Brett Forester of CBC reports: “A federally owned pipeline company is withholding records that would expose its dealings with private security and intelligence firms by citing blanket exemptions under access-to-information law.” He adds: “Calgary-based Trans Mountain responded to a request to see its contracts with these agencies, along with reports Read more…
Photo: Land defenders Layla Staats and Skyler Williams outside the Cayuga courthouse. Photo by Bobby Hristova/CBC. The sentencing hearing for criminalized Haudenosaunee land defender Skyler Williams will continue in January 2023. CBC reports: “Williams testified last week, answering questions from [Justice Gethin] Edward about why he has taken part in Read more…
Photo: City, provincial and federal police and a 3 metre (10 foot) high fence will surround the Palais des Congrès in Montreal where the COP15 biodiversity summit will take place. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette. The COP15 summit will take place at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal starting this Read more…
Photo: “MoveUP delegate Colin Sanderson speaking in support of a MoveUP submitted resolution calling on the prov. and federal governments to disband the Community-Industry Response Group and require on-site Indigenous civilian oversight on RCMP operations on Indigenous lands.” Resolutions related to Indigenous land defenders were considered at the British Columbia Read more…
Photo by Mike Graeme. An action in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders was held at the BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) in Victoria on Lkwungen territory on November 24. The outreach for the action highlighted: “After many militarized raids, ongoing criminal charges against Indigenous land defenders and supporters, and Read more…
Photo: CIDH photo. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH-IACHR) reports: “Representatives of Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Peru participated on November 21 in Quito, Ecuador, in a meeting of National Protection Mechanisms for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists in Latin America. The meeting, organized by UN Human Rights and Read more…
On November 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm in the intermediate stage hearing of the judicial process against Cristobal Pop, president of the fishermen’s union [of El Estor, Izabal], and the journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc, which has been suspended again.” Both Pop and Choc are Maya Read more…
On November 24, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “PBI accompanies @Arcah_hn [the Honduran Alternative for Community and Environmental Vindication] in filing a complaint with the Public Ministry in the framework of the ZEDE [Economic Development and Employment Zones]. We are concerned about the constant pressure and risk situations that the organization is going Read more…
Greenpeace photo. The Bank of Montreal (BMO) recently signed a letter that states: “The process of continuously conducting robust human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) is a core requirement for businesses and investors in fulfilling that responsibility, as framed in the recognized international standards of the UN Guiding Principles Read more…
About 500 metres east of Parliament Hill in Ottawa there is an air grate that the houseless have used to keep warm as it gets colder outside. The Hope Encampment says: “We set camp here for about a month and a half because there is heat coming from the grate Read more…