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The Immigrant Workers Centre to receive 2018 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award

Inter Pares is honored to give the award to the Immigrant Workers Centre for their courageous work in ....

I Am The Other: Inter Pares 2018 Speakers Series

A bilingual evening on the topic of discrimination and social exclusion.

CAMEX: A new Latin American counterpart is born

CAMEX is building on the work of its predecessor, Project Counselling Service (PCS), which closed its doors in December 2016.

Harvesting Freedom ends on a triumphant note

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, the Harvesting Freedom caravan travelled more than 1,600 kilometres across Ontario.

Inter Pares helping to reset the table at the Food Secure Canada Assembly

This event will bring together an estimated 700 delegates to share knowledge, learn from others and build the relationships.

Migrant Dreams screening at the One World Film Festival

As a special afternoon edition of the Inter Pares Film Nights, Inter Pares is sponsoring a screening of Migrant Dreams, a documentary film by Min Sook Lee exposing the precarity and rights abuses that migrant farmworkers in Ontario face, at the One World Film Festival on October 1st.

Harvesting Freedom tour for migrant workers' rights

From September 4th to October 3rd, migrant farmworkers are marching and caravanning across Ontario from Windsor to Ottawa, marking the 50th anniversary of Canada's "temporary" migrant farmworker programs. The caravan is raising awareness among Canadians about how our food system relies on their precarious and underpaid labour, and call on the federal government to offer them permanent residence status and to respect their labour rights.

Defending Land and Livelihood

This bulletin shows how Inter Pares is supporting communities to find justice in Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. It also examines the human abuses perpetrated against migrant workers here in Canada.

In Solidarity with Temporary Migrant Workers

The vulnerable situation of migrant workers in Canada.

Inter Pares Film Nights features "El Contrato" - Q&A with filmmaker to follow

Come and join us for our 3rd edition of Inter Pares Film Nights. This month, we will be watching and discussing “El Contrato” (The Contract), a documentary by award-winning filmmaker, community artist, and teacher Min Sook Lee. “El Contrato” follows farmers from Central Mexico in their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. The documentary shines a light on the unfair working conditions of these migrant workers who come to Canada every year and who work under conditions that no local worker would accept.

Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All

Hundreds of food leaders from across Canada will converge in Halifax November 13-16th, 2014 for Waves of Change: Sustainable Food for All, Food Secure Canada’s eighth National Assembly.

Canadian solidarity with migrant workers

Inter Pares promotes solidarity and collaboration between the migrant justice and food justice movements.

The politics of food production

Imported Bangladesh shrimp or Canadian-grown vegetables picked by migrant labour: it matters how food is produced.

The Politics of Food Production

While we can try to eat ethically, achieving justice for food producers goes beyond individual consumer choices.

Borders and the Freedom to Move

The more governments try to stop migration, the more lucrative it becomes for organized crime, increasing the danger for migrants.