Monthly Archives: June, 2021

Peace Brigades International accompanies lawyers and legal processes in Latin America

Photo: PBI-Guatemala accompanied BDH human rights lawyers at a hearing of ex-army officers accused of extrajudicial executions, June 7. Peace Brigades International accompanies lawyers...

PBI-Canada says a NATO climate security centre based in Canada will not help to build climate justice

Trudeau arriving in Brussels for the NATO summit. On June 14, while at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels, Prime Minister Justin...

PBI-Nicaragua accompanies human rights defenders living in exile in Costa Rica

Nicaraguan human rights defender Genesis. The Peace Brigades International-Nicaragua Project accompanies Nicaraguan human rights defenders living in exile in Costa Rica. Since the social crisis of...

PBI accompanies lawyers and legal processes, seeks to connect lawyers in Latin America and Canada

Photo: PBI-Guatemala accompanied BDH human rights lawyers at a hearing of ex-army officers accused of extrajudicial executions, June 7. Peace Brigades International accompanies lawyers...

PBI-Colombia accompanied CCAJAR lawyer receives threat during hearing into police killing of university students

José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CCAJAR) lawyer Yessika Hoyos and her client Alfonso Mora León have received threats. Infobae reports that Alfonso Mora León is...

PBI-Canada asks: “How is the G7 summit responding to the threat of climate change to human rights?”

Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP. Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council about the impacts of climate change, High Commissioner for Human Rights...

PBI-Mexico highlights Inter-American Court of Human Rights hearing for the Raramuri community in Choréachi, Chihuahua

Isela Gonzalez addresses the court. On June 11, PBI-Mexico posted: “The public hearing has already begun before Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Raramuri Community...

PBI-Mexico seeking international observers, the deadline to apply is June 21

On June 2, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project tweeted: “We are looking for members for our team in the field!! Next week of training...

Help PBI-Canada continue our work with a donation!

160+ people registered for our most recent webinar featuring Colombian human rights defenders facilitated by PBI-Canada Board member Ailish Morgan-Welden. This past year we have...

250 water protectors arrested in protest against Canadian-owned pipeline being built on Indigenous territories in Minnesota

Photo by Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters. Nearly 250 people were arrested in Minnesota on Monday June 7 protesting against a Canadian-owned tar sands pipeline being built on...
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