Yearly Archives: 2022

PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS as Amnesty International Secretary General visits the San Silvestre wetlands

On November 27, CREDHOS tweeted: “Agnes Callamard Secretary General of @amnistia International is in #Colombia for the first time, knowing the situation of #human rights,...

PBI-Mexico signs joint declaration re: probable attempted murder of Juan Carlos Flores Solís, lawyer for the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water

Image from the Peoples’ Front. On November 28, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “#Communiqué international organizations: The signatories express concern about the harassment, surveillance and probable attempted murder...

PBI-Spanish State accompanies environmental defenders on visit to site of proposed lithium mine near Cáceres, Extremadura region

Photo: Defenders from Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico with PBI-Spanish State visit the site of the proposed lithium mine near the city of Cáceres...

Canadian government owned pipeline company conducts physical and open-source surveillance of Trans Mountain opponents

Brett Forester of CBC reports: “A federally owned pipeline company is withholding records that would expose its dealings with private security and intelligence firms...

Mohawk land defender Skyler Williams, criminalized for his defence of Haudenosaunee territory, returns to court in January 2023

Photo: Land defenders Layla Staats and Skyler Williams outside the Cayuga courthouse. Photo by Bobby Hristova/CBC. The sentencing hearing for criminalized Haudenosaunee land defender Skyler...

COP15 biodiversity summit to be fenced off amid concerns its 30×30 initiative promotes militarized conservationism

Photo: City, provincial and federal police and a 3 metre (10 foot) high fence will surround the Palais des Congrès in Montreal where the...

Resolutions at BC Federation of Labour convention call for C-IRG to be dismantled, force not to be used in Indigenous disputes

Photo: “MoveUP delegate Colin Sanderson speaking in support of a MoveUP submitted resolution calling