The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project is seeking volunteers for their field teams accompanying human rights defenders starting in July/August 2020. Volunteers are based in Bogotá, Barrancabermeja and Apartadó. The deadline to apply is October 11. Following that, key dates include: Between November 2019 and January 2020 – interviews with candidates. February, Read more…
Dear donor, supporter, reader, Thank you for taking the time to open and read this! I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on the work that we do and how we might do it better to defend and advance human rights. 1- How did you first encounter PBI? When was that? Read more…
Human rights defenders who are accompanied by the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project are finalists for the National Human Rights Defence Award. The website for the award notes, “Annually, and since 2012, the National Human Rights Defence Award celebrates the lives of women and men who work in the defence and Read more…
On August 27, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project tweeted, “Today in Pasto we accompanied the ‘Nydia Erika Bautista’ Foundation for Human Rights at an important ‘We Recognize Your Search’ event organized by the Truth Commission and UBPD Search Unit in tribute to women and relatives who look for their loved Read more…
Land defender Rita Wong was recently sentenced in a Vancouver courtroom to 28 days in a ‘correctional centre for women’ for her peaceful resistance to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline that would violate the sovereignty and put at risk Indigenous territories as well as endanger the lives of Indigenous Read more…
The Summer 2019 Advocacy Group Update from Peace Brigades International-Ireland highlights a visit by Mayan Q’eqchi’-xinka feminist Lorena Cabnal. Cabnal visited Dublin from May 29-31. Cabnal is with the TZ’KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism from Ixmulew. The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has accompanied Cabnal since 2006 and Read more…
What do the most recent news articles tell us about the likelihood of the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) proceeding in Colombia? 1- Awaiting State Council ruling On August 13, BNamericas reported, “Last November, the state council – Colombia’s highest administrative tribunal – suspended all administrative acts related to Read more…
Peace Brigades International accompanies human rights defenders who struggle against some of the biggest accelerants of climate breakdown, including fracking, hydroelectric dams, deforestation, palm oil plantations, and mining. The preamble of the Paris Agreement, agreed to at the United Nations COP21 climate summit in 2015, states, “Parties should, when taking Read more…
This recently posted article by two Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project volunteers tells the story of the inauguration of a House of Memory in Lejanías (Antioquia) on August 3 by the group CAHUCOPANA. CAHUCOPANA refers to the Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace of the Northeast Antioquia, a group formed Read more…
On August 16, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Today we accompanied Marcelino Xol Cucul and Jorge Coc of the CCDA Verapaz in audience [at a court hearing]. We continue to express our concern for the safety of the two partners and their families and the development of due process Read more…