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PBI-Canada highlights the concerns of three Colombian human rights groups about port expansion in Buenaventura

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Photo: In February, PBI-Colombia accompanied the Inter-Church Commission on Justice and Peace as concerns were expressed about the bodies that have been dumped by...

Observatory posts Urgent Intervention expressing concern about death threats against CREDHOS, FEDEPESAN and Aguawil

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has posted this URGENT INTERVENTION (in Spanish) on the following situation in Colombia. The Observatory notes...

Ramsey Clark, a member of PBI’s first Central America project committee, dies at 93

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Ramsey Clark in 1990. Photo by Mark Pesetsky/AP. Ramsey Clark, who was a member of PBI’s first Central America project committee in 1982, has passed...

Migrant rights defenders concerned by new agreements that further militarize the borders of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

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Mexican soldiers in Chiapas near the border with Guatemala. Photo by Isaac Guzman/Agence France Presse. On April 12, Common Dreams reported: “Human rights defenders expressed...

PBI-Mexico accompanies the OFPC as coal extraction intensifies in the state of Coahuila

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PBI-Mexico with OFPC director Cristina Auerbach. The Associated Press reports Mexico’s state-owned electrical power company intends to buy 2 million metric tons of coal from...

Vote against rare earth mine in Greenland could have implications for F-35 fighter jets

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A Danish F-35 fighter jet. The EU Observer reports: “Late Tuesday (6 April) evening, expectant Greenlanders received the election results for Inatsisartut, Greenland's parliament. The...

Maya-K’iche defender Lolita Chávez speaks about extractivism and the “false green” REDD+ plan

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Chávez during the Defend Dissent Tour in Canada, 2013. Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic is a member of the Council of K'iche Peoples for the Defence...

Will the purchase of new fighter jets once again be an election issue?

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Three transnational corporations – Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Saab – are currently bidding for a $19 billion contract to sell 88 fighter jets to...

PBI-Guatemala meets with the CCDA to discuss security situation during visit to Cobán, Alta Verapaz

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On April 10, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Last week we traveled to Cobán to present ourselves to different departmental authorities and to visit the members of...

PBI-Colombia accompanies dhColombia at protest calling on international community to speak against police violence

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On April 9, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Today, PBI accompanied dhColombia with organizations of state victims in a sit-in in front of the Consulate of the...
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