The families of the Guapinol water defenders wait for justice outside the courthouse in Tocoa, Honduras. Photo by Radio Progreso. The criminalization of the Guapinol water defenders in Tocoa, Honduras can be related back to the Canadian-backed General Mining Law. MiningWatch Canada has stated: “The General Mining Law was developed Read more…
Photo from a Global Day of Action against Fracking protest in Bogota on December 11, the eve of the 5th anniversary of the conclusion of the Paris climate summit. In August 2019, Reuters reported that Natalia De la Calle, the Chief Executive Officer of Colombian Oil Pipeline (Oleoducto de Colombia), Read more…
Photo: A community blockade in 2016 protested against the Canacol and ConocoPhillips owned Picoplata 1 fracking project near San Martin, Cesar. As noted on its website, Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. is “the largest independent onshore conventional natural gas exploration and production company in Colombia, supplying approximately 25% of the country’s Read more…
The eight Guapinol water defenders will be in court today at 9 am Honduras time (10 am EST) in the city of Tocoa in northern Honduras. The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted: “This Friday, December 18, the hearing to review measures for the defenders of the Guapinol River will Read more…
Field brigadistas play a crucial role in fulfilling the mission of Peace Brigades International to physically accompany threatened human rights defenders. This week, PBI-Colombia posted about the new field brigadistas that have just arrived in Colombia to do this work over the next 18 months. We welcome and extend our Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project and Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom have just released a new 14-minute documentary titled Ghetto Justice. That documentary can be seen by clicking here. It raises many issues including mobilizing for social justice, the human right to water, and police killings in the informal settlements of Read more…
On December 16, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted: “This Friday, December 18, the hearing to review measures for the defenders of the Guapinol River will be held, they have been in custody for more than 15 months. It is essential to ensure the publicity, transparency and observation of this Read more…
On December 15, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Yesterday PBI accompanied the Bufete Jurídico de Derechos Humanos [BDH] in the #CasoHogarSeguro hearing to review the coercion measures applied to Anahí Keller, former Deputy Secretary of the Secretariat of Social Welfare, and Santos Torres, former director of the Safe Home. Read more…
In a new PBI-Colombia video, NOMADESC president Berenice Celeita talks about the role megaprojects and the lack of respect for Indigenous rights play in the level of violence happening in southwestern Colombia. That area of the country includes the departments (provinces) of Valle de Cauca (where Buenaventura is located), Cauca, Read more…
Update – Avispa Midia reports: “Following the blockade of federal highway 175, which links the Central Valleys of Oaxaca with the tourist areas of the coast, on the morning of this Monday (14), 16 communities that are part of an anti-mining front in the state won an audience with the Secretariat Read more…