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PBI seeks language volunteers to assist human rights defenders in Indonesia

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The Peace Brigades International-Indonesia Project is looking for volunteers with English language skills to assist human rights defenders. Many of the human rights defenders they...

Canadian companies interested in fracking in Colombia as ANH president confirms pilot projects will start next year

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Photo: ANH president Armando Zamora Reyes and Colombian energy minister Maria Fernanda Suarez after he was sworn into office, March 12, 2020. On May 20,...

PBI-Guatemala publishes new report: We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz

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The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project published a 64-page report titled We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz. In the introduction to the report,...

PBI-Mexico releases report on its 20 years of accompanying human rights defenders

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The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has released its 2019 annual report that highlights its 20 years of accompanying human rights defenders. In the report, Carla...

United Nations expresses concern about impact of pandemic on Indigenous peoples as First Nations block dam site in Canada

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On Monday May 18, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, a Maya Kaqchikel from Guatemala,...

On militarism, Indigenous land defenders, the Red Deal and the Green New Deal

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With the Canadian government committed to increasing military spending to $32.7 billion a year by 2026-27 and subsidizing the fossil fuel industry with about...

Remembering the 2-year long Peace Camp on Parliament Hill that opposed cruise missiles

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On March 10, 1982, Don Sellar of Southam News reported on a not-yet-public agreement between Canada and the United States for the testing of...

PBI-Canada to mark the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Photo: Murray Thomson at a Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance ceremony that took place by the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada on August 9, 2017....

Peace Brigades International training on Stó:lō territory in British Columbia in 1992

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The April 1992 Peace Brigades International-Canada Newsletter notes that 19 people gathered for a “North America training” from March 26 to April 24, 1992,...

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs sign MOU on title, continue to oppose Coastal GasLink pipeline

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Photo: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks On May 15, The Guardian reported, “A group of Indigenous leaders have struck an unprecedented deal with Canada’s government to...
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