Yearly Archives: 2020

PBI-Canada welcomes four new Board members!

We are pleased to welcome Sylvia McAdam, Meera Karunananthan, Ailish Morgan-Welden, and Marianna Tzabiras to our Board of Directors! Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum) is from Treaty...

PBI-Guatemala hosts webinar with TZ’KAT Network of Ancestral Healers of Territorial Community Feminism

On July 15, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project hosted a livestream presentation with two members of TZ’KAT. The promotion for this online discussion noted: “We...

PBI-Canada supports Voice of Women day of action on July 24 against the planned $19 billion purchase of fighter jets

Peace Brigades International-Canada supports the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) day of action this coming Friday July 24 against the Government of...

29-year-old environmental defender Marvin Damian Castro killed in Honduras

Agence France Presse reports: “Marvin Damian Castro, 29, was found dead on Monday after he went missing, the Committee of Families of the...

Indigenous groups call on Canadian government to return Tomás Zerón to Mexico in Ayotzinapa case

Photo by Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project. CBC reports: “On June 29, three Indigenous groups in Canada — Idle No More, Defenders of the Land and...

PBI and ISHR respond to UN Special Rapporteur report on judges and lawyers in Honduras

On July 13, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) presented a joint statement at the United Nations developed in collaboration with the Peace...

Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. in Colombian news articles on alleged funding of presidential campaign

A Canadian company that was involved in shelved fracking projects in Colombia with ConocoPhillips and that is now reportedly seeking a contract for one...

Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, PBI and ISHR comment on UN Working Group’s report on visit to Honduras

On July 10, Peace Brigades International, Bertha Isabel Zúniga Cáceres, the general coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras...

Three transnational corporations to submit bids to Canada for $19 billion fighter jet contract by July 31

The deadline for three transnationals – Lockheed Martin, Saab and Boeing – to submit their bids for a $19 billion fighter jet contract with...

Peace Brigades mourns the murder of trans rights activist Escarleth Caceres in Honduras

On July 10 at 8 pm, Escarleth Caceres, a member of the LGBT Rainbow Association, was shot in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She died soon afterwards...
- Advertisment -

Most Read