Yearly Archives: 2021

World Bank tribunal rules Colombia not liable to pay $736-million in damages to Vancouver-based Eco Oro Minerals

Photo: When Colombian human rights defenders from CCALCP and CREDHOS visited Canada in November 2019, they went to the Vancouver office of Eco Oro...

Global Witness ‘Last Line of Defence’ report notes death of Regan Russell in Canada

Since 2012, Global Witness has been documenting the deaths of land and environmental defenders around the world. Their most recent report – Last Line of...

Global Witness ‘Last Line of Defence’ report: 227 land and environmental defenders killed in 2020

Photo: Juana Zúñiga is a member of the Municipal Committee of Tocoa, Colón. In 2014, the Guapinol River was endangered when the state allowed...

Inquiry sought into police and military violence against Shuswap land defenders at Ts’Peten

Photo: Shuswap land defender William Jones “Wolverine” Ignace. The siege at Ts’Peten (Gustafsen Lake) within the Shuswap nation began on August 18, 1995 and culminated...

AFN National Chief calls on Canadian government to “stop criminalizing our treaty rights”

Composite photo from this Facebook video posted by AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief RoseAnne Archibald has called on...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Metlapanapa River defender Miguel López Vega at court hearing

Photo from Info Quórum video. On September 10, Info Quórum tweeted: “A representative of Peace Brigades International Mexico (@PBI_Mexico) entered the audience of the environmentalist...

Police investigating the death of Inuk land and water protector Diem Saunders

Photo: Diem speaking on Parliament Hill, February 10, 2018. Photo by Brent Patterson. 29-year-old Inuk defender Diem Saunders was found dead in her home in...

PBI-Colombia accompanies dhColombia at protest marking 1-year anniversary of police killing 13 people

On September 9, PBI-Colombia posted that it “accompanies @dhColombia in its demands for #justice and guarantees for social protest 1 year after the violence...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre at dig for missing 17-year-old boy

On September 9, PBI-Mexico posted: “Today in Ciudad Juárez PBI accompanied @CdhPasodelNorte and @UnidasVerdad in a search and removal of land in...

Peace Brigades International offices in Canada, 1986 to now

On the 40th anniversary of Peace Brigades International, we look back at some of the offices PBI has had in Canada over the years. 345...
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