Yearly Archives: 2019

Cinema Massimo

Brent Patterson, June 2, 2019 It is great to see that our colleagues at PBI Italia onlus have partnered with Amnesty International - Italia to...

Murray Thomson’s lasting legacy

Murray Thomson, who passed away on May 2, co-founded a human rights group that has observed violations of Indigenous rights in Canada and protects...

Murray Thomson’s lasting legacy

Murray Thomson, who passed away on May 2, co-founded a human rights group that has observed violations of Indigenous rights in Canada and protects...

Indigenous Maya land and water defenders Nuevo Dia resist mining in eastern Guatemala

A remarkable story of resistance is unfolding in eastern Guatemala. Nuevo Dia (the New Day Central Indigenous Campesino Ch'orti' organization) is opposed to the Industria...

CREDHOS opposes fracking, seeks to protect freshwater

The community-based Corporación Regional de Derechos Humanos (the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights or CREDHOS) works on a variety of public...

CCALCP helped stop Toronto-based Brookfield Asset hydroelectric project in Colombia

The Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP), an organization of eight women lawyers based in Bucaramanga and Cúcuta in northern Colombia, works on crucial...

CCALCP opposed Vancouver-based Eco Oro mining in Colombia’s Santurbán wetland

Vancouver-based mining company Eco Oro Minerals Corp. has long pursued its Angostura gold and silver mine project located in Santander Department (province) in Colombia. The...

Fortuna Silver mine opposed by community of Santa Carina Minas in Oaxaca, Mexico

In November 2018, Peace Brigades International-Canada brought two human rights defenders from Mexico to share their concerns about the intentions and impacts of Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies TZ’KAT who seek an end to violence against the land and women

The TZ'KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Community Feminism from Ixmulew in Guatemala was formed in October 2015 to defend Indigenous women's rights and the land. Many of...
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