Twitter photo by Kanahus Manuel. Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination more than 50 years ago on October 14, 1970. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention. Read more…
Urgent Action: Help stop the criminalization of Secwepemc land defenders The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on Canada to immediately cease construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline and withdraw the RCMP from Secwepemc traditional lands. And yet construction continues as does the criminalization of Read more…
Photo of the blockade of the Picoplata 1 exploration field in the ConocoPhillips/Canacol Energy VMM-2 block in September 2016 from Semana Sostenible. When Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. last attempted to frack in Colombia, an estimated 9,000 people marched in San Martin, Cesar in opposition to this, there was a community Read more…
There are continued concerns about Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. seeking a 10-year extension for its San José Mine situated near the Zapotec village of San José del Progreso in the state of Oaxaca in south-western Mexico. This mine was first developed in 2009, shifted into production in September 2011, Read more…
Serious questions remain unanswered about the relative economic benefits of the federal government’s future fighter capability project. Winnipeg Free Press columnist Martin Cash writes: “As part of the process, the manufacturer of the winning bid — now between Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Saab — must provide a plan whereby they Read more…
The Madrid-based Spanish digital newspaper Público has published a feature article on the Saltillo Migrant Shelter which has been accompanied by the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project since 2014. That article notes: “The shelter is preparing to reopen its doors in the coming weeks, although only at fifty percent of its Read more…
“Niache Nisome” translates as “Let me pursue my education”. On October 26, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project posted: “Murals are effective in communicating messages of change.” “These last weeks, the Women Human Rights Defenders Toolkit Organizers have been using murals to address the rise in child pregnancies during Covid-19.” “To Read more…
PBI-Canada is thrilled that Russ Diabo will be speaking at the upcoming PBI webinar on police violence in Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya and Nicaragua. Russ Diabo is a member of the Mohawk nation of Kahnawake, a well-known policy analyst and adviser, and a prominent critic of the Canadian government’s resource Read more…
On October 22, human rights journalist Brandi Morin tweeted: “My God let’s not repeat the past! OPP have killed Indigenous over land rights in the past-Dudley George, Ipperwash, 25 years ago. Now OPP firing rubber bullets at Six Nations Land Defenders over a housing development on Six Nations Treaty promised Read more…
As Peace Brigades International approaches its 40th anniversary in 2021, we are sharing the reflections of past volunteers from Canada who accompanied at-risk defenders in various PBI project countries over the years. Heidi Mitton, who lives in Nova Scotia, accompanied defenders through the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project for 18 months Read more…