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Monthly Archives: July, 2020

Decision on new Canadian warplanes to be made in “several months”: CBC News

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Today, July 31, is the deadline set by the Canadian government for three transnational corporations to submit their bids to manufacture 88 new warplanes...

Human rights activist Sonia Lopez comments on fracking and repression in Colombia

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On July 30, Common Frontiers, the Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CDHAL) and Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie (PASC) hosted a webinar...

Global Witness ‘Defending Tomorrow’ report notes the criminalization of Wet’suwet’en land defenders in Canada

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In January 2019, heavily-armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers arrested Wet’suwet’en land defenders opposed to the construction of a fracked gas pipeline on...

PBI-Honduras sees greatest percentage increase in lethal attacks against activists in 2019

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In October 2019, PBI-Honduras accompanied CEHPRODEC on a march in the capital city of Tegucigalpa in defence of water against mining. On July 29, the...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies imprisoned Indigenous Q’eqchi leader Bernardo Caal Xol at court hearing

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On July 29, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Yesterday we accompanied Bernardo Caal Xol and the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) to Bernardo's...

Colombian court to hear challenge from Green Party and Indigenous parliamentarians against fracking pilot projects on August 20

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(L-R) Katherine Miranda, César Ortiz Zorro, César Pachón. On July 29, BN Americas reported: “Colombia's highest administrative tribunal is set to rule next month on...

212 land and environmental defenders killed in 2019: Global Witness

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On July 29, Global Witness released its Defending Tomorrow report documenting the land and environmental defenders killed in 2019. It reports: “The documented number of...

Military helicopter lands in Guatemalan community opposed to open-pit Fenix nickel mine

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On July 28, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted a Rights Action article from Prensa Comunitaria with this excerpt: “The helicopter landed on the community...

Where is the Canadian government on due diligence legislation and a Binding Treaty on transnational corporations?

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The lack of a legal, enforceable framework to hold Canadian-based transnational corporations responsible for identifying, preventing and mitigating the human rights impacts of their...

On the 10th anniversary of the UN resolution, the struggle for the human right to water continues

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United Nations Special Rapporteur Léo Heller writes: “Ten years ago, on 28 July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 64/292, which explicitly...
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