Yearly Archives: 2022

PBI highlights Guatemala, Colombia and Honduras at Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on non-recurrence

Video of presentation (starting at 1:42:57). On September 16, Kim-Mai Vu of Peace Brigades International presented a statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council...

Gidimt’en land defenders: “We will never stop defending our yintah.”

Photo by Gidimt’en Checkpoint (September 18, 2022). On September 18, Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted: “URGENT UPDATE: The drill they will use to destroy Wedzin Kwa is now...

Tolima departmental assembly rejects contract awarded to Parex Resources over concerns about Ibagué aquifer

Photo: Departmental Assembly session in Tolima. Photo by Suministrada. Ecos del Combeima reports that the Departmental Assembly in Tolima has rejected a contract awarded to...

CEO of Canadian company Frontera Energy comments on Colombia’s oil tax and energy transition plans

Photo: Frontera Energy CEO Orlando Cabrales. Photo by Alexandra Ruiz/ Semana. Orlando Cabrales Segovia, the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian oil company Frontera Energy,...

Two years ago a Colombian judge ordered the release of social leaders criminalized by Canada’s Frontera Energy

Community meeting at La Venturosa, July 1, 2022. On September 16, 2020, El Nuevo Oriente reported that a judge had ordered the release of social...

Environmental defenders present 174,314 signatures in support of Bill 114 banning fracking in Colombia

Video: Box representing signatures is handed to Environment Minister Susana Muhamad. On September 15 a public hearing was held in Bogota on Bill 114, legislation...

PBI highlights the right to water in Honduras, Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala at Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur

Kim-Mai Vu On September 14, Kim-Mai Vu of Peace Brigades International presented at the United Nations in Geneva during the Interactive Dialogue with Pedro Arrojo,...

PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS at meeting with Director of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior

On September 14, CREDHOS tweeted: “CREDHOS , FAPUMUCAN, FEDEPESAN , and ASOVIMAG talk with the Director of Human Rights of the Ministry of the...

PBI-Honduras accompanies ARCAH at mobilization against water privatization at World Bank in Tegucigalpa

On September 14, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “In the National Coalition of Organizations in Defense of Water in Honduras, they deliver a document expressing concern about ‘the...

Coastal GasLink says a “trenchless watercourse crossing” is underway underneath the Morice River (Wedzin Kwa)

Photo of drill pad site by Kris Statnyk. Houston Today reports: “Coastal GasLink has resumed work to run its natural gas pipeline through a tunnel...
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