Today, Prensa Comunitaria reported (in Spanish) that, “Erasmo Ramos, a young Maya Ch’orti ‘ member of Nuevo Dia, attended a conciliatory hearing on Tuesday, May 28 for accusations against him by security personnel of a mining company.” Nuevo Dia (also known by the acronym CCCND) was accompanied at the hearing Read more
The struggle against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia continues in Honduras. The statistics are grim. Between 2009 and mid-2018, 296 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Honduras were murdered. Honduras also had the highest per capita number of transgender murders in the world between 2008 Read more
This past weekend the Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project travelled on the Magdalena River with Credhos to the village of Puerto Matilde where Credhos provided a workshop on international humanitarian law to local residents. Puerto Matilde has been subjected to the armed conflict for decades. Credhos has been promoting Read more
For more than 300 years, Quakers have been working for peace. That work emerges out of the Friends peace testimony that reflects a commitment to social justice, reconciliation, mediation, disarmament, and ending militarism. These Quaker principles also serve to inform their longstanding support for Peace Brigades International (PBI), a human rights group which Read more
A massive march of more than 100,000 people took place in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia on Friday May 10. All of the media coverage of that protest is in Spanish. What happened that day and why? A mobilization to protect drinking water El Espectador reports that the protest march Read more
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanied the Verapacense Union of Peasant Organizations (la Unión Verapacense de Organizaciones Campesinas – UVOC) at an assembly it held last week. UVOC is an indigenous and peasant organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of access to land in the context of historical dispossession Read more
Activists and trade unionists who advocate for workers’ rights are by definition human rights defenders, and in many countries around the world that means they face immense risks. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association Maina Kiai has defined any person or organization defending labour rights Read more
Eighty-four Peace Brigades International volunteers provided protection to human rights defenders in the field in 2018. To read more https://www.peacebrigades.org/en/publications/annual-reviews To donate to PBI-Canada to help us find volunteers for our field projects https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/id/45114/ Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=878081665874599 <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=878081665874599&set=a.5369033633257 66&type=3&theater> &set=a.536903363325766&type=3&theater
Brent Patterson, June 2, 2019 It is great to see that our colleagues at PBI Italia onlus have partnered with Amnesty International – Italia to screen the film “Protección Comunitaria: Experiencias desde la defensa del territorio” on June 5 at Cinema Massimo as part of the Cinemambiente Torino film festival! Read more
Murray Thomson, who passed away on May 2, co-founded a human rights group that has observed violations of Indigenous rights in Canada and protects human rights defenders around the world. Read more here.