Yearly Archives: 2021

PBI-Kenya shares alert about protests following the police killing of John Kiiru in Kayole

On August 19, PBI-Kenya tweeted: “The Social Justice Centres Working Group alerts about ongoing demonstrations in Kayole.” The Social Justice Centres Working Group (@UhaiWetu -...

PBI-Honduras accompanies National Union of Rural Workers at court hearing for three criminalized farmworkers

Photo by COFADEH. On August 19, PBI-Honduras posted: “PBI accompanies the CNTC La Paz to the audience for individualizing the penalty of leaders of...

PBI-Canada Board member Heather Neun reports back on visit to Colombia, August 24

Peace Brigades International-Canada Board member Heather Neun participated in the International Observation Mission for the Guarantees of Social Protest and Against Impunity in Colombia...

#CambiémoslaYa calls for profound reforms to the Mining Law in Mexico

Short video on the #CambiémoslaYa website. On August 18, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported: “Mining in the country has left at least 374 socio-environmental...

75 organizations say Guapinol River defenders should be released from Honduran prison by August 26

On August 11, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project visited seven of the Guapinol environmental defenders in the Olanchito prison. The seven share the same cell...

PBI-Kenya supports Missing Voices coalition’s efforts to stop extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances by the police

Photo: On March 24, 2021, Missing Voices released its 2020 report on police killings and enforced disappearances in Kenya. On August 17, The Guardian reported:...

PBI-Honduras present as five criminalized Lenca water protectors opposed to Progelsa dam receive provisional dismissal

On August 17, PBI-Honduras posted: “Yesterday, provisional dismissal was issued for defenders of the Lenca Indigenous Council of Reitoca, they were arrested for their...

Giniw Collective meets with UN Special Rapporteur Lawlor, discuss Canadian company funding police in Minnesota

Photo: Tara Houska (Giniw Collective), Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth), Osprey Orielle Lake (Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network), Mary Lawlor (UN Special Rapporteur...

CCAJAR calls on Honduran judicial authorities to recognize COPINH as a victim in the Fraud on the Gualcarque trial

COPINH tweet: “Press conference: Positioning of COPINH before the start of the ‘Fraud on the Gualcarque’ trial. COPINH and the Río Blanco community continue...

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nomadesc at Intercultural University of the Peoples in Cali

On August 16, PBI-Colombia posted: “We are proudly accompanying the Association for Research and Social Action (Nomadesc) as part of this great initiative from...
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