Monthly Archives: May, 2019

Nuevo Dia Hearing

Today, Prensa Comunitaria reported (in Spanish) that, "Erasmo Ramos, a young Maya Ch'orti ' member of Nuevo Dia, attended a conciliatory hearing on Tuesday,...

The struggle for LGBTQ rights in Honduras continues

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...

Workshop on Humanitarian Law

This past weekend the Peace Brigades International - Colombia Project travelled on the Magdalena River with Credhos to the village of Puerto Matilde where...

Quaker vision central in the work of Peace Brigades International

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...

CCALCP joins 100,000-person march in Colombia to protect drinking water from mining company

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...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies UVOC at assembly

The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanied the Verapacense Union of Peasant Organizations (la Unión Verapacense de Organizaciones Campesinas - UVOC) at an assembly it...

The struggle for human rights is indivisible from the fight for workers rights

Activists and trade unionists who advocate for workers' rights are by definition human rights defenders, and in many countries around the world that means...

Defenders in the Field

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...

Cinema Massimo

Brent Patterson, June 2, 2019 It is great to see that our colleagues at PBI Italia onlus have partnered with Amnesty International - Italia to...

Murray Thomson’s lasting legacy

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...
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