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Green MEP Tilly Metz calls on President of Honduras to put an end to the criminalization of Guapinol water defenders

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On August 31, Tilly Metz, a Member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg representing The Greens, tweeted: “Defending the right to water and land against...

PBI-Mexico accompanied Comité Cerezo report documents 1,659 acts of state violence against human rights defenders

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The image reads: Defend human rights in Mexico: Impunity does not end. June 2019 to May 2020 Report. Free political prisoners. On August 24, Urgent...

Why does the Hamilton Spectator use quotation marks for the term land defenders?

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In a recent article about 1492 Land Back Lane, the Hamilton Spectator reported: Several protestors are arrested for failing to comply with the court injunction....

The founding meeting for Peace Brigades International began 39 years ago this evening

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Photo: Hans Sinn and Brent Patterson, Perth, Ontario, September 2019. The founding meeting of Peace Brigades International began 39 years ago this evening on Grindstone...

PBI-Canada observes the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

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Today, Sunday August 30, is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. The United Nations has explained: “On 21 December 2010, by its...

Peace River to be diverted as West Moberly First Nations seeks to stop the Site C dam in court

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Photo: Treaty 8 Elder Jack Askoty stands on an old growth logged tree stump on the Site C construction site in January 2016. Photo...

Three Canadian companies expected to apply in September to advance fracking pilot projects in Colombia

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Photo: A protest in Bogota, Colombia on June 7, 2019 in opposition to fracking. Photo by Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters. On August 27, the Bucaramanga, Colombia-based newspaper Vanguardia...

PBI-Honduras accompanied COPINH says ruling ordering start of trial for DESA executive “a step in the search for justice”

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Photo: On October 10, 2019, PBI-Honduras went to observe the hearing of former DESA executive David Castillo for the murder of Berta Cáceres. That...

Dene land defender Brian Grandbois and the struggle against the Cold Lake air force base

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Photo by Zoe Todd/CBC. If the Canadian government proceeds to spend $19 billion on 88 new fighter jets, a significant number of them will be...

The struggle of Innu land defenders against NATO low level flight training over Nitassinan

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Photo: A protest at the Goose Bay air force base in 1988 in opposition to NATO low level flight training over Nitassinan. Low level flight...
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