Yearly Archives: 2021

Ta’Kaiya Blaney at COP26: “My land and waters are under genocidal illegal occupation”

Still from video by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. At the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Tla’amin land defender Ta’Kaiya Blaney stated: “My land and waters are under the...

Indigenous concerns grow as Ontario pursues mining in the ‘Ring of Fire’ area for electric car batteries

On November 9, CBC reported: “Premier Doug Ford's government … want to lure the big automakers to produce electric vehicles in southern Ontario. A...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Authorities of Olopa in the defence of their territory against mining

On November 11, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanies the Council of Indigenous Authorities of Olopa during its meeting with the organizations Centre...

COP26 draft text fails land and environmental rights defenders

In the lead-up to COP26, Fridays for Future demanded: “Stop the violence and criminalization against indigenous peoples, small farmers, small fisherfolk, and other environmental...

Wet’suwet’en land defender Delee Nikal at COP26: “Femicide is directly linked to ecocide”

Photo from Aljazeera. On November 9, a gathering for murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people was held near the COP26 summit site...

Escuche de las defensorxs acompañadas de PBI sobre la cumbre climática COP26

Hannah Matthews (coordinadora de comunicaciones internacionales de PBI) moderó este panel con David R. Boyd (Relator Especial de la ONU), Juana Ramona Zuñiga (Honduras),...

PBI-Canada welcomes Beatriz and Tessa to the PBI-Colombia accompaniment team

Beatriz (from France), Tessa (from Ireland). On November 10, PBI-Colombia posted: “We warmly welcome our two new colleagues from France and Ireland.” Beatriz says: “Until now,...

PBI-Honduras accompanies organizations presenting complaint about National Protection Mechanism for defenders

On November 10, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted: “Yesterday, PBI accompanied social, peasant and indigenous organizations in filing complaints with the #Public Ministry...

PBI-Colombia accompanies NOMADESC at meeting with ONU Derechos Humanos Colombia

On November 9, UN Human Rights in Colombia tweeted: “Today we meet with the human rights defenders of the association @Nomadesc, finalist in @PremioNalDDHH...

Nahua land defender Miryam Vargas Teutle at COP26 to resist colonialism and carbon offsetting

Photo by CNN. On November 9, CNN reported on Nahua land defender Miryam Vargas Teutle at the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Miryam is...
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