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PBI endorsed Escazu Agreement ratified in Mexico; Canada should support its implementation

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Peace Brigades International first endorsed the Escazu Agreement in 2018. Mexico News Daily reports: “The Senate has ratified the first regional treaty in the world...

Canada must uphold Indigenous rights at the Climate Ambition Summit

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Canada must uphold Indigenous rights at Climate Ambition Summit An online Climate Ambition Summit for world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, will take place...

Walk 4 Peace and support the work of Peace Brigades International-Canada!

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Peace Brigades International accompanies at-risk human rights defenders, often by physically walking alongside them. In that spirit, we are asking our supporters to help raise...

What are the ways to purchase in Canada coffee produced by CCDA communities in Guatemala?

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Photo: PBI-Guatemala accompanied the CCDA on a visit to communities of Xyaal Kobee and Xa Jobche in November 2019. The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanies...

Frontline reporting and social media provide needed protection to environmental defenders

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The German newspaper Deutsche Welle has published this article on the role journalists play in bringing to light environmental destruction, the threats faced by...

PBI co-organizing webinar with the past and present UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, November 16

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Peace Brigades International is co-organizing a webinar moderated by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) with speakers...

Commission finds RCMP actions against Mi’kmaq land defenders were non-discriminatory, but training on “Indigenous cultural practices” needed

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Photo by Jen Choi/CBC. Following complaints about RCMP tactics against Indigenous land defenders and allies during the protests against fracking on unceded Mi’kmaq territory in...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the CCDA as it continues to face serious security incidents

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Photo: The CCDA is led by two Mayan Q'eqchi women. Lesbia Artola coordinates the organization and Imelda Teyul facilitates the organizing aspects of the...

PBI-Canada regrets human rights defenders not included at Finance in Common Summit

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Peace Brigades International-Canada believes that human rights defenders should have been included at the Finance in Common Summit (November 9-12) and that a presentation...

PBI-Honduras expresses solidarity with Arcoiris and the LGBT community following the murder of Mia Zavala

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On November 10, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted: “ Arcoiris publicly denounces the cruel murder on November 8 of Mia Zavala, an LGTB...
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