from Canada and Sudan reflect on commonalities in the fight for women’s equality.

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.

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.

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.

Africa: equality, the law, and women’s well-being

African women struggling for access to justice for sexual violence insist women’s equality is essential.

A cultural and gender sensitive approach to trauma healing in Guatemala and Peru

Local organizations in Peru and Guatemala are working to heal the deep scars of the internal armed conflicts left on indigenous women.

Rising from the ashes

The work of Inter Pares and PCS shared through the story of four inspiring Indigenous women in Peru.

Learning and Acting Together

Canadian officials and politicians appreciate having access to perspectives and voices they otherwise would not have heard.

Salmmah: Young Sudanese women challenge taboos

Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre works with young women and men to challenge discriminatory norms and laws in Sudan.

Sold into Slavery: Burma’s refugees exploited by Malaysian traffickers and authorities

Refugees fleeing abuse in Burma are sold by traffickers in Malaysia and south Thailand, with official complicity.

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 Struggle for Justice

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