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PBI-Canada to host virtual meetings with MPs, officials, allies and Colombian human rights defenders during pandemic

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Peace Brigades International-Canada is working with the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project to host a series of virtual bilateral meetings with Members of Parliament, government...

Will a Canadian energy company be involved in a controversial fracking project in Colombia?

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On April 24, BN Americas reported, “Colombian oil and gas regulator ANH has published draft contract guidelines for fracking pilots.” That article highlights, “The proposed...

Read the newly released Peace Brigades International 2019 Annual Review!

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On April 29, Peace Brigades International released our 19-page Annual Review outlining our collective activities in 2019. It highlights that PBI accompanied 1,360 human rights...

Indigenous land and water defenders oppose Calgary-based TC Energy pipelines in Mexico

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Calgary-based TC Energy Corporation (formerly TransCanada Corp.) is well-known in Canada. It’s the company behind the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the Coastal GasLink...

PBI-Canada expresses concern about two attacks on Indigenous land defence camps

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Peace Brigades International-Canada is deeply concerned by two recent attacks against Indigenous land defence camps opposed to megaprojects. Spirit of the Buffalo Camp on Treaty...

One year after his passing, Murray Thomson’s legacy teaches us to keep working for peace

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This Saturday May 2nd marks the 1st anniversary of the passing of Murray Thomson, one of the founders of Peace Brigades International. His friend Dennis...

Peace Brigades International and the UN Charter’s call for the least diversion of the world’s resources into armaments

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The founding statement of Peace Brigades International from September 1981 says, “We appeal in particular to all those who seek to fulfill the high...

The Roots and Early Years of Peace Brigades International by co-founder Daniel N. Clark

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On June 30, 2001, Daniel N. Clark, one of the founders of Peace Brigades International in 1981, wrote this essay and posted it to...

George Willoughby, crew member on the Golden Rule, and founder of Peace Brigades International

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George Willoughby was one of the signatories of a letter dated January 12, 1981 that invited people to gather to form an organization that...

How Leo Tolstoy helped inspire the formation of Peace Brigades International

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More than 70 years after his death in Russia, Leo Tolstoy’s words reached out to a group of eleven people gathered in Canada developing...
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