Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
Canadian coalition calls for urgent action to uphold civil liberties and Charter rights at protests and encampments across the country May 15, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares joins call for Burma to end use of violence and respect democracy Feb 4, 2021 | Read more
Planning is resistance: Indigenous people in Burma envision a self-determined future May 23, 2024 | Read more
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Jun 9, 2017 | Read more
Stopping the unstoppable: Citizen resistance to exterminator technology in Burkina Faso Sep 4, 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 Mar 11, 2019 | Read more
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Inter Pares and SUWRA launch Canadian civil society working group on Sudan Jun 25, 2024 | Read more
Karate and bodily autonomy: Helping girls in Bangladesh thrive through sport Dec 15, 2022 | Read more
Planning is resistance: Indigenous people in Burma envision a self-determined future May 23, 2024 | Read more
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Insight & Analysis 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. Briefs Derechos de Mujeres en El Salvador en tiempos de COVID-19: Un webinario con La Colectiva Feminista Conozca cómo este colectivo feminista promueve la justicia de género en estos tiempos difíciles. Video Challenging Colonialism As Canada marks Black History Month and International Development Week, we ask ourselves: How can we resist, rather than reinforce, global structures of racism and colonialism? Bulletins Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonialism Start with Us For many people, 2020 was a year of increased awareness about injustices in our society. Insight & Analysis Decolonizing Development Forty-five years after its founding, Inter Pares still aspires to uphold that principle for which we were named. Insight & Analysis New reports share core principles of a feminist foreign policy As a member of the Feminist Foreign Policy Working Group Inter Pares is pleased to share two new reports highlighting our aspirations for Canada’s feminist foreign policy. Updates Be Brave, Be Bold: Recommendations for Canada's feminist foreign policy Be Brave, Be Bold is the Feminist Foreign Policy Working Group's official submission to the Government of Canada on its feminist foreign policy. Reports What We Heard: Feedback on discussions on Canada's feminist foreign policy What We Heard is a summary of rich input from the public and a variety of organizations who have articulated what a feminist foreign policy means to them, and what Canada can do to facilitate its implementation, Reports Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Gender Justice and Feminist Practice in Burma The report compiles a number of insights and key lessons for supporting movement building and systemic change, with a political analysis that centers gender and its intersection with Indigenous rights. Reports New report on funding feminist movements in Burma The Fund for Global Human Rights and Inter Pares have co-published a new report: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Gender Justice and Feminist Practice in Burma. Updates Highlights 2020 Here is a collection of our most memorable moments from 2020. Highlights A Transformative Vision for Gender Justice Our partners in Burma share with us a transformative vision for gender justice. In the News A Feminist Action Agenda for Canada’s Global Response to COVID-19 Together with allies we have prepared a policy brief on why Canada needs a feminist response to COVID-19 and how it can be achieved. Updates A Feminist Action Agenda for Canada’s Global Response to COVID-19 Together with allies we have prepared a policy brief on why Canada needs a feminist response to COVID-19 and how it can be achieved. Briefs Take Back the Day: Raising an activist Celebrate mothers like Misson, who joined her daughter on the frontlines of Sudan’s historic uprising. Updates Take Back the Day! Take back Mother’s Day to its feminist roots. From now until May 10, celebrate mothers in El Salvador, India, and Sudan whose extraordinary activism inspires us. Updates Sustaining activist movements during COVID-19 Inter Pares' programmatic work during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to both focus on the moment, but also on the long-term. Feminism and the Economic System Explore the intersection of feminism and economics, including how wealth is generated, distributed, and to whose benefit. Bulletins Women's Health, Women's Rights BC Speaking Tour 2018 Come and meet activists from Likhaan Centre for Women’s Health in the Philippines. Participate in inspiring discussions of successful community organizing, service delivery and advocacy. Presentation & discussion 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. 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Celebration Behind the scenes at Inter Pares In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares. Bulletins Rural Women-to-Women exCHANGEs An exchange that brought together farmers and rural women leaders from Canada, the West African biodiversity coalition COPAGEN, and the Deccan Development Society (DDS) in India. Insight & Analysis Building Solidarity One Conversation at a Time Raising awareness of other realities, learning from others’ experiences, deepening our solidarity ... this is what Inter Pares seeks to do through our public engagement. Insight & Analysis Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Inter Pares welcomes the Government of Canada’s launch of its long-awaited international assistance policy (IAP). In the News Nijera Kori through the eyes of Canadian interns Between 2012 and 2016 Inter Pares collaborated with Dominique Caouette, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal. Insight & Analysis “NGO USES DOCUMENTARY PLAY 'SEVEN' TO TOUCH, EDUCATE” This review of Inter Pares' Ottawa premiere of Seven was written by Bob LeDrew and published in Ottawa Tonite, April 25th, 2017. In the News Why celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th? Just like years past, Inter Pares is marking and celebrating International Women’s Day in the company of women and feminists from around the world. Updates International Women's Day 2017 Ottawa: The Future is Feminist Join us on March 