On March 2, Peace Brigades International spoke at the Human Rights Council in response to the presentation made by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food. UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri noted that the world had been falling behind on fully realizing the right to food even before the Read more…
UPDATE: The video of this webinar is now available here. Our article written prior to the webinar: On March 4, the International Human Rights Network (RIDH) and Peace Brigades International (PBI) will host a virtual side event on the water crisis in Colombia during the 46th session of the Human Read more…
Photo: Gallagher was sentenced to 90 days in jail. Photo by Rueben George. Indigenous land defender Stacy Gallagher has been sentenced to 90 days in prison by Judge Shelley Fitzpatrick of the B.C. Supreme Court. This Vice news article reports that the sentence relates to Gallagher conducting ceremony in November-December Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Spanish State signed this joint letter to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation on the fifth anniversary of the murder of Indigenous Lenca defender Berta Caceres in Honduras. Other signatories to the letter include Amnesty International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Front Line Read more…
Video: “We wish to see abolishment of all police, of all police forces, on all Native lands.” The Braided Warriors are filing a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) over the police violence they experienced last month while in ceremony calling on insurance Read more…
Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. Today is the fifth anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, the co-founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). PBI-Canada remembers Cáceres on this day by sharing an English translation of this speech that she gave less than a year before Read more…
On March 1, the Sierra Madre Alliance (ASMAC) tweeted: “Eleven years after the cowardly murder of the defender Ernesto Rábago, the events remain unpunished, @ASMACChihuahua demands #JusticiaParaErnestoRábago.” Norte Digital has explained: “Ernesto Rábago Martínez was a defence lawyer for the territory who supported the Baquéachi community, which was the victim Read more…
Photo by Koozma J. Tarasoff On March 1, PBI-Canada helped deliver this letter to the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa expressing concern about Canadian arms exports to Saudi Arabia. Canada has approved the export of $14 billion in light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to Saudi Arabia. Some of the LAVs are Read more…