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Bachelet: Climate change a threat to human rights

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Referencing climate change, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, “The world has...

PBI-Mexico film ‘Children of the Water’ screened in Puebla prior to court ruling on dam

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“Sow beauty and not the destruction of the land, Out Comexhidro” On September 9, LadoB reported, “The Peace Brigades International (PBI) organization has made a...

PBI-Guatemala accompanied the historic GAM protest march on October 12, 1984

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The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project was established on March 21, 1983 when it opened its first headquarters there in a vacant home in Guatemala...

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...
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