Photo by El Nuevo Dia. In July 2013, the residents of the municipality of Piedras in the department of Tolima voted in a popular consultation against large-scale mining activities on their territory. Americas Quarterly has reported that while Colombian law (Law 134 of 1994, Article 8) says it is obligatory Read more…
Photo: Eliceo Enciso’s sister Sandra and her daughter point to their land where Frontera Energy wants to drill for oil. Photo by Darius Ossami. On June 30, the Berlin-based Nachrichtenpool Lateinamerika reported: “The municipality of Los Kioscos is located in the Colombian department of Meta, in the middle of the Read more…
Photo: Sneider Centeno, one of the Garifuna land defenders kidnapped on July 18. On the morning of Saturday July 18, Miriam Miranda, the leader of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), tweeted: “We are informed from the community of Triunfo de la Cruz, that the president of the Board Read more…
Instagram photo by portland_resistance. There is an unverified social media report that an armoured Stryker vehicle has been seen in Portland, Oregon. Portland has been experiencing ongoing protests against police violence since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. The response to those protests has recently escalated. Read more…
The Toronto-based United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, recently presented his report on International solidarity and climate change to the UN Human Rights Council. His 20-page report notes: “An important goal of the report is to better illuminate the role of human rights-based international Read more…
On July 18, Contagio Radio reported that the two routes of the March for Dignity will arrive in Bogota on July 20, National Independence Day. “The so-called ‘Ruta Libertadora’ started from Gibraltar, municipality of Toledo, Norte de Santander [500 kilometres north of Bogota], while the ‘Ruta Comunera’ did it from Read more…
Photo: PBI accompanied UVOC at a hearing for a community defender in February of this year. Emisoras Unidas reports: “This Sunday [July 19], the Government declared a State of Siege in five municipalities in the departments of Izabal and Alta Verapaz.” This state of siege applies to the municipalities of Read more…
Kanyenkehaka (Mohawk) land defender Kanenhariyo and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Woos. Solidarity actions were organized across the country when heavily armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers raided unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in February to remove unarmed land defenders opposed to the construction without consent of the TC Energy Coastal GasLink fracked Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project accompanies Codigo DH and Educa Oaxaca, two organizations that took part in the Civil Observation mission that reported on the denial of the right to water for the Indigenous Mixe community of Ayutla, Oaxaca. On May 18, PBI-Mexico posted on Facebook: “We express concern about Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada extends our love, sympathy and support to our friends and colleagues at the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project and the wider PBI family following the death of Mario Paciolla. On July 16, PBI-Colombia posted: Peace Brigades International greatly regrets the sad news of the death of our beloved Read more…