Monthly Archives: May, 2021

PBI-Honduras accompanies COPINH at mobilization against projects lacking free, prior and informed consent

On May 18, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted: “Yesterday we accompanied COPINH in a mobilization carried out in Tegucigalpa for the defense of...

Calgary-based Gran Tierra comments on the impact of the national strike on its oil operations in Colombia

Image: Gran Tierra is based in Calgary, Canada. The Colombian non-governmental organization Temblores has reported that there have been at least 39 homicides and 2,110...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Chinautla Multisector at Community Development Council (Cocodes) election

On May 17, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on their Facebook page: “On Sunday, PBI accompanied the Multisectoral Chinautla in the assembly for...

More than 130 environmental organizations support the National Strike, call for an end to fracking and glyphosate spraying

Andrea Nocove (CCACLP), Ivan Madero (CREDHOS) and Julia Figueroa (CCACLP) arrive on Vancouver Island, November 2019. When representatives of the Regional Corporation in Defence of...

PBI-Kenya visits Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre in the Kibera settlement in Nairobi

PBI-Kenya at the Feminist for Peace Rights and Justice Centre. On May 17, the Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project posted: “The PBI team paid visits to...

Reports of Colombian police committing sexual violence against women at the national strike mobilizations

Image from Red de Derechos Humanos Francisco Isaias Cifuentes. There are numerous reports of sexual violence being committed by the police against women participating in...

55 Members of Congress denounce police brutality in Colombia, call for a freeze on military sales

On May 15, the Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported: “In a harsh letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony John Blinken, U.S. congressmen...

PBI-Colombia accompanies NOMADESC in Buga verifying cases of the disproportionate use of force by the police

On May 14, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Today we accompany NOMADESC in the Aures neighborhood in Buga verifying cases of vulnerability of human rights related to...

Relatives of Aazhoodena land defender Dudley George have begun to reoccupy their ancestral lands in Ontario

There is not a lot of information at this point, but Blackburn News reports: “Relatives of the late Dudley George moved onto the former...

Colombia webinar follow-up

Thank you for registering for our most recent webinar on fracking, extractivism and the risks faced by environmental defenders in the Magdalena Medio region...
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