Yearly Archives: 2019

PBI-Germany hosts seminar in Hamburg on Zapatista and CRIC struggles for rights

Peace Brigades International-Germany will be holding a seminar on October 26-27 in Hamburg titled: Indigenous movements in Chiapas (Mexico) and Cauca (Colombia) and their...

What do human rights and legal observers do?

The founding statement of Peace Brigades International notes: “We are forming an organization with the capability to mobilize and provide trained units of volunteers.  These...

Earth Institute article says fracking a risk to peace in Colombia

Alexander Rustler’s article for the New York-based Earth Institute highlights that fracking risks the already precarious peace process in Colombia and that fracking the...

Colombian environmental defenders to visit Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Nanaimo

Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and Ivan Madero from the Regional Corporation for the Defence of...

Extinction Rebellion honours Earth Defenders killed for protecting the environment

This Extinction Rebellion newsletter notes, “, XR communities in Paris and London joined in a wave of solidarity for fallen Earth Defenders: those for...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Community Feminism Network at reinstallation of monument to girls killed at state home

On October 9, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on its Facebook page, “Yesterday we accompanied the Network of Healers in the ceremony for...

PBI-Guatemala observes University of San Carlos student association elections

On October 5, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “From today until Monday, October 7, the elections of the board of directors and work...

PBI-Mexico accompanies the Fray Juan de Larios Centre for Human Rights at exhumations

On October 4, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted, “PBI accompanies the Fray Juan de Larios Centre for Human Rights in Piedras Negras, Coahuila.” That...

PBI-Honduras accompanies ASOPODEHU at Independence Day protest march

The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted, “On the 15th of September, PBI-Honduras Project accompanied ASOPODEHU to the observation of a protest march commemorating...

Petra Kelly on Peace Brigades International, disarmament and a way forward

“There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction.”...
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