On January 30, CBC reported, “The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and the B.C. government have announced they will be in talks over the next seven days to de-escalate a standoff over the Coastal GasLink pipeline project in northern B.C.” That timeline takes us to roughly Thursday February 6. The Indigenous land Read more…
Camila Marin was a Peace Brigades International brigadista accompanying human rights defenders in Mexico in 2019. The United Kingdom-based activist reflects, “I began my time as a ‘brigadista’ a month after Andres Manuel López Obrador took office.” “Three months prior to my arrival, Julián Carrillo, a Rarámuri community leader from Read more…
“Let us wake up! We’re out of time. We must shake our conscience free of the rapacious capitalism, racism and patriarchy that will only assure our own self-destruction.” – COPINH leader Berta Caceres, WEHRD killed on March 3, 2016. The Guardian reports that a major study by the International Union Read more…
On January 28, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied the lawyers of the BDH, who together with the lawyer of the Comité de Unidad Campesina CUC, represent three peasant leaders accused of aggravated usurpation.” PBI-Guatemala continues, “This accusation is given in the context of an eviction occurred Read more…
On January 28, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project issued an alert (in English and Spanish) that states, “PBI Honduras is extremely concerned over the high number of attacks against trans women and individuals who defend trans rights, as well as the impunity that has continued in these cases.” Their alert Read more…
The report on Colombia by Michel Forst, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, references Toronto-based Frontera Energy Corp. Forst’s report notes (points 29 and 30 on page 9): In the context of efforts to defend land and environmental rights, at least 202 defenders have Read more…
On January 27, this media release highlighted, “On January 24, the human rights defender, community communicator and journalist MIGUEL LÓPEZ VEGA, member of the Land and Water Defense Front of the States of Puebla, Morelos and Tlaxcala (FPDTA-MPT) … was arrested by elements of the Prosecutor’s Office of Puebla…” “The Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Spanish State is co-organizing a public forum titled, Women, conflicts and peacebuilding: impacts and responses. The event will take place on Thursday January 30 in Sant Cugat, which is located about 30 minutes from Barcelona city center. The public forum will feature Miriam Garcia Torres, the Awareness Coordinator Read more…
On January 27, NOMADESC posted, “Conversation of the territory defender Don Temistocles Machado at the Banco de la República [cultural centre] in Buenaventura.” War on Want has previously noted, “The social organisations and human rights organisations of the Inter-organisational Committee of Buenaventura, along with social movements from across Colombia, denounce Read more…
On January 27, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted, “This Saturday [January 25] we accompanied Cehprodec to a meeting with neighbors of Juticalpa and Campamento, for information on the effects of metal mining on the territory. Juticalpa is the municipality with the most metal mining concessions in Honduras.” Juticalpa and Read more…