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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...

Beyond net zero by 2050, Canada must commit to a more ambitious 2030 target and upholding the rights of land defenders

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The United Nations has highlighted that climate change severely undermines human rights, that its scope is an unprecedented threat to human rights, and that...

PBI-Colombia accompanies Justice and Peace at the ZRCPA Youth Festival in Putumayo

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On November 10, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project posted on Instagram: “In Putumayo PBI accompanied the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace during the...

Police fire on protest against femicide in Cancun, Mexico

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Photo: Yucatan Times On November 10, The Guardian reported: “Human rights activists in Mexico have expressed indignation after police opened fire on protesters who tried...
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