Photo: Teen Vogue. Today, March 31, is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Egale Canada has tweeted: “#TransDayOfVisibility2021 is about celebrating trans people & progresses made toward true equity for the trans community. Beyond that #TDOV is about renewing our commitment to educate ourselves on trans issues and to raise Read more…
Colombian lawyer Yessika Hoyos Morales came to Ottawa in May 2009 to speak against the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Photo: Toronto Star. The Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement will soon be marking its 10th anniversary given it came into force on August 15, 2011. Canada announced in August 2002 that exploratory Read more…
Millions of dollars are spent on the “policing” of Indigenous land defenders on their traditional and unceded lands in this country. On March 30, 1492 Land Back Lane tweeted: “Today we have learned the OPP have spent $16.3 million dollars on the policing of 1492 Landback Lane from July 19, Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has highlighted that the sugar business in Guatemala means “sweet profits for exporters, bitter impacts for communities.” Abelino Mejia Cancino is a member of the PBI-Guatemala accompanied Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR). Abelino says: “We need people to realize that when they consume sugar, Read more…
Photo: CCALCP director Julia Figueroa speaking in Ottawa during Peace Brigades International advocacy tour, November 5, 2019. When Julia Figueroa and Andrea Nocove from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP) took part in a PBI advocacy tour in Canada in 2019 they highlighted concerns about the forced eradication of Read more…
“The exercise of social leadership and the defense of human rights is, perhaps, the activity with the greatest risk to life, integrity and freedom of people, communities and organizations in Colombia.” – Feliciano Acero, CSPP Earlier this year, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal-Colombia 2021 in the face of persistent impunity Read more…
Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. On March 27, a White House statement announced: “President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders Summit on Climate he will host on April 22 and 23.” The statement adds: “The Summit will reconvene the U.S.-led Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brings Read more…
Video clip from news report. “Death threats against CREDHOS. Leader demand guarantees” On March 26, PBI-Colombia posted: “Today members of CREDHOS say they again have received grave threats for their work in defence of human rights. Security guarantees and protection for defenders of Magdalena Medio.” CREDHOS has also posted: “Media Read more…
On March 25, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted this video of its Acércate (come closer) interview with Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol in prison in Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Caal Xol is a leader of the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón, a collective of 38 Maya Q’eqchi communities in Read more…
On March 26, Geneva Solutions reported: “The UN Human Rights Council renewed this week the mandate of the special rapporteur on human rights and the environment.” “All the way from Vancouver, over Zoom, David Boyd conveys how excited he is to be able to carry on with what he considers Read more…