Likhts’amisyu (Fireweed) Clan tweet: “The #CIRG Unit has returned and are testing the waters again. It looks as though things are beginning to escalate again.” G20 leaders – including Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau – met in Rome on October 30-31, just prior to gathering in Glasgow for the COP26 Read more…
Photo by Jo Blackman. On November 2, Bill McKibben, who is at COP26 in Glasgow, stated: “One of the things I’m doing today is addressing a memorial service for the environment activists that were killed around the world last year, many of them in Latin America…” Global Witness has documented Read more…
More than 225 people have registered for the PBI webinar on November 6 that will feature introductory comments by David R. Boyd. To register for this, click here. On October 8, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted this resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable Read more…
Photo: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the COP26 summit on November 1, 2021; RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territories on January 7, 2019. At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has just promised to cap this country’s oil and gas emissions. Trudeau stated: “We’ll cap oil Read more…
On November 1, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project posted on social media: “We accompany @Justiciaypazcol at a women’s meeting at the #ZRC Perla Amazónica. Promoting the work of women who sow life and protect the Amazon against the extractive impact that contributes to climate change.” PBI-Colombia also tweeted: “We remain Read more…
On November 1, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Yesterday we accompanied @Credhos_Paz in a psychosocial workday in Cimitarra, Magdalena Medio.” Cimitarra is a municipality located about 200 kilometres from Bucaramanga, the capital of the department of Santander. PBI-Colombia has previously explained: “The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Credhos) was founded Read more…
We will be travelling to Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia later this week in response to the call from the Gidimt’en Checkpoint for observers as Coastal GasLink continues to build a fracked gas pipeline on their territory without consent. To read more about this, please see PBI-Canada to travel to Read more…
To hear environmental defenders Danilo Rueda (Colombia), Nelly Madegwa (Kenya) and Valeria Villalobos (Mexico) speak on Saturday November 6, please register here. A new global poll conducted for the BBC World Service finds that people want their government to play a leadership role in setting ambitious targets at the UN Read more…
As COP26 begins, 19 organizations, including Peace Brigades International and Amnesty International in the United Kingdom, have sent an Open Letter to Alok Sharma on the situation of environmental human rights defenders. Sharma is a cabinet minister in Boris Johnson’s government who is serving as President for the COP26 climate Read more…