Share This PagePhoto: PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson with PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio OSC defenders during an advocacy intervention in Ottawa, September 2025. Throughout 2025, PBI-Canada worked to communicate the struggles of accompanied defenders, organizations and communities; Read more
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Share This PageWebinar speakers Teddy Wakum, Dina Danomira, Javier Garate. Join us on Tuesday November 18 for an update about the United Nations COP30 climate summit from two Indigenous land defenders from Indonesia and a Read more
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Share This PageThe Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media: “Last week, we visited the Garifuna community of Travesía (Cortés). In 2011, the Honduran Black Fraternal Organisation (OFRANEH) filed a complaint with the Read more
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When a human rights defender or a community that PBI accompanies is intimidated or threatened, PBI country groups work with PBI field projects to alert support networks around the world.
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Peace Brigades International is a global movement of activists seeking justice and peace, supporting and standing in solidarity with threatened human rights defenders across the world. Our aim is to protect and support these brave individuals and organisations; strengthen their physical, digital and political security; and enhance their wellbeing. We adapt our approach to both the changing global context and the various constraints human rights defenders and organisations that support them encounter.
"We would have had a lot of concerns [without your] accompaniment. [With it]
we felt more secure as we engaged with this work."
"When I received serious threats, there were many reactions at the international level and I feel that this happened thanks to the work done by PBI on my case."
"[PBI has] taken the lead to create advocacy channels, to remind human rights defenders that they can work with full confidence knowing that the global community is aware of the work they are doing and that they are ready to assist them or protect them in case there are any threats against them."
"Thank you so much. We feel very lucky and blessed to have friends like you. Thank you for being with us at every step. Thank you so, so much."
"PBI is a very important channel for defenders who fight for justice, indigenous peoples and natural resources."
"Today, when we were participating in the session, I felt it was a workshop that could change lives."
“The work of PBI resonates so strongly with me because it creates a space for local leaders to do the human rights and social development work that they, not us in the ‘north’, have identified as a priority.”
“Since discovering PBI, I have been happy to support the organization in its work to quite literally stand side by side with human rights defenders struggling to achieve their rights in the worst possible circumstances. PBI provides security and the political space needed to advance human rights where they are most lacking.”
“Peace Brigades brings courage, humanity and vigilance to the front lines of human rights violations and makes a real difference in the lives of women, men and young people working for equality and justice in their communities. It is that simple. It is that powerful. And it is so vitally important.”
“I give my time and money to Peace Brigades because I admire the courage of those who put themselves at risk to defend human rights. In my own small way, I want to contribute to a world where everyone has peace, security and a voice to create a truly civil and democratic society.”
“The amazing thing is that without PBI these workers would still be doing this work, but under what conditions? What is so vital about PBI is that it levels the playing field by opening up the political space around these local actors so that they can do their vital work without being threatened or intimidated.”
Peace Brigades International-Canada, 211 Bronson Avenue, Suite 220, Ottawa, Ontario,K1R 6H5
Email: Brent@pbicanada.org
Brent Patterson
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