Photo: Grindstone Island where PBI was founded. The founding meeting of Peace Brigades International began 40 years ago this evening on Grindstone Island, which is situated about 100 kilometres southwest of Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory. In his overview of the founding meeting, Daniel N. Clark notes that Read more…
In December 2010, the UN General Assembly expressed its deep concern about the increase in enforced or involuntary disappearances in various regions of the world, including arrest, detention and abduction. The General Assembly also expressed concern about the number of reports concerning harassment, ill-treatment and intimidation of witnesses of disappearances Read more…
On August 30, PBI-Colombia posted: “Today we accompany @Credhos_Paz to a meeting of legal advice with federations of fishermen in Cantagallo in the south of Bolivar. The title of the meeting was ‘The challenges of black communities in the face of the expansion of mining-energy and agro-industrial extractivism’.” Cantagallo is Read more…
Photo of arresting officers from video posted on Twitter. On August 27 at around 9 pm, Secwepemc land defender Kanahus Manuel tweeted: “Protesting at the deputy prime minister @cafreeland office and then a couple hours later I am in handcuffed and sitting in jail at Toronto International Airport. I was Read more…
On August 26, PBI-Honduras posted: “PBI accompanies the protest in Trujillo to demand freedom for the defenders of Guapinol who have been in arbitrary preventive detention for two years. They also demand a date for the oral and public trial.” Seven defenders are being held on pretrial detention in the Read more…
On August 26, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on social media: “Today we accompany the Comité Cerezo México in the planton (blockade/installation) for truth and justice in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) in the context of the international day of the missing detainee.” Read more…
Photo: Elizabeth Wathuti (Kenya), Xiye Bastida (Mexico) and Laura Verónica Muñoz (Colombia) are among the eight climate activists. The Independent reports that eight climate activists have written United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and COP26 President Alok Sharma calling on them to “condemn the killing and harassment of land and environmental Read more…
Photo: Bertha Isabel and Laura Zuniga Cáceres at Radio Canada Internacional studio in Montreal, Canada, August 2016. Following the ruling this week recognizing the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) as a victim in the ‘Fraud on the Gualcarque’ trial, we look back at COPINH’s opposition Read more…
On August 25, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted: “We welcome the decision of the Constitutional Chamber of Honduras to reintegrate @COPINHHONDURAS as a victim in the ‘Fraud on the Gualcarque’.” The trial will look at the irregularities in the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, including acts of corruption in which Read more…
On August 25, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies CCDA Verapaz at a Mayan ceremony for all the attacks, threats and repression suffered by the ancestral authorities and defenders of the land.” The Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) accompanies 150 Maya Q’eqchi’ communities who have been repressed Read more…