Indigenous land defence struggles on unceded and Treaty lands in Canada can face police repression, criminalization and judicialization, settler vigilantism, dangerous misrepresentations in the media, gendered threats and violence, and other risks. A key public policy consideration should be how to guarantee that the rights of defenders are protected and Read more…
Photo: Indigenous journalist Abelardo Liz was killed on August 13 by the Colombian Army while covering a campesino protest. He was hit by a bullet in the chest and abdomen when soldiers began evicting Indigenous campesinos from a farm. This Indepaz webpage keeps an updated list of the social leaders Read more…
If it had not been for the pandemic, Peace Brigades International-Canada would have hosted Javier Martinez Hernandez, the legal coordinator of the Saltillo Migrant Shelter, at meetings in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal from March 14-18 to discuss a range of migrant rights issues including the Safe Third Country Agreement. In Read more…
Photo credit Council of Europe This article is written by Cheyenne Williams, a student from Vancouver Island University in a Virtual/Remote Intern/Mentorship through the EleV scholarship program. Over the course of July 2020, a wave of women in North America, Brazil and Turkey participated in the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted to promote women’s Read more…
On August 20, the land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane tweeted: “We call on our allies to continue to amplify our demand for peace and safety.” These Six Nations land defenders began a re-occupation of their territory on July 19 to uphold their right to free, prior and informed Read more…
On August 20, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project posted: “We express our great concern regarding the denunciation of a plan to attack members of the human rights organization CREDHOS and we request that the necessary actions be taken to guarantee the safety of its members.” This follows this tweet from Read more…
Photo: On August 18, Real Peoples Media posted this photo of an Ontario Provincial Police armoured vehicle parked in Caledonia near 1492 Land Back Lane. Six Nations land defenders began a re-occupation of their territory on July 19 to uphold their right to free, prior and informed consent and in Read more…
On August 18, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project posted: “Yesterday, PBI-Kenya and the Social Justice Centres Working Group [the collective leadership of 24 social justice centres across Kenya] met with Peace Cop [a peace building program of the Administration Police Kenya] to discuss the security concerns of communities, community dialogues, Read more…
Photo: Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen and her mother who is holding a photograph of Marco Antonio Molina Theissen. On August 18, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies the family in the Molina Theissen case looking for justice.” Nomada reports: “This Wednesday, August 19, the Higher Risk Chamber will Read more…
On August 15, a cabin belonging to Chief Gisday’wa was burned to the ground. The arson took place two days after a local newspaper ran a front-page story that falsely claimed that the cabin had been “left behind” with “no apparent recent use.” Large convoys of fracked gas pipeline contractors Read more…