José Bo (Guatemala), Diana Barrios (Colombia) and Reynaldo Domínguez (Honduras). Photo by Selena Pizarro. Translation of El Salto article: “And even if they kill us, we will continue with the dignity of people who defend life” We spoke with Diana Luz Barrios, Reynaldo Domínguez and José Bo, members of different Read more…
This video of Wet’suwet’en land defender Molly Wickham (Sleydo’) message to investors in the Coastal GasLink pipeline was projected by Decolonial Solidarity on the side of an RBC branch in downtown Ottawa on November 5, 2022. The Calgary-based company building the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory without Read more…
Photo by Innu Council of Pessamit. The Montreal Gazette reports: “Two Innu communities on Quebec’s North Shore say they are ‘exasperated’ by the province’s ‘inaction’ when it comes to protecting the woodland caribou, a species threatened by logging.” “They say the Quebec government is not taking seriously ‘the irreversible damage Read more…
Thank you for registering for the Peace Brigades International webinar on the United Nations COP27 climate summit earlier this month. The video of that webinar can be seen here. We had 150 people from 19 countries register for that webinar and more than 300 people have watched the video of Read more…
The San Silvestre wetland provides drinking water to more than 190,000 people in the city of Barrancabermeja, Colombia. It also provides a livelihood to artisanal fishers. But the water is being polluted by the nearby Ecopetrol refinery, encroaching agribusiness (notably livestock that produce nitrogen, phosphorus and pathogens), and landfills that Read more…
On November 28, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm at the hearing of review of alternative measures of Toribio Acevedo Ramirez in the #MilitaryDiaryCase. Preventive detention was revoked and house arrest was ordered with the ability to commute in the municipalities of Zacapa, Guatemala and San Lucas Read more…
On November 28, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies. Today we visited Jorge Coc and Marcelino Xol, criminalized defenders of the land and prisoners at the Coban Preventive Detention Center.” In their December 2021 monthly update, PBI-Guatemala explained: “Jorge Coc Coc and Marcelino Xol Cucul [are] human rights defenders and community leaders Read more…
On November 27, CREDHOS tweeted: “Agnes Callamard Secretary General of @amnistia International is in #Colombia for the first time, knowing the situation of #human rights, management carried out by #Credhos, visiting #Fedepesan and taking a tour of #wetland #SanSilvestre.” Erika Guevara Rosas, the Americas Director for Amnesty International, also tweeted: Read more…
Image from the Peoples’ Front. On November 28, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “#Communiqué international organizations: The signatories express concern about the harassment, surveillance and probable attempted murder of @fpdtampt [the Peoples’ Front in Defence of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala] lawyer and defender Juan Carlos Flores Solis.” The statement PBI-Mexico signed Read more…
Photo: Defenders from Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico with PBI-Spanish State visit the site of the proposed lithium mine near the city of Cáceres in the autonomous region of Extremadura in Spain. Photo by Asociación ICID. On November 27, PBI-Spanish State tweeted: “Because transiting the territories affected by capitalist extractivism Read more…