Monthly Archives: March, 2022

Organizations express concern following the permit granted to Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver Mines in Mexico

The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, MiningWatch Canada and the Blue Planet Project are among the organizations that have signed this statement: “We are greatly concerned...

Wet’suwet’en Chief Na’Moks calls for RCMP to leave the Yintah before talks with Canadian and British Columbia governments

Photo: Hereditary Chief Na’Moks addresses the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, April 22, 2019. On March 14, Postmedia reported that...

PBI highlights concerns about the right to food in Honduras and Colombia at UN Human Rights Council

On March 14, Peace Brigades International's advocacy coordinator Kim-Mai Stéphanie Vu presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland during an...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Council of Communities of Retalhuleu to Public Ministry as court hearing is postponed

On March 14, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies members of the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR) criminalized for defending the right to water to...

Brigadista webinar, March 20

Want to be a PBI field volunteer? This coming Sunday March 20 at 2:30 pm EDT join us to hear from Clara van Tienhoven, the...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Indigenous consultation in the town of Santa Maria Zacatepec

Photo by IEE Puebla. On March 13, La Jornada Oriente reported that with a total of 526 votes from the 5,000 residents in the town...

The PBI-North America Project on structural violence against Indigenous peoples

Photo: “I helped to start the North American Project together with Alaine Hawkins from Canada, and other returned volunteers from the Guatemala Project (pictured...

UN report identifies Aamjiwnaang First Nation as a pollution “sacrifice zone” in Canada

Facebook photo of Aamjiwnaang water protector Vanessa Gray. On March 10, The Guardian reported: “A United Nations expert has warned of the creation of...

Indigenous Rarámuri forest defender José Trinidad Baldenegro murdered in Coloradas de la Virgen, Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

On March 11, the Associated Press reported: “An Indigenous rights activist who campaigned against illegal logging has been killed in northern Mexico, prosecutors say,...

European Parliament condemns the killing of human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico

On March 11, Espacio OSC tweeted: “Yesterday, the European Parliament issued an urgent resolution on Mexico, due to the most recent attacks and murders...
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