Yearly Archives: 2020

PBI-Canada welcomes report on climate change by UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity

The Toronto-based United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, recently presented his report on International solidarity and climate change...

March for Dignity against the killing of social leaders and exploitation by transnational corporations approaches Bogota

On July 18, Contagio Radio reported that the two routes of the March for Dignity will arrive in Bogota on July 20, National Independence...

PBI-Guatemala accompanied UVOC rejects state of siege in the departments of Izabal and Alta Verapaz

Photo: PBI accompanied UVOC at a hearing for a community defender in February of this year. Emisoras Unidas reports: “This Sunday , the Government declared...

Mohawk land defenders arrested for Wet’suwet’en solidarity action face August 11 court hearing

Kanyenkehaka (Mohawk) land defender Kanenhariyo and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Woos. Solidarity actions were organized across the country when heavily armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...

Indigenous Mixe women’s collective in Mexico prepares to reconnect their water supply and reclaim their right to water

The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project accompanies Codigo DH and Educa Oaxaca, two organizations that took part in the Civil Observation mission that reported on...

PBI-Canada mourns the passing of former PBI-Colombia team member Mario Paciolla

Peace Brigades International-Canada extends our love, sympathy and support to our friends and colleagues at the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project and the wider PBI...

PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio_OSC tells the IACHR that 10 defenders have been killed since the start of the pandemic

On July 17, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted about a meeting this week of the OSC Space, which it accompanies. The Espacio_OSC for the...

PBI-Canada notes the criminalization of Indigenous peoples for defending land rights in Saskatchewan and Guatemala

Peace Brigades International-Canada notes similar patterns of the criminalization of Indigenous peoples in Guatemala and the Northern Territories of Turtle Island/Abya Yala (Canada) and...

Canadian union NUPGE calls for end to repression and violence against trade unionists in Guatemala

Larry Brown, the President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), has sent a letter to the President of Guatemala calling...

Colombian court to consider lawsuit that says fracking pilot projects would violate the precautionary principle and human rights

Colombia’s top administrative court, the Council of State, will consider a lawsuit that claims that Decree 328 that allows proposed fracking pilot projects violates...
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