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PBI-Canada observes the International Transgender Day of Visibility and the accompaniment of trans rights defenders

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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...

Marking the 10th anniversary of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

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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...

More than $29 million spent on criminalizing Indigenous land defenders at Wet’suwet’en and 1492 Land Back Lane

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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...

Understanding the relationship between Canada’s sugar consumption and human rights in Guatemala

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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...

Constitutional Court will study review filed by CCALCP on breaches of PNIS voluntary substitution program in Colombia

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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...

PBI-Colombia accompanied organizations participating at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, March 25-27

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"The exercise of social leadership and the defense of human rights is, perhaps, the activity with the greatest risk to life, integrity and freedom...

US President Biden invites Colombia, Mexico, Canada and other countries to a Leaders Summit on Climate, April 22-23

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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...

PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS at media conference on death threats received by organization

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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...

PBI-Guatemala interviews wrongfully imprisoned Maya Q’eqchi river defender Bernardo Caal Xol

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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...

Canadian law professor comments on second term as Special Rapporteur, the Cerrejón mine in Colombia and more

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On March 26, Geneva Solutions reported: “The UN Human Rights Council renewed this week the mandate of the special rapporteur on human rights and...
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