Behind the scenes of LGBTQI+ Advocacy: A mental health conversation with Valentina Parra Oct 21, 2024 | Read more
Joint statement on Canada's support for women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia Aug 10, 2018 | Read more
Behind the scenes of LGBTQI+ Advocacy: A mental health conversation with Valentina Parra Oct 21, 2024 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Mar 11, 2019 | Read more
Inter Pares welcomes Canada’s feminist realignment of international assistance Jun 9, 2017 | Read more
Canadian Government Breaks Promise to Create Independent Corporate Human Rights Watchdog Apr 9, 2019 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Stopping the unstoppable: Citizen resistance to exterminator technology in Burkina Faso Sep 4, 2019 | Read more
Behind the scenes of LGBTQI+ Advocacy: A mental health conversation with Valentina Parra Oct 21, 2024 | Read more
“Until We Find Them”: Searching for missing loved ones on the road to the North Mar 11, 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
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS | Inter Pares and SUWRA launch Canadian civil society working group on Sudan Jun 25, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals Oct 7, 2024 | Read more
Behind the scenes of LGBTQI+ Advocacy: A mental health conversation with Valentina Parra Oct 21, 2024 | Read more
Behind the scenes of LGBTQI+ Advocacy: A mental health conversation with Valentina Parra Oct 21, 2024 | Read more
Advocacy is resistance: Navigating anti-LGBTQI+ violence in post-war Guatemala May 23, 2024 | Read more
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Local knowledge for sustainable climate adaptation In West Africa, women and youth are most affected by climate change despite their minimal environmental footprint. Bulletins Climate plans must include solutions by and for communities “This is where we used to grow rice, before the sea swept our fields away,” Sanca Albino says, pointing to the beach, where the waves crash relentlessly. Updates Gender equality through women-led agroecology Together with our counterparts, we are campaigning for an agroecology that cultivates autonomy. Bulletins Agroecology led by women in West Africa In Madina Sara, the community created a seed bank to conserve seeds. In the News $16 million for climate and feminist action in West Africa Funding announcement for Feminist Climate Action in West Africa project. Updates Women-Led Agroecology is Climate Action In Guinea-Bissau, women’s collectives and community organizations are fighting climate change through the way they produce and prepare food. In the News Redefining Realities: The art of social justice This Bulletin showcases how counterparts use art as a tool to advance social justice. Bulletins The art of emancipation Tiniguena has preserved tropical forest by supporting a network of community forest led by local people. In the News Activists Rising! A Celebration of Youth Leadership On November 18, please join us for a special online celebration of the 2020/2021 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award winner! Celebration The Cycle of change Across the globe, a new generation of activists is engaging to help rebuild and reshape our world, infusing movements for change with fresh energy and ideas. Insight & Analysis Connecting Generations for Social Justice This Bulletin celebrates generations coming together to keep social movements vibrant and alive—and highlights young activists rebuilding and reshaping our world. Bulletins Podcast: Nourishing Community in Guinea Bissau In a new podcast, learn more about the special partnership between Tiniguena and Inter Pares - a partnership that dates back 30 years. In the News 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 Eric Chaurette, Inter Pares Inter Pares Program Manager Eric Chaurette shares reflections from his first visit to Guinea-Bissau and the work of counterpart Tiniguena to engage youth in protecting biodiversity. Personal Story Building Resilient and Just Food Systems The pandemic has revealed deep inequalities in our societies and the vulnerabilities of a globalized and heavily concentrated food system that needs to change. Insight & Analysis Civil society in Guinea-Bissau responds to COVID-19 and food crisis Inter Pares counterpart Tiniguena is playing a key role during the pandemic. Insight & Analysis The work of social justice continues during COVID-19 In this moment of global uncertainty, grassroots mobilization gives us hope. Updates Women-led Agroecology In West Africa, social and patriarchal conditions and norms limit rural women’s opportunities and rights. Women are often denied rights to access and own land, or permission to leave the household for employment. Briefs DDS and Urok Community Marine Protected Area win 2019 Equator Prize Inter Pares is thrilled to congratulate two champions of biodiversity on winning the prestigious Equator Prize. Updates Sanhá João Correia, Tiniguena Sanhá João Correia works with Tiniguena overseeing an innovative school garden and meals program. Miguel de Barros, Tiniguena In 1995, when I was 14 years old, I was one of 15 students selected from schools in Bissau to participate