Yearly Archives: 2021

PBI-Honduras notes the self-organizing of the National Union of Rural Workers on the International Day of Peasant Struggle

PBI-Honduras is marking the International Day of Peasant Struggle, April 17, with the above quote from the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC). It...

As COP26 approaches, the Glasgow Agreement looks to alternative processes to build climate justice

In the lead-up to the United Nations COP26 climate summit this November 1-12 in Scotland, an alternative process toward a Glasgow Agreement is taking...

Red TDT report says aggressions against the Peoples’ Front in Defence of Land and Water in Mexico “multiply day by day”

On April 15, Animal Politico reported: “In the first two years of López Obrador's government, a total of 45 human rights defenders have...

Webinar on April 29 will discuss fracking pilot projects in Colombia following Biden convened Climate Leaders Summit

To register for the webinar with Colombian environmental defenders from the Magdalena Medio region, click here. On April 22-23, Colombian president Ivan Duque and Canadian...

Bilingual webinar will hear from social leaders opposing ExxonMobil and Ecopetrol fracking pilot projects in Colombia

Ivan Madero (left) and Yuli Velasquez (right) will be among the environmental defenders participating in the webinar on Thursday April 29. The National Hydrocarbons Agency...

Canadian company confirms ExxonMobil’s Platero fracking pilot project is the VMM-37 block near Puerto Wilches, Colombia

To hear Colombian social leaders speak about Platero/VMM-37, please register for this bilingual webinar on Thursday April 29. This morning, Toronto-based Sintana Energy Inc. released...

Canadian banks have provided $59.572 billion to fracking companies since the Paris agreement

@QuitRbc projected this image on RBC’s central branch in Montreal on the morning of April 8, the date of the bank’s annual shareholders meeting. Canadian...

Webinar will provide update on proposed law to ban fracking in Colombia in accordance with the Paris agreement

To hear the latest on the proposed law to ban fracking in Colombia, join this webinar on April 29. Photo by Wesley Tomaselli. On August...

Land and environmental rights defenders remain in danger as COP26 set to meet virtually from May 31 to June 17

Four environmental human rights defenders have been killed every week since the COP21 summit in December 2015. The Guardian reports: “On Thursday night, the decision-making...

PBI-Colombia accompanied CSPP and COSPACC launch reports, books and texts in defence of human rights

The Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP) and the Social Corporation for Community Advice and Training (COSPACC) held a GRAN LANZAMIENTO (big launch)...
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