On July 28, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Last week PBI accompanied @dhColombia [the Associated Network of Human Rights Defenders] in Toledo in #Antioquia. On July 16, several local organizations, affected by the megaproject #Hidroituango, gave an account; the next day they delivered a report to the #CommissionDeLaVerdad [the Commission for the Clarification Read more…
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the displacement and dispossession of the Indigenous Q’eqchi’ community of Chicoyogüito from their ancestral lands by an army base then known as Military Zone 21 (now rebranded as Creompaz) in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. More than 200 families were displaced on July 28, 1968, by Read more…
Photo: Allyson Gear of Postville, Nunatsiavut drums in the middle of the highway as about 60-70 people blockade the entrance to the Muskrat Falls project in Labrador. October 19, 216. Photo by Justin Brake. The Canadian government is finalizing an agreement with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador to financially Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has tweeted: “On July 20, a Human Rights Commission was held in Northeast Antioquia with the presence of @CAHUCOPANA with the accompaniment of PBI. On the previous two days, a community strengthening workshop with a territorial approach was held.” The Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence Read more…
On July 27, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “PBI accompanies organizations defending LGTBIQ+ human rights who celebrate the sentence of Vicky Hernández in which the State of Honduras [was found responsible] for violation of the right to life and remember that historically they experience violence, stigmatization and discrimination.” Yesterday, the Arcoiris LGBT Association Read more…
The Mexican Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) has denied an environmental permit requested by Compañía Minera Cuzcatlán, a subsidiary of the Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines, for its proposed San José II project. Mongabay has previously reported: “According to the last MIA that the company delivered in September 2020, Read more…
On July 26, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm at the hearing on the Samococh case. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unavailability of rooms to start the stage of oral and public debates, the hearing was postponed to December 12.” PBI-Guatemala Read more…
Photo from Fairy Creek Blockade. On Saturday July 24, the RCMP arrested another 16 people at the Fairy Creek watershed area on Pacheedaht and Dididaht territories on Vancouver Island bringing the total to 494 arrests since May 17. The forest protectors are there at the invitation of Pacheedaht elder Bill Read more…
On Friday July 23, the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) tweeted: “Police attack a communicator of the Corporation and his lawyers who today July 23 at 11:15 am, were conducting verification of the eviction carried out to 350 homeless families in a human settlement in the Read more…
On July 25, the Status for All rally on unceded Algonquin territories (Ottawa) highlighted: “Full immigration status for all is necessary for global justice.” Syed Hussan of the Migrant Rights Network, who helped organized the march, says: “Migrants are essential to our society, essential to our communities. We work here. Read more…