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 the activities of PBI field projects and other PBI entities around the world. We believe that offering short updates (generally 600 words in length) that provide Read more…
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 share their concerns about Toronto-based Frontera Energy and its impact on the community of San Luis de Palenque. Alexandra González Zapata from the Committee in Read more…
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 click here. The webinar featured as speakers: Editar Adhiambo Ochieng, the founder of Feminists for Peace, Rights and Justice Centre, and a PBI Toolkit Organizer; Read more…
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 the issues we are hoping to highlight through this day of action: Arms exports from Canada are increasing According to Global Affairs Canada, Canada’s global Read more…
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 former members of the Guatemalan Army, César Augusto Ruiz Morales, accused in the CREOMPAZ case.” Eleven former military officers have been indicted on charges of forced Read more…
Photo: Environmental activist Adán Vez Lira was shot to death on April 8, 2020 while he rode his motorcycle in the township of Actopan in the state of Veracruz. On June 1, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted this article from Excélsior, a daily newspaper based in Mexico City, that Read more…
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 May 1. In her first message as a Special Rapporteur, Lawlor stated: “My priorities in the coming years will include a focus on the killings Read more…
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 International has expressed concern about excessive use of force by state security forces, impunity despite alleged misconduct, the increasing militarization of policing and the attendant Read more…
On May 30, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on its Facebook page: “Today [at] around 8:45 in the morning, armed men, supposedly belonging to the private security of the Byron Thomae farm, broke into the [community of] Dos Fuentes, [in the municipality of] Purulha [in the department of] Baja Read more…