Monthly Archives: June, 2020

Our 50th consecutive e-newsletter! Thank you to our readers!

This issue marks the 50th consecutive Peace Brigades International-Canada e-newsletter. It is our attempt to keep you up to date on our work and...

PBI-Canada organizes virtual roundtable with Colombian defenders and Canadian civil society

Alexandra González Zapata (CSPP) and Fabian Laverde (COSPACC). On June 2, Peace Brigades International-Canada organized a virtual roundtable to enable Colombian human rights defenders to...

PBI-Canada attends PBI-UK organized webinar with Kenyan human rights defenders

On June 3, Peace Brigades International-Canada attended the ‘Government and grassroots responses in Kenya’ webinar organized by PBI-United Kingdom. To watch the 1-hour webinar, please...

PBI-Canada endorses the War Is Not Essential virtual day of action on June 11

Peace Brigades International-Canada has endorsed the War Is Not Essential online day of action happening on Thursday June 11 starting at 1 pm ET. Among...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH lawyers at hearing of former military officer indicted in crimes against humanity case

On June 2, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Yesterday we accompanied the BDH lawyers to the hearing for review of measures of the...

PBI-Mexico shares Excélsior article that reports “10 environmental defenders killed during pandemic”

Photo: Environmental activist Adán Vez Lira was shot to death on April 8, 2020 while he rode his motorcycle in the township of Actopan...

Mary Lawlor on her priorities as the Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders and the role of PBI

Listen to this video excerpt by clicking here. Mary Lawlor became the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on...

PBI expressions of concern about police violence, the militarization of policing, and extra-judicial killings by the police

Photo: PBI-Kenya at the launch of the Missing Voices 2019 Annual Report on the State of Police Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Kenya. Peace Brigades...

PBI-Guatemala expresses concern about armed attack on Mayan Poqomchi community that leaves teenager wounded

On May 30, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on its Facebook page: “Today around 8:45 in the morning, armed men, supposedly belonging...
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