On September 1, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project tweeted, “We express our concerns about the threats received by leaders of @CAHUCOPANA, who accompany communities in the Northeast of Antioquia, and report a situation of insecurity; their protection and investigation of the facts is necessary @ONUHumanRights.” CAHUCOPANA (the Humanitarian Action Corporation Read more…
On August 30, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on social media, “Yesterday we accompanied CEHPRODEC to an annual march in which hundreds of people from the communities protested against the extractivism that, they say, threaten the territories and natural resources.” PBI-Honduras has explained that CEHPRODEC (the Honduran Centre for Read more…
On August 30, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted, “PBI accompanied EDUCA at the colloquium ‘Challenges of the social and popular movement in the times of transformations in Mexico 1994-2019’.” PBI-Mexico notes that it has accompanied Services for an Alternative Education (EDUCA) since May 2013 “because of their vulnerable situation Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project is seeking field volunteers! Key qualifications include a fluency in Spanish, a commitment to at least 12 months of field work, and an ability to work in a horizontal structure where decisions are made through consensus. PBI-Honduras will cover the following costs: a round trip Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted, “This August 30, the international day of forced disappearance, PBI accompanied the Paso del Norte Human Rights Center on the march to make visible the struggle of mothers and families. To make the search for missing persons a priority for the government.” PBI-Mexico Read more…
On September 2, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project posted, “Last week we accompanied the Corporation for Judicial Freedom (CJL) in the Humanitarian Caravan for Life in Bajo Cauca Antioqueño.” “Within the framework of which we visit the communities of several villages and municipalities (Puerto Valdivia, La Caucana, Alto del Tigre, Read more…
Rigoberta Menchú is a Mayan k’iche’ human rights defender who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 when she was 33 years old. In the late 1980s she was accompanied by the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project, which had been created in 1983. And as Green Left Weekly notes, “Menchu Read more…
Alaine Lisham Hawkins played a crucial role in the early formative years of the global human rights organization Peace Brigades International. In terms of her childhood, Alaine was born in England in 1935 and moved with her parents to Pickering, Ontario, Canada in 1937. After completing university, she took a Read more…
On September 5, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted, “This morning we accompanied the Committee for Free Expression [a coalition of journalists and civil society representatives] to the Constitutional Chamber, where they signed a Habeas Corpus appeal in favour of the eight defenders of the Guapinol territory who have been Read more…