Photo: Virginia Laparra La Hora reports: “The Embassy of Canada in Guatemala joined the rejection of the conviction issued against the former head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI) of Quetzaltenango, Virginia Laparra, and noted that selective prosecution undermines the rule of law, judicial independence and the guarantee Read more…
On December 21, PBI-Guatemala posted on Facebook: “Yesterday, #PBI accompanied the La Puya Peaceful Resistance to the Ministry of Energy and Mines to present the delegates for the pre-consultation stage on the El Tambor mining project.” Background On March 2, 2012, residents from San José del Golfo and San Pedro Read more…
Photo: Tre DeLaronde The Winnipeg Free Press reports: “A group of advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people has shut down public access to Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill, calling for a halt to dumping and a search for human remains.” “The group has vowed to maintain Read more…
Video: David Hartsough speaks about PBI in Guatemala. In this 5-minute video, David Hartsough talks about the repression against Guatemalans in the early-1980s and the accompaniment that was provided by Peace Brigades International to the Mutual Support Group (GAM) beginning in 1985. Hartsough says: “Those women [the leaders of the Read more…
On December 20, PBI-Colombia posted on Instagram: “We accompany @justiciapazcolombia in Jiguamiandó #BajoAtrato where communities from various Humanitarian and Biodiversity Zones are committed to community and environmental education, and prepare proposals to continue building #FutureWithResistence from their territories.” PBI-Colombia has accompanied the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission since 1994.
On December 20, PBI-Colombia posted on Instagram: “We accompany @credhos_paz and we support actions they carry out to respect #IHL [international human rights], #HumanitarianAgreement and ceasefire. In #MagdalenaMedio, guarantees of protection are necessary for communities that continue to be exposed to serious risks and armed conflict.” CREDHOS also tweeted: “In Read more…
As Christmas approaches for many people, we revisit this story told by Ivan Madero of the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS). In this video Ivan explains the intensity of the security situation in the city of Barrancabermeja, Santander in 1995. So much so that he explains Read more…
The Canadian Press reports: “The Department of National Defence has quietly received approval to buy 16 F-35 fighter jets and related gear for a price tag of $7 billion.” “The approval covers an initial set of 16 F-35s, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, as well as spare parts, weapons and various Read more…
This coming year we are planning to: – bring PBI accompanied defenders from Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras to Toronto to participate in activities that challenge the PDAC convention and the mining corporations that impact local communities in Latin America and around the world – bring social leaders criminalized by the Read more…
Thank you for your support of Peace Brigades International! This year we worked very hard to visibilize and strengthen the security situation for the human rights defenders PBI accompanies in Latin America. One of the ways we did this was to organize six webinars with these defenders to provide them Read more…