On November 26, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted, “PBI accompanies the members of the office of @CodigoDH in San Pedro Amuzgos during the day against violence against women.” CodigoDH tweeted the photo above noting, “After having suffered two negligent doctors, Amelia Hernández raises her voice to prevent other women Read more…
On November 26, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “The Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón continues its fight for the defence of the territory and in rejection of the hydroelectric projects in Maya Q’eqchi ’territory. We visited during this week the communities of Champerico, Tres Cruces, Sacta, Martín Chichaj and Sesaltúl.” Read more…
The Unitary Central of Workers (CUT) has just tweeted, “We have decided to reinforce and raise the protest and citizen mobilization, continuing the #ParoNacional with greater intensity for Wednesday, November 27.” Elías Fonseca, a member of the CUT executive, says, “Tomorrow, November 27, we are going to make another national Read more…
On the morning of November 26, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Projected tweeted, “We regret the death of the young Dilan Cruz who in the exercise of his right to social protest to claim his rights was the victim of a violent attack. Violence can never be justified or used to Read more…
On November 23, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project posted, “Social and peaceful protest is a human right, above all, disproportionate repressions cannot be justified against the civilian population, we ask for guarantees and respect for life.” That same day, The Bogota Post reported, “An 18-year-old student [Dylan Cruz] is in Read more…
Twitter photo of protest in Barrancabermeja on November 22 via Twitter. On November 23, The Guardian reported, “After more than 250,000 people marched on Thursday to express growing discontent with president Iván Duque’s government, another large crowd gathered on Friday afternoon in Bogotá’s Bolívar Plaza.” “The crowd, which included the Read more…
On November 22, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied Nuevo Dia in Chiquimula for the presentation of the report on compliance with Camotán’s sentences ‘Without horizons of human development’. The act claimed the right to food as a fundamental human right.” In July 2013, a judge declared Read more…
On November 20, the staff and volunteers from the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project gathered together with many of the human rights defenders they accompany to celebrate the 25th anniversary of PBI in Colombia. The gathering took place at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. As noted in the book Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied three human rights organizations participating in the November 21st national strike. PBI-Colombia tweeted that it accompanied David Ravelo (a founding member of CREDHOS) in Barrancabermeja, the Committee in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (CSPP) and the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective Corporation (CCAJAR). Ivan Read more…
47-year-old Mexican human rights lawyer and social activist Arnulfo Cerón Soriano went missing on October 11 in the city of Tlapa in the state of Guerrero. On November 20, news came of his murder. The Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Centre reports, “His body was found near Colonia el Aguaje, in Read more…