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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.

This document was presented at "Corporations as a Factor in Social Justice," a forum organized by Concordia University Institute in Management and Community Development in June 2002, and explores the limits of the concept of corporate social responsibility.

This brief was part of a formal federal government consultation process, in response to then-Canadian International Development Agency’s paper “Towards a Long-term Strategy for Canada’s International Assistance Program, A Framework for Consultation" (CIDA, October 19, 2000). As such, it contributed to discussions within and outside of government concerning Canada’s moral and political role in the world.

This presentation provides a reflection on the concepts of "development" and "modernization", and the philosophies and ideologies which underpin them.

This paper was originally commissioned as a contribution to a special 10th Anniversary Edition of the international journal Development in Practice (Vol. 10, Nos. 3 & 4, August 2000), which explored the future of social justice action within the international voluntary sector as we entered the 21st century.

The devastating effects of the shrimp industry on communities in Asia, and their resistance in defense of their rights.