Thank you for supporting the work of Peace Brigades International this year! If you haven’t yet had the chance to make a year-end donation to propel our work in 2022, please consider doing so by December 31st. We have two platforms to make online donations: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/peace-brigades-international-canada/ and https://pbicanada.org/donations/donate-to-pbi-canada/. Thank you again for Read more…
Photo: An F-35 at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. In this Globe and Mail opinion piece, University of Calgary political science professor Rob Huebert argues that Canada must buy F-35s given the threat of Russia’s military capacity and the “emerging battleground” of the Arctic. Among other actions, Huebert notes Read more…
On December 23, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project tweeted: “PBI accompanies @cdpsanjose that #today march in defense of life and protest the murder of leader Huber Velásquez.” Their tweet adds: “This year closes with more than 160 human rights defenders murdered in Colombia. #Urgent guarantees to defend #DDHH [human rights].” Read more…
On December 4, PBI-Colombia accompanied the painting the “Who gave the order?” mural in front of the General José María Córdova Military Academy in Bogotá. The mural was first painted there by three young artists on October 18, 2019, but was covered with white paint within hours by members of Read more…
PBI-Honduras visits Jeremías Martínez in La Ceiba prison, November 2021. This Christmas Eve day we continue to follow the situation of the eight criminalized defenders of the Guapinol River in Honduras. These defenders are being criminally prosecuted for peacefully protesting the installation of an open-pit iron oxide mine in Carlos Read more…
Twitter photo: “Today we march for respect for life and to live in our territory.” On December 23, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “#Today the @cdpsanjose march out of respect for life and to live in their territory in peace. Amid an increase in threats and attacks, the @cdpsanjose expresses its rejection of Read more…
Photo: Earlier this month, Itzam Pineda from the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) presented the report to members of the Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the Territories of Puebla-Hidalgo. Calgary-based TC Energy has been implicated in the violation of Indigenous rights in Canada (notably with its Read more…
As Christmas approaches for many people, we revisit this story told by Ivan Madero of the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS). The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has accompanied CREDHOS since 1994. In this video Ivan explains the intensity of the security situation in the city of Barrancabermeja, Read more…
Photo: CF-18 in Libya, 2011. On December 18, the New York Times reported on the U.S. airstrikes that have claimed the lives of civilians in numerous countries. Aljazeera summarizes: “The report, based on a trove of confidential Pentagon documents covering more than 1,300 reports of civilian casualties, undercuts the US Read more…
On December 20, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project tweeted: “We were recently in the department of Yoro, accompanying the CNTC Progreso. From the CNTC they share that the banks of the rivers affected by the passage of hurricanes #Eta and #Iota last year have not yet been properly fixed.” The Read more…