UN Special Rapporteur to join PBI webinar on COP26

David R. Boyd was instrumental in the United Nations Human Rights Council recently recognizing the human right to a safe and healthy environment.

He commented: “This resolution is especially important for all of the environmental human rights defenders working, often at great personal risk, to safeguard the land, air, water and ecosystems that we all depend on.”

Boyd, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, will be joining PBI accompanied land defenders for a webinar on Saturday November 6 to talk about this newly recognized right and the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

To register for this webinar, click here.

And if you receive this email before Sunday, please join us for a webinar with six PBI brigadistas involved with our projects in Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras.

This is an opportunity to hear what accompaniment involves and how one becomes a field volunteer.

To register for this webinar, click here.

Accompaniments this week

1- PBI-Colombia accompanies Peace Community of San José de Apartadó at meeting with Swedish Embassy

2- PBI-Honduras accompanies ASOPODEHU and Dina Meza at media conference against misinformation

3- PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Verapaz Union of Campesina Organizations (UVOC) at its 41st anniversary of struggle

4- PBI-Honduras accompanies LGBTQI+ rights organization Arcoiris at ‘Vote for Equality’ meeting ahead of November 28 election

5- PBI-Honduras accompanies ZEDEs opponent Christopher Castillo to file complaint after attack

6- PBI-Kenya accompanies inquest hearing in the police killing of 20-year-old Nura Malicha

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

There are also daily posts about our work on Twitter at @PBIcanada.

And if you can support this work with a donation large or small, please click here.

Thank you!

Brent, PBI-Canada