Monthly Archives: February, 2022

Mexican police and National Guard raid the Indigenous Nahua occupied Danone bottled water plant in the city of Juan C. Bonilla

Video still from El Universal Puebla. La Jornada de Oriente reports: “At 1:20 a.m. on Tuesday , agents of the National Guard and the State Police...

PBI-Mexico accompanies journalists in Chihuahua protesting the murder of 28 colleagues since 2000 and the five deaths this year

On February 14, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “This afternoon we accompanied the call for communicators and journalists in the state of #Chihuahua, in front of the...

Wet’suwet’en water protectors in court on March 14 to hear if CGL will pursue criminal charges

Last week, Gidimt’en Checkpoint noted: “Over thirty water protectors are appearing in BC Supreme Court in Prince George on Monday February 14 after the RCMP...

PBI-Guatemala meets with AVECHAV for update on 21 members facing court date on March 30

In their January 2022 Monthly Information Package, PBI-Guatemala reports: “Regarding our accompaniment of the Residents Association of Chicoyogüito, Alta Verapaz (AVECHAV), we held a meeting...

Wet’suwet’en land defenders in court in Prince George following militarized RCMP invasion of their territory

Photo: Haudenosaunee land defenders Skyler Williams, Layla Black and Logan Staats were among those arrested on November 18, 2021. Today, February 14, we are...

PBI observes “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa in context of violence and harassment of journalists, racialized communities

On Sunday February 13, PBI-Guatemala and PBI-Canada observed the “Freedom Convoy” at Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa as well as a community-organized blockade on...

PBI-Guatemala comments on the UN Guiding Principles in the context of extractivist and exclusionary economic models

Maria Caal Xol PBI-Guatemala recently published a feature article titled: 10th anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: challenges for their implementation...

PBI-Mexico has highlighted “notable deficiencies and concerning failures” in protection mechanism for journalists

Photo: PBI-Mexico at a mobilization in Chihuahua for slain journalists, January 26. On February 11, the Associated Press reported: “Even as Mexicans lament the killings...

PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS at press conference on threats by armed actors against 45 people

On February 11, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We accompanied @Credhos_Paz at a press conference on the serious increase in the presence of armed groups in Magdalena...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies six Indigenous authorities at court hearing for their opposition to antimony mine

On February 11, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted: “Today PBI accompanied the six criminalized indigenous authorities of Olopa during their hearing at the...
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