On July 2, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Yesterday we accompanied the BDH [human rights law firm] to the hearing to review coercive measures in the Hogar Seguro case. The request of two defendants to be paroled for health conditions was declared without place.” Forty-one girls, who were 14 Read more…
Colombian human rights defenders Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) and Ivan Madero from the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) raised concerns about fracking in Colombia when they visited Canada in November 2019. On June 11, Business News Americas Read more…
A company security guard checks a truck entering the San José Mine, November 2012. Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines Inc., through its subsidiary Compañía Minera Cuzcatlán, operates the San José Mine about 2 kilometres from the Indigenous Zapotec village of San José del Progreso in the state of Oaxaca in southern Read more…
On July 1, Bernardo Caal Xol posted on Facebook: “The irresponsibility of the hydroelectric company OXEC S.A. in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis once again violates the rights of the Mayan people Q’eqchi’ of Chi K’ajb’om.” Caal adds: “It has been proven through the company’s negligence and non-compliance Read more…
In September 2019, PBI-Colombia accompanied a visit by human rights organizations and embassies to Buenaventura. On June 4, Business News Americas reported on a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import regasification terminal that is now scheduled to be built at the port of Buenaventura on Colombia’s Pacific Ocean coast. BNAmericas Read more…
On June 8 children in Mathare (an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya) joined a march against police violence. Photo by the Mathare Social Justice Centre. On June 8, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project tweeted: “Last week, [human rights defender] and member of the [women human rights defender toolkit organizers] network Read more…
Hear Danilo Rueda of the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace (CIJP) on a webinar this coming Thursday July 2 at 1 pm ET. This event is co-hosted by the Colombian Caravana, ABColombia, Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom in the collaboration of Institute for the Rule of Law of the International Read more…
A recent Business & Human Rights Resource Centre report highlights that from 2015 to 2019 Colombia was the second most dangerous place in the world for defenders focusing on business and that 90 per cent of the attacks were on defenders raising concerns about just four industries, with the second Read more…