Yearly Archives: 2022

PBI-Canada receives Global Affairs emails on armoured vehicle sales to Colombia via an Access to Information request

Photo: Colombian police use what appears to be a Toronto-based INKAS-manufactured armoured vehicle to stop buses of delegates travelling to Cali for a popular...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies six defenders of Maya Ch’orti’ ancestral territory as judicialization process against them continues

On June 10, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the 6 criminalized indigenous authorities of Olopa in their evidence presentation hearing. Contrary to what was decided in...

PBI-Honduras accompanies CEHPRODEC at meeting with Tolupán people defending their territory from extractivism

On June 10, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “According to our worldview, our life depends on the forest and the land” We accompanied @Cehprodechn to a meeting with...

New reports highlight dangers faced by environmental defenders opposed to fracking in Colombia

Video: Carolina Agón of CREDHOS speaks at the launch of the CIEDH report. Two key reports released on June 9 – one from the Information...

A legacy gift to PBI-Canada from Jacqueline Neun

Jacqueline Neun May was Legacy Month and as a Board Member of PBI-Canada and long-time supporter of Peace Brigades International, it was fitting that we...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Ancestral Ch’orti’ Authorities of Olopa in their activities with Observatory of Extractive Industries

On June 9, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Ancestral Authorities Ch'orti' of Olopa in their activities with the Observatory of Extractive Industries.” The Extractive Industries Observatory...

The environmental and human rights impacts of RBC and Amerisur/GeoPark oil extractivism in Putumayo, Colombia

Photo: Jani Silva, November 2021. In May 2016, The Guardian reported: “ Silva says she has seen firsthand the effects of big business in Putumayo,...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Espacio OSC at the Dialogue on the protection of journalists and human rights defenders

On June 9, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “This June 8 and 9, we accompany #EspacioOSC and observe the Dialogue for the General Law Initiative for the Prevention...

PBI-Guatemala visits criminalized Poqomchi’ and Q’eqchi’ defenders in Cobán prison

On June 8, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies Jorge Coc, Marcelino Xol and David Maxena criminalized land defenders. We visited the three at the Cobán Preventive...

Parents of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students protest at the Eighth Naval Region base in Acapulco

Photo by Tlachinollan Human Rights Center. On June 6, the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center tweeted: “Mothers and fathers of the 43 students who disappeared on September...
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