Yearly Archives: 2021

PBI-Nederland to host webinar with Mexican human rights defender David Augusto Jiménez Mireles, June 16

On June 16 at 2 pm EDT, PBI-Nederland will be convening a webinar with Mexican human rights defender David Augusto Jiménez Mireles. David works at...

Canadian Embassy calls on Honduras to ensure judicial independence and due process in the Berta Cáceres trial

On June 8, the Canadian Embassy in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua tweeted: “Canada joins the international community in calling on Honduras to ensure...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies BDH lawyers as Judge rules six ex-soldiers will go to trial for enforced disappearances

On June 9, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanied the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) on the seventh day of the first...

PBI-Guatemala interviews director of the Law Firm for Indigenous Peoples about the criminalization of two land defenders

On June 9, PBI-Guatemala posted: “We talked with Wendy Lopez, director of the Law Firm for Indigenous Peoples about the criminalization of Marcelino Xol...

Maya Q’eqchi’ organization CCDA protests in front of US Embassy as Vice-President Kamala Harris visits Guatemala

On June 7, the CCDA tweeted: “The Campesino Committee of the Altiplano (CCDA) protests in front of the United States embassy in the context...

As National Strike protests fracking, Colombia signs contract with ExxonMobil for Platero project near Puerto Wilches

On June 5, environmental defenders painted their opposition to fracking in front of the buildings of the Minister of Environment and Ecopetrol, the national...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies lawyers at trial of ex-officers on trial for the disappearance of union leaders, students and others

On June 8, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “PBI accompanied the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) on the sixth day of first-statement hearing...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Indigenous mobilization defending their territory in Chihuahua against tourist complex

On June 8, PBI-Mexico posted: “On Saturday, May 29, PBI accompanied a mobilisation of the indigenous communities of Mogotavo, Bacajípare and Huetosachi, of the...

PBI-Honduras notes the importance of international observation of trial in the struggle for justice for Berta Cáceres

On June 8, PBI-Honduras posted about “the importance of international observation to ensure due process” in the trial of one of the alleged intellectual...

228 academics call on Canada to prohibit any future sale of weapons or light-armoured vehicles to Colombia

“They are killing us” Photo: Carlos Ortega/EFE. On June 7, a letter from 228 academics from across Canada called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to...
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