Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom and the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk will be hosting six webinars on Wednesdays between June 3 and July 8 titled Portraits of Resilience, Hope and Solidarity. PBI-UK notes: “These webinars will shine a light on the heroic efforts of brave individuals to expose human rights Read more…
On May 21, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project held an online forum to present its new report: We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz. The presentation was hosted by Silvia Weber (PBI-Guatemala) and featured Sandra Calel (the Union of Campesino Organizations for the Verapaces – UVOC), Julio Gonzalez Read more…
“In Ayutla the right to water is denied” On May 21, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted: “We join the call for @CNDH [the National Human Rights Commission] and @DDHPO [Human Rights Oaxaca] to comply with the precautionary measures in favor of the community and defenders in #AyutlaMixe.” Codigo DH, Read more…
“I am very grateful to PBI because it is very useful. I like how they work: their weapon was their T-shirts.” – Obtilia Eugenio Manuel Obtilia defends the rights of the Tlapanec people in the state of Guerrero, Mexico and founded the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM). Peace Read more…
La Sangre de la Tierra (The Blood of the Earth), a documentary film made by Peace Brigades International and Asociación Entrepueblos, is scheduled to be screened at the Planet in Focus film festival (October 15-20) in Toronto and at the International Symposium on Indigenous Languages (February 11, 2021) in Quebec City. Read more…
On February 7 of this year, CBC reporter Chantelle Bellrichard tweeted: “Just got an email reply on an earlier request I’d sent to #RCMP around costs for last year’s enforcement actions and establishment of CISO [Community Industry Safety Office] detachment [on Wet’suwet’en territory]. RCMP said actions between January and March Read more…
It is possible that the world could see a decrease in spending on weapons due to the drop in the price of oil, pandemic related debt, and a popular push for public funds to be spent on health care and the environment rather than increasingly on armaments. On May 18, Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Indonesia Project is looking for volunteers with English language skills to assist human rights defenders. Many of the human rights defenders they work with speak little to no English, but it is an important skill for them to have to help them engage and advocate at the Read more…
Photo: ANH president Armando Zamora Reyes and Colombian energy minister Maria Fernanda Suarez after he was sworn into office, March 12, 2020. On May 20, Armando Zamora, the president of the Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), stated: “The timetable [for the fracking pilot projects] continues, and the interest of the Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project published a 64-page report titled We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz. In the introduction to the report, PBI-Guatemala notes: “Alta Verapaz (AV) is a department characterized by difficult realities and deep contradictions: it has the highest number of conflicts over agrarian issues Read more…