in a learning exchange organized by Tiniguena in Guinea-Bissau. Walking the path together: Building solidarity between West African and southern Indian farmers What do West Africa and southern India have in common? Quite a lot! Updates Visit from two renowned African feminists We had the privilege of welcoming two leading feminists and longtime Inter Pares collaborators from Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. Updates Augusta Henriques, Tiniguena Augusta Henriques cofounded Tiniguena, whose name means “this land is ours,” to help Bissau-Guineans steward their country’s rich natural and cultural resources. Film screening - La fièvre verte (Green Fever) On the last day of the One World Film Festival, Inter Pares will hold a screening of La fièvre verte (The Green Fever). Film screening Interview with Geoff Evans, a long-time Inter Pares supporter and admirer Geoff Evans describes why he has stayed engaged with Inter Pares over three decades. Happy Birthday Tiniguena! Tiniguena, founded in 1991, is a courageous organization that over its history has managed to accomplish big things. Updates 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. Bulletins Guinea-Bissau: Hope is in the Air Early 2015, staff member Patricia Charest Mugwaneza visited Inter Pares’ counterpart Tiniguena. She shares her experience. Insight & Analysis Happy International Women's Day: Photo & video gallery Our inspiring counterparts from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are committed to gender equality. Updates Inter Pares Film Nights - spotlight on landgrabs (in French) For our 40th anniversary, we will showcase thought-provoking documentaries for free to inspire, inform and galvanize action for more equal societies. This month, we showcase Fièvre verte, a documentary that shines a light on a phenomenon of massive land acquisition by foreign corporate interest in West Africa. This film gives voices to communities, especially women, who have to live with the disastrous consequences of landgrabs in Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea-Bissau. Film screening Green Fever documentary A must-see documentary video on the worldwide phenomenon of massive land acquisition in West Africa. Video The True Face of Landgrabs in West Africa Participatory research reveals disastrous impacts on communities. Insight & Analysis Land Rights and Communities This bulletin is about struggles for land rights that communities are facing – and overcoming – in Bangladesh, Mexico, and nine West African countries. Bulletins Augusta Henriques: a lifetime activist for preservation of biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau Co-founder of Tiniguena, she devoted her life to working for social change and peace in her country. Protecting biodiversity and building food sovereignty in Guinea-Bissau Tiniguena, an organization in Guinea-Bissau, celebrates 20 years of struggle for emancipation and biodiversity conservation. Insight & Analysis Strengthening bonds of solidarity in West Africa Inter Pares staff Rachel Gouin facilitates fundraising for social change workshop with youth in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. Updates Giving as an Act of Solidarity The most important is to build a movement by gaining the support of people who care about social justice. Bulletins
Round Table with Vigilance OGM: Agroecology, feminist approaches and the struggle against agrochemicals From September 20 to 30, 2024, Inter Pares accompanied an international West African delegation to meet farming communities and feminist activists in Quebec.
Local knowledge for sustainable climate adaptation In West Africa, women and youth are most affected by climate change despite their minimal environmental footprint. Bulletins
Climate plans must include solutions by and for communities “This is where we used to grow rice, before the sea swept our fields away,” Sanca Albino says, pointing to the beach, where the waves crash relentlessly. Updates
Gender equality through women-led agroecology Together with our counterparts, we are campaigning for an agroecology that cultivates autonomy. Bulletins
Agroecology led by women in West Africa In Madina Sara, the community created a seed bank to conserve seeds. In the News
$16 million for climate and feminist action in West Africa Funding announcement for Feminist Climate Action in West Africa project. Updates
Women-Led Agroecology is Climate Action In Guinea-Bissau, women’s collectives and community organizations are fighting climate change through the way they produce and prepare food. In the News
Redefining Realities: The art of social justice This Bulletin showcases how counterparts use art as a tool to advance social justice. Bulletins
The art of emancipation Tiniguena has preserved tropical forest by supporting a network of community forest led by local people. In the News
Activists Rising! A Celebration of Youth Leadership On November 18, please join us for a special online celebration of the 2020/2021 Peter Gillespie Social Justice Award winner! Celebration
The Cycle of change Across the globe, a new generation of activists is engaging to help rebuild and reshape our world, infusing movements for change with fresh energy and ideas. Insight & Analysis
Connecting Generations for Social Justice This Bulletin celebrates generations coming together to keep social movements vibrant and alive—and highlights young activists rebuilding and reshaping our world. Bulletins
Podcast: Nourishing Community in Guinea Bissau In a new podcast, learn more about the special partnership between Tiniguena and Inter Pares - a partnership that dates back 30 years. In the News
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
Eric Chaurette, Inter Pares Inter Pares Program Manager Eric Chaurette shares reflections from his first visit to Guinea-Bissau and the work of counterpart Tiniguena to engage youth in protecting biodiversity. Personal Story
Building Resilient and Just Food Systems The pandemic has revealed deep inequalities in our societies and the vulnerabilities of a globalized and heavily concentrated food system that needs to change. Insight & Analysis
Civil society in Guinea-Bissau responds to COVID-19 and food crisis Inter Pares counterpart Tiniguena is playing a key role during the pandemic. Insight & Analysis
The work of social justice continues during COVID-19 In this moment of global uncertainty, grassroots mobilization gives us hope. Updates
Women-led Agroecology In West Africa, social and patriarchal conditions and norms limit rural women’s opportunities and rights. Women are often denied rights to access and own land, or permission to leave the household for employment. Briefs
DDS and Urok Community Marine Protected Area win 2019 Equator Prize Inter Pares is thrilled to congratulate two champions of biodiversity on winning the prestigious Equator Prize. Updates
Sanhá João Correia, Tiniguena Sanhá João Correia works with Tiniguena overseeing an innovative school garden and meals program.
Miguel de Barros, Tiniguena In 1995, when I was 14 years old, I was one of 15 students selected from schools in Bissau to participate in a learning exchange organized by Tiniguena in Guinea-Bissau.
Walking the path together: Building solidarity between West African and southern Indian farmers What do West Africa and southern India have in common? Quite a lot! Updates
Visit from two renowned African feminists We had the privilege of welcoming two leading feminists and longtime Inter Pares collaborators from Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. Updates
Augusta Henriques, Tiniguena Augusta Henriques cofounded Tiniguena, whose name means “this land is ours,” to help Bissau-Guineans steward their country’s rich natural and cultural resources.
Film screening - La fièvre verte (Green Fever) On the last day of the One World Film Festival, Inter Pares will hold a screening of La fièvre verte (The Green Fever). Film screening
Interview with Geoff Evans, a long-time Inter Pares supporter and admirer Geoff Evans describes why he has stayed engaged with Inter Pares over three decades.
Happy Birthday Tiniguena! Tiniguena, founded in 1991, is a courageous organization that over its history has managed to accomplish big things. Updates
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. Bulletins
Guinea-Bissau: Hope is in the Air Early 2015, staff member Patricia Charest Mugwaneza visited Inter Pares’ counterpart Tiniguena. She shares her experience. Insight & Analysis
Happy International Women's Day: Photo & video gallery Our inspiring counterparts from Africa, Latin America, and Asia are committed to gender equality. Updates
Inter Pares Film Nights - spotlight on landgrabs (in French) For our 40th anniversary, we will showcase thought-provoking documentaries for free to inspire, inform and galvanize action for more equal societies. This month, we showcase Fièvre verte, a documentary that shines a light on a phenomenon of massive land acquisition by foreign corporate interest in West Africa. This film gives voices to communities, especially women, who have to live with the disastrous consequences of landgrabs in Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea-Bissau. Film screening
Green Fever documentary A must-see documentary video on the worldwide phenomenon of massive land acquisition in West Africa. Video
The True Face of Landgrabs in West Africa Participatory research reveals disastrous impacts on communities. Insight & Analysis
Land Rights and Communities This bulletin is about struggles for land rights that communities are facing – and overcoming – in Bangladesh, Mexico, and nine West African countries. Bulletins
Augusta Henriques: a lifetime activist for preservation of biodiversity in Guinea-Bissau Co-founder of Tiniguena, she devoted her life to working for social change and peace in her country.
Protecting biodiversity and building food sovereignty in Guinea-Bissau Tiniguena, an organization in Guinea-Bissau, celebrates 20 years of struggle for emancipation and biodiversity conservation. Insight & Analysis
Strengthening bonds of solidarity in West Africa Inter Pares staff Rachel Gouin facilitates fundraising for social change workshop with youth in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. Updates
Giving as an Act of Solidarity The most important is to build a movement by gaining the support of people who care about social justice. Bulletins