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PBI-Guatemala accompanied the historic 410-day Lunafil workers strike in 1987-88

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Peace Brigades International activist Karen Ridd tells the story of when PBI-Guatemala accompanied workers with the Lunafil Thread Factory Workers Union at a picket...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Contingency Plan working table discussions

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On September 9, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on Facebook about its presence at the Contingency Plan working tables. PBI-Mexico notes on its website,...

Court ruling expected this week on fracking in Colombia’s Middle Magdalena Valley

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A high court ruling on fracking in Colombia is expected this week. On September 8, the Colombian newspaper Semana reported, “In the next few days,...

CCALCP calls for the implementation of T-361 and protection of the Santurbán páramo

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The Colombian Ministry of Environment has stated that the new delimitation of Santurbán páramo (wetland) will be announced by December 18 of this year. The...

George Lakey’s time as a Peace Brigades International volunteer in Sri Lanka

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George Lakey is a well-known Quaker peace activist, sociologist and writer. The Guardian notes that among his many actions, “He helped sail a ship to...

PBI-Honduras attends presentation of report on murder of Berta Cáceres

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On September 7, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted in Spanish, “Last Wednesday we attended the presentation of the report ‘Violence, corruption and...

Thirty year anniversary of the grenade and knife attacks against PBI-Guatemala

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The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project was established around March 1983, less than two years after the founding of PBI in September 1981. This was during...

Peace Brigades International co-founder Hans Sinn on disarmament and the social good

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On September 4, 1981, Hans Sinn co-founded the global human rights organization Peace Brigades International. Sinn was born in Hamburg, Germany and his early lifetime...

Peace Brigades accompanies at-risk lawyers and criminalized human rights defenders

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Sue Willman, a partner at Deighton Pierce Glynn and a member of the Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group, recounts in this article her experience...

CREDHOS President Iván Madero to visit Canada in November

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  Peace Brigades International-Canada is looking forward to hosting CREDHOS President Iván Madero when he visits this country in early-November for a series of meetings...
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