Yearly Archives: 2021

PBI-Guatemala accompanies hearing of former Minister of National Defense accused of murder in the #CasoDiarioMilitar

On June 23, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanied in the second session of the First Statement of the former General Marco Antonio González Taracena syndicated...

Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability launches model legislation for due diligence and corporate accountability

Still from video of media conference launching model law. On May 31, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) released draft model legislation to provide...

PBI joins with 300+ organizations asking UN Human Rights Council to call on Colombia to cease violence against protests

Video statement to UN Human Rights Council. Peace Brigades International is one of 306 organizations to ask the United Nations Human Rights Council to call...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Human Rights Law Firm at #CasoDiarioMilitar hearing at the Military Medical Centre

On June 22, PBI-Guatemala posted: “At the Military Medical Center, PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) in the first hearing of another...

UN High Commissioner expresses concern about human rights violations by Colombian state security forces

Video of Bachelet speaking about Colombia. On June 21, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presented an Update to the 1st...

Kanehsatà:ke land defender Ellen Gabriel on ongoing land theft and colonial genocide in Canada

On June 21, Kanehsatà:ke land defender Ellen Gabriel was interviewed by CTV This Morning. That six-minute interview can be seen here. In it, Gabriel says:...

Ratification of the Escazu Agreement for environmental defenders, the bill to prohibit fracking sunk in the Colombian Congress

RCN Radio: “In Bogotá's Plaza de Bolívar, environmental activists donned dozens of shoes with red ink, symbolizing the environmental leaders killed in Colombia, as...

Secwepemc land defender Kanahus Manuel criminalized as she defends her ancestral territory from Canadian-owned tar sands pipeline

Indigenous land defenders are criminalized around the world for their defence of ancestral territories against dispossession and extractivism. Front Line Defenders has reported that...

The CSPP wins key court ruling in prosecution of Colombian police officer in the death of Dilan Cruz

Jenni Alejandra Medina holds a photo of her son Dilan. Yesterday, the families of Black and Indigenous peoples killed by the police in Canada held...

BLM media conference outside Prime Minister’s Office on police violence against Black and Indigenous peoples

Photo: Abdiaziz Abdi speaking about his brother Abdirahman, a Somali-Canadian killed by Ottawa police in July 2016. Black Lives Matter Toronto tweeted: “On June 19,...
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