8, 2017 for Ottawa’s biggest International Women’s Day celebration, featuring the annual Femmy Awards ceremony honouring local feminist change-makers, an activist fair, powerful arts performances, great food and drink, AND a dance party featuring DJ Seiiizmikk! Celebration The World Through a Feminist Lens In this bulletin, we explore our feminist approach, and what it means for activists around the world. Bulletins Taking a Feminist Approach As a feminist organization with over forty years of experience, we have seen the transformative results of a feminist approach and we are keen to see it widely used. Updates Feminism Sans Frontières Feminism is not a worldview invented and held solely by women in the global North. We have found over the past forty years that feminism resonates with social justice activists around the world. Insight & Analysis 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. Video Remembering and honouring Margaret Phillips, one year later Margaret Phillips passed away one year ago this month. She served on Inter Pares board of directors in the 1980s when we created a co-management structure. Updates Flor Salvador: Witness to struggle and triumph in Mesoamerica Program manager Guillaume Charbonneau tells us Flor's story and how she grew into her role supporting women's rights movements across Central America and Mexico. 1 2 next › last »
Honouring Caroline Andrew | The community remembers Sharing stories and celebrating the life of an extraordinary woman. Friends and family are invited to attend the memorial service in honour of Caroline Andrew. Jean Pigott Place, Ottawa City Hall
Forced sterilization: Finding light after the darkness In Peru during the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of women were forcibly sterilized under a government program. In the News
Amani Khalfan Amani is a Program Manager (Africa/Asia), focusing particularly on women's political participation and SRHR.
Privacy please: Respecting community women’s health rights in Bangladesh In Bangladesh’s patriarchal society, our counterpart organization, Nijera Kori, brings poor, marginalized women together in local groups. In the News
Sudan’s legal advocates finding their voice The Sudanese constitution guarantees gender equality. But paradoxically, the “personal status laws” mandate a woman’s obedience to her husband. In the News
Inter Pares reacts to US Supreme Court ruling on abortion Inter Pares believes that abortion is healthcare, and fundamental to one’s bodily autonomy. In the News
Inter Pares Annual Report 2021- Feminist action for justice In our 2021 Annual Report, you will find a look back at a year of feminist action for justice. Annual Reports
On March 8, We want... In many parts of the world, March 8 is a major day to denounce discrimination, inequality and violence against all women. It is also a day that celebrates women’s undeniable contribution to society. In the News
Congrats to Rita Morbia, Karen Takacs Award winner! Please join us in congratulating Rita on this very well-deserved recognition! Updates
Understanding the past, redefining the present RUDA uses intergenerational storytelling to preserve historical memory and promote healing in Guatemala. Insight & Analysis
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. Briefs
Derechos de Mujeres en El Salvador en tiempos de COVID-19: Un webinario con La Colectiva Feminista Conozca cómo este colectivo feminista promueve la justicia de género en estos tiempos difíciles. Video
Challenging Colonialism As Canada marks Black History Month and International Development Week, we ask ourselves: How can we resist, rather than reinforce, global structures of racism and colonialism? Bulletins
Anti-Racism and Anti-Colonialism Start with Us For many people, 2020 was a year of increased awareness about injustices in our society. Insight & Analysis
Decolonizing Development Forty-five years after its founding, Inter Pares still aspires to uphold that principle for which we were named. Insight & Analysis
New reports share core principles of a feminist foreign policy As a member of the Feminist Foreign Policy Working Group Inter Pares is pleased to share two new reports highlighting our aspirations for Canada’s feminist foreign policy. Updates
Be Brave, Be Bold: Recommendations for Canada's feminist foreign policy Be Brave, Be Bold is the Feminist Foreign Policy Working Group's official submission to the Government of Canada on its feminist foreign policy. Reports
What We Heard: Feedback on discussions on Canada's feminist foreign policy What We Heard is a summary of rich input from the public and a variety of organizations who have articulated what a feminist foreign policy means to them, and what Canada can do to facilitate its implementation, Reports
Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Gender Justice and Feminist Practice in Burma The report compiles a number of insights and key lessons for supporting movement building and systemic change, with a political analysis that centers gender and its intersection with Indigenous rights. Reports
New report on funding feminist movements in Burma The Fund for Global Human Rights and Inter Pares have co-published a new report: Lessons Learned in the Pursuit of Gender Justice and Feminist Practice in Burma. Updates
A Transformative Vision for Gender Justice Our partners in Burma share with us a transformative vision for gender justice. In the News
A Feminist Action Agenda for Canada’s Global Response to COVID-19 Together with allies we have prepared a policy brief on why Canada needs a feminist response to COVID-19 and how it can be achieved. Updates
A Feminist Action Agenda for Canada’s Global Response to COVID-19 Together with allies we have prepared a policy brief on why Canada needs a feminist response to COVID-19 and how it can be achieved. Briefs
Take Back the Day: Raising an activist Celebrate mothers like Misson, who joined her daughter on the frontlines of Sudan’s historic uprising. Updates
Take Back the Day! Take back Mother’s Day to its feminist roots. From now until May 10, celebrate mothers in El Salvador, India, and Sudan whose extraordinary activism inspires us. Updates
Sustaining activist movements during COVID-19 Inter Pares' programmatic work during the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to both focus on the moment, but also on the long-term.
Feminism and the Economic System Explore the intersection of feminism and economics, including how wealth is generated, distributed, and to whose benefit. Bulletins
Women's Health, Women's Rights BC Speaking Tour 2018 Come and meet activists from Likhaan Centre for Women’s Health in the Philippines. Participate in inspiring discussions of successful community organizing, service delivery and advocacy. Presentation & discussion
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. Video
Joint statement on Canada's support for women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia Inter Pares and civil society join the Canadian government to call for the release of women’s right activists detained in Saudi Arabia. In the News
W7: Feminist Visions for the G7 This event will bring together around 70 diverse feminist leaders from Canada and around the world to envision a feminist agenda for the G7. Updates
Solidarity with Peruvian Victims of Forced Sterilizations Inter Pares has worked with Peruvian counterparts since the early 1990s to bring an end to a policy that resulted in the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of rural citizens. Updates
International Women's Day 2018 Ottawa: Hashtags & Beyond Join us on March 8, 2018 for Ottawa’s biggest International Women’s Day celebration, featuring the annual Femmy Awards ceremony honouring local feminist change-makers. Celebration
Behind the scenes at Inter Pares In this issue, we invite you behind the scenes at Inter Pares. Bulletins
Rural Women-to-Women exCHANGEs An exchange that brought together farmers and rural women leaders from Canada, the West African biodiversity coalition COPAGEN, and the Deccan Development Society (DDS) in India. Insight & Analysis
Building Solidarity One Conversation at a Time Raising awareness of other realities, learning from others’ experiences, deepening our solidarity ... this is what Inter Pares seeks to do through our public engagement. Insight & Analysis
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Inter Pares welcomes the Government of Canada’s launch of its long-awaited international assistance policy (IAP). In the News
Nijera Kori through the eyes of Canadian interns Between 2012 and 2016 Inter Pares collaborated with Dominique Caouette, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Montreal. Insight & Analysis
“NGO USES DOCUMENTARY PLAY 'SEVEN' TO TOUCH, EDUCATE” This review of Inter Pares' Ottawa premiere of Seven was written by Bob LeDrew and published in Ottawa Tonite, April 25th, 2017. In the News
Why celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th? Just like years past, Inter Pares is marking and celebrating International Women’s Day in the company of women and feminists from around the world. Updates
International Women's Day 2017 Ottawa: The Future is Feminist Join us on March 8, 2017 for Ottawa’s biggest International Women’s Day celebration, featuring the annual Femmy Awards ceremony honouring local feminist change-makers, an activist fair, powerful arts performances, great food and drink, AND a dance party featuring DJ Seiiizmikk! Celebration
The World Through a Feminist Lens In this bulletin, we explore our feminist approach, and what it means for activists around the world. Bulletins
Taking a Feminist Approach As a feminist organization with over forty years of experience, we have seen the transformative results of a feminist approach and we are keen to see it widely used. Updates
Feminism Sans Frontières Feminism is not a worldview invented and held solely by women in the global North. We have found over the past forty years that feminism resonates with social justice activists around the world. Insight & Analysis
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. Video
Remembering and honouring Margaret Phillips, one year later Margaret Phillips passed away one year ago this month. She served on Inter Pares board of directors in the 1980s when we created a co-management structure. Updates
Flor Salvador: Witness to struggle and triumph in Mesoamerica Program manager Guillaume Charbonneau tells us Flor's story and how she grew into her role supporting women's rights movements across Central America and Mexico.