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

CBAN, Check Your Head, and the National Farmers Union Youth created a toolkit to better the food system in Canada.

The report examines the socio-economic, human rights, cultural, and environmental impacts of the expanding production of African oil palm.

ICLMG comprises 38 Canadian organizations & monitors the impact of security legislation on civil rights

Replacing fear with common cause, and addressing the roots of poverty and oppression.

Examination of four case studies of Canadian extractive industry investment projects in Colombia for potential human rights risks

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

Internal armed conflicts in Peru, Guatemala, and Colombia changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

Our best efforts lie in paying close attention to the present – in all its diversity and complexity and possibility.

Inter Pares staff Rachel Gouin facilitates fundraising for social change workshop with youth in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.

How do Northern NGOs work for social justice, rather than reproduce the same relations of power we seek to transform.

The most important is to build a movement by gaining the support of people who care about social justice.

Twenty activists consolidate knowledge and advance feminist strategies on the issue of sexual violence against women in armed conflict.

Highlights from 2008 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Eliminating hunger and ensuring healthy communities and a healthy planet.

Inter Pares has worked with civil society organizations in Burma since 1992.

Molly Kane’s challenge as to how the roles of women and gender are viewed.

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

Issues and dilemmas facing international NGOs dedicated to international solidarity with people in Africa.

Choosing to engage instead of turning away, embracing hope rather than neutrality and silence.

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

In Spring 2007, an exchange took place on an international online research and reflection network on the Great Transition Initiative, concerning the prospect of including the concept of open borders in its vision of a humane and just global future. This article shares elements of that dialogue. Published in Development, 2007, 50(4), (50–55) © 2007 Society for International Development 1011-6370/07

Highlights from 2007 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

Asha El-Karib and Fahima Hashim outline Sudanese women's struggles for equality.

Reflecting on dilemmas and opportunities for community organizers and activists throughout the world.

This Annual Report provides examples of the actions during 2006 that nurtured and reinvented the politics of life.

Activists, policy makers and academics from the around the world met to discuss migration and the rights of people on the move.

Highlights from 2006 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

A movement that aims to translate the outrage people feel about torture into the political pressure that will abolish it.

The paper examines how we categorize people who have been forced to leave their places of belonging.

What one person struggles to do alone, we can achieve together. What one person has begun, we can preserve and multiply.

Public health care globally has been privatized and downsized, and even less accessible to those who need it most

Highlights from 2005 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

A Toronto Symposium organized to honor and celebrate the achievements of Ruth Cooperstock.

An overview of the key issues addressed during “Voices from the South” for Canadian policy-makers and politicians.

Proceedings from a roundtable held March 9th, 2005 in Ottawa.

Brief submitted to the Arar Commission, investigating collusion of the Canadian government in torture of Canadian citizen Maher Arar.

Canadian foreign policies and their effects on agricultural development in Africa.

This keynote address by Brian Murphy at Inter Pares' 30th Anniversary Symposium, "Citizen Action: Challenging the Limits," April 2005, highlighted some of the most pressing issues for activists. From militarism and the security agenda to poverty and invasive biotechnology, Brian explores contemporary paradoxes in political action, while urging for mobilization toward progressive transformative change that challenges the limits of the (politically) possible.

The International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) — a coalition of 34 Canadian organizations — calls for repeal of Anti-terrorism Act (C-36)

The impact of GMOs on food sovereignty and rural development.

Highlights from 2004 of what Inter Pares and its counterparts have accomplished.

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

The global context that will form the imperatives that frame international cooperation, and attempts to re-think international development.

This policy brief explores community-based food security systems based on examples from India.

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

Recommendations for policy directions to help inform and guide civil society and the Canadian government.

This document was presented as the keynote address to the "Community Forum on Social Action," hosted by the Concordia University Institute in Management and Community Development in June 2003, and explores what is at stake in social change activism.

A response on the Bill C-36 report addressing related effects arising from the Canadian government's anti-terrorism initiatives.

This paper was a contribution to discussions concerning Canada's role in the world, initiated by the Hon. Bill Graham, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in his call for a "Dialogue on Foreign Affairs" in January 2003. The reflections in this paper emerge from Inter Pares' direct international experience over almost thirty years.