Yearly Archives: 2022

IACHR-CIDH warns of “structural violence” faced by human rights defenders in Colombia

PBI-Colombia with the IACHR-CIDH, June 2021. On June 3, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “Annual Report of @CIDH highlights very high rates of impunity in serious violations of #human...

PBI-Honduras accompanies COFADEH to former military torture centre in Amarateca that is now a House of Memory

On June 3, PBI-Honduras posted: “Recently, as part of the week of the Detained-Disappeared, we accompanied COFADEH to the House of Memory in Amarateca,...

Land defenders face criminal contempt charges as the struggle against the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline continues

On June 3, Gidimt'en Checkpoint tweeted: Haudenosaunee land defender Layla Staats has also posted this short Instagram video. CBC reports: “The B.C. Prosecution Service plans...

Colombian environmental defenders concerned by court ruling that permits fracking pilot projects to proceed within months

A protest against fracking in Puerto Wilches. Photo by Inigo Alexander. Reuters reports: “Investigative fracking operations in Colombia can go ahead after a court in...

Canadian armoured vehicle company Terradyne and sales to police force implicated in human rights violations

Photo by Terradyne. In July 2013, the Migrant Human Rights Network (la Red DH Migrantes) expressed “its concern about the probable acts of torture, cruel, inhuman and...

Nomadesc message to CANSEC arms show in Canada “We Colombians do not want more weapons”

On June 1, the PBI-Colombia accompanied human rights organization Association for Research and Social Action (Nomadesc) tweeted: “We Colombians do not want more weapons, no...

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation at presentation of 15 recommendations to the president of the Truth Commission

On May 30, the Norwegian Fund for Human Rights tweeted: “We accompany @nydia_erika and victims of forced disappearance of #Colombia in a delivery of recommendations...

PBI-Honduras accompanies CEHPRODEC as municipality of San Esteban declares itself free of open pit mining

On May 31, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “#PBI accompanies @CEHPRODEC at an open town hall of San Esteban (Olancho) where the municipality declared itself free of open...

PBI-Guatemala observes delivery of Biodiversity and Ancestral Knowledge Law in opposition to genetically modified seeds

On May 31, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today we observed the presentation and delivery of the initiative of the Biodiversity and Ancestral Knowledge Law in the congress...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Justice for Our Daughters at remembrance for victims of disappearance, femicide and homicide in Chihuahua

On May 29, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “Under the slogan ‘truth, justice and reparation’, relatives of victims of disappearance, femicide and homicide in the state of #Chihuahua,...
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