The United Nations COP26 climate summit will start on October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland. We will be working with PBI front line projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, the defenders we accompany there and allies to highlight that the Glasgow Pact must include mechanisms for the protection of defenders. Read more…
On September 27, The Guardian reported: “Vital United Nations climate talks, billed as one of the last chances to stave off climate breakdown, will not produce the breakthrough needed to fulfil the aspiration of the Paris agreement, key players in the talks have conceded.” “The UN, the UK hosts and Read more…
Still from video. On September 27, Gidimt’en Checkpoint posted: “Early in the morning on September 25th a supporter was tazered and arrested on the road to the drill pad site where CGL [Coastal GasLink] plans to drill under Wedzin Kwa [river], where they would destroy precious salmon habitat and make Read more…
Still from video posted by Smogelgem. On Saturday September 25, Smogelgem, the Hereditary Chief of the Fireweed Clan of the Wet’suwet’en People, tweeted: “The Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs walked on to an occupied proposed drill site for CGL [Coastal GasLink]. The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] & CGL attempted to enforce Read more…
Photo: Secwepemc land defender Mayuk Manuel assaulted by Trans Mountain pipeline worker, September 15, 2021. The Canadian government-owned pipeline is being built on Secwepemc territory without their free, prior and informed consent. On September 25, The Guardian reported: “Women must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 Read more…
Photo: Peace Brigades International accompanied environmental defenders Sandra Calel (Guatemala), Juan Carlos Flores Solis (Mexico), Andrea Regina Pineda (Honduras) and Ivan Madero Vergel (Colombia). At the United Nations COP21 climate summit in Paris in December 2015, the world committed to pursuing ways to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 Read more…
Photo: “Yanette Bautista cries out for justice in front of the JEP accompanied by frontline members.” Source: J. Marcos / Mª Ángeles Fernández. On September 22, CTXT published this feature length article in Spanish: Las víctimas que Colombia no quiere. Key excepts from the article include: In Colombia, the number Read more…
On September 22, Peace Brigades International presented at the 48th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. PBI’s Kim-Mai Stéphanie Vu stated: “We welcome the reports of the Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. We support the recommendations aimed at the Read more…
On September 22, PBI-Honduras posted: “This past weekend we were in San Pedro Sula [the country’s second largest city after Tegucigalpa] accompanying Arcoíris, the LGTB Association of Honduras and other LGTBI groups in the country in demanding recognition of the Gender Identity Act and the Equality and Equity Act.” Equality Read more…
This week, the federal election concluded in Canada. Next up, the House of Commons is scheduled to resume sitting on October 18. We will be working to identify the new and returning Members of Parliament we can work with to advance protection strategies for the human rights defenders who Peace Read more…