Yearly Archives: 2021

PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH law firm at hearing on the Hogar Seguro shelter fire

On January 11, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Today PBI accompanied the Human Rights Law Firm at the 4th Criminal Sentencing Court to...

PBI-Mexico accompanied ASMAC supports the fight for Indigenous land rights against mining concessions in Chihuahua

Isela González, director of ASMAC. Photo by Thom Pierce/ The Guardian. The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has accompanied the Sierra Madre Alliance (Alianza Sierra Madre,...

PBI-Mexico accompanied PODER notes Canadian energy companies in report opposed to Mayan Train megaproject

On January 11, Peace Brigades International-Mexico posted: “In this report, the newspaper El País returns to the #ElNegocioDelTrenMaya (Mayan Train Business) investigation into the...

Secwepemc land defender Kanahus Manuel expresses solidarity with Mapuche traditional leader Alberto Curamil

On January 11, Kanahus Manuel tweeted: “This Mapuche freedom fighter Alberto Curamil spent time in my home and Secwepemc Territory with me and my...

PBI-Mexico accompanied People’s Front and Otomi peoples protest PIM “death project” in defence of the Cuautla River

Photo by La Jornada. On January 10, La Jornada reported that the People’s Front in Defence of the Land and Water of Morelos, Puebla and...

PBI-Guatemala posts update on Maya Q’eqchi’ land defender Adolfo Ich Chamán killed for his opposition to a Canadian mine in 2009

On January 8, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on their Facebook page a Toronto Star article that reports: “On Wednesday , the former...

Where does the Canada stand on the Escazú Agreement for environmental defenders in Latin America?

Canada has free trade agreements with at least seven countries in Latin America (including Colombia, Honduras and Mexico) and billions of dollars of direct...

PBI-Canada begins to plan for the COP26 climate summit in Scotland this November

The United Nations Conference of Parties (COP26) climate summit will take place this coming November 1-12 in Glasgow, Scotland. Despite criticisms of the COP process,...

2021 will see the 10th anniversary of the Guiding Principles and the 7th session on a Binding Treaty

Photo: Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, the general coordinator of the PBI-Honduras accompanied Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), is part of...

PBI-Honduras shares Mario Benedetti poem ‘Don’t Give Up’ with hope for a better 2021

On January 4, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted that it “continues working to achieve a 2021 full of social justice and respect for...
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