Monthly Archives: November, 2022

COP27 draft declaration fails to recognize role of environmental human rights defenders

Photo: Environment Canada. The just-released 20-page draft of the final declaration of the COP27 summit fails to reference environmental human rights defenders. The UN Human Rights...

PBI-UK meets with the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water resisting the PIM megaproject in Mexico

On November 15, PBI-UK tweeted: “Defenders from the @fpdtampt tell PBI UK's @BenLeather1 how the strength of their movement coupled with international attention have...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies criminalized Retalhuleu water defenders to sign registry as they await trial

On November 15, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies the members of the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu to the book signing but the book has...

PBI-Mexico accompanies People’s Front on advocacy tour highlighting European water and energy companies in Mexico

Photo: Marcelina Barranco (second from the left, back row) of the People's Front in Defence of Land and Water is part of an advocacy...

PBI webinar with environmental defenders on frontline struggles and the failure of COP27

On November 15, Peace Brigades International brought together environmental human rights defenders from Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Kenya, along with United Nations...

PBI-Honduras accompanies Indigenous Lenca community defending ancestral territory from a 10,000 unit housing development

On November 11, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “PBI accompanies to the Tierras del Padre Lenca Indigenous Community to file an amparo appeal to stop the eviction order...

El Espectador: “The legal dispute between a community and a [Canadian] oil company in the heart of Casanare”

On November 10, PBI-Colombia tweeted: #COP27 Example of #ClimateChange in #Colombia: "They left destruction when they had offered well-being" in the most dangerous country for...

PBI-Canada observes Decolonial Solidarity calling on RBC to defund the Coastal GasLink pipeline

On November 10, Peace Brigades International-Canada observed Decolonial Solidarity painting “RBC STOP THE DRILLING” and “RBC, DEFUND CGL” outside a Royal Bank of Canada...

Despite rebuke from United Nations committee, private security guards and RCMP remain on Wet’suwet’en territory

Photo by Dogwood. Narwhal local journalism initiative reporter Matt Simmons reports on Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks being stopped on Friday November 4 from monitoring construction...

Defenders on COP27

We hope you will be able to join us on Tuesday November 15 at 10 am ET to hear PBI accompanied environmental defenders speak...
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