Yearly Archives: 2021

Application deadlines nearing for PBI accompaniment volunteers in Honduras and Guatemala

PBI-Honduras and PBI-Guatemala are seeking volunteers to be field brigadistas. Honduras The deadline to apply with PBI-Honduras is April 19. The other key dates in the application...

Canada’s former top bureaucrat testifies fighter jet purchase distracted from allegation of sexual misconduct against top general

In testimony to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Defence yesterday, former Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick suggested that other priorities – including...

Daniel N. Clark on the founding and core principles of Peace Brigades International

In this 55-minute video, Peace Brigades International co-founder Daniel N. Clark talks about the beginnings of PBI and its core philosophies of making space...

Colombian Petroleum Industry Workers Union (USO) joins alliance to stop controversial fracking pilot projects

The USO flag can be seen on the left in a recent protest against fracking in Puerto Wilches. On April 6, Reuters reported: “Colombia's largest...

PBI-Kenya helps organize town hall forums on addressing SGBV against teenage girls in Nairobi’s urban settlements

On April 6, PBI-Kenya posted: “In March, the WHRD Toolkit Organizers held town hall forums with 125 teenage girls across the settlements to...

Five key questions remain unanswered about the purchase schedule of Canada’s new fighter jets

Composite photo by Airforce Technology. There are crucial questions that remain unanswered about the timing of the proposed $19 billion purchase of new fighter jets. The...

CRY-GEAM calls on international community to be attentive to human rights violations with fracking in Colombia

CRY-GEAM photo. On March 31, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) provisionally approved a proposal from ExxonMobil to develop its Platero fracking pilot project in the...

COPINH marks the 8th anniversary of the blockade at the Oak against the Agua Zarca dam

"8 years after the taking of the Oak in defense of the Gualcarque River" In Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads and an Indigenous...

Maya Q’eqchi defender Bernardo Caal Xol in court today seeking an annulment of his wrongful imprisonment

"The hearing will be held in the Supreme Court of Justice for the appeal of annulment where magistrates of the criminal chamber will listen...

George Lakey, a PBI “unarmed bodyguard” for threatened lawyers in Sri Lanka

George Lakey is a well-known Quaker peace activist and writer. He was also a Peace Brigades International activist in Sri Lanka. Lakey was among a...
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