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PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio_OSC tells the IACHR that 10 defenders have been killed since the start of the pandemic

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On July 17, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted about a meeting this week of the OSC Space, which it accompanies. The Espacio_OSC for the...

PBI-Canada notes the criminalization of Indigenous peoples for defending land rights in Saskatchewan and Guatemala

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Peace Brigades International-Canada notes similar patterns of the criminalization of Indigenous peoples in Guatemala and the Northern Territories of Turtle Island/Abya Yala (Canada) and...

Canadian union NUPGE calls for end to repression and violence against trade unionists in Guatemala

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Larry Brown, the President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), has sent a letter to the President of Guatemala calling...

Colombian court to consider lawsuit that says fracking pilot projects would violate the precautionary principle and human rights

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Colombia’s top administrative court, the Council of State, will consider a lawsuit that claims that Decree 328 that allows proposed fracking pilot projects violates...

PBI-Canada welcomes four new Board members!

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We are pleased to welcome Sylvia McAdam, Meera Karunananthan, Ailish Morgan-Welden, and Marianna Tzabiras to our Board of Directors! Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) is from Treaty...

PBI-Guatemala hosts webinar with TZ’KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Territorial Community Feminism

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On July 15, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project hosted a livestream presentation with two members of TZ’KAT. The promotion for this online discussion noted: “We...

PBI-Canada supports Voice of Women day of action on July 24 against the planned $19 billion purchase of fighter jets

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Peace Brigades International-Canada supports the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) day of action this coming Friday July 24 against the Government of...

29-year-old environmental defender Marvin Damian Castro killed in Honduras

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Agence France Presse reports: “Marvin Damian Castro, 29, was found dead on Monday after he went missing, the Committee of Families of the...

Indigenous groups call on Canadian government to return Tomás Zerón to Mexico in Ayotzinapa case

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Photo by Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project. CBC reports: “On June 29, three Indigenous groups in Canada — Idle No More, Defenders of the Land and...

PBI and ISHR respond to UN Special Rapporteur report on judges and lawyers in Honduras

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On July 13, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) presented a joint statement at the United Nations developed in collaboration with the Peace...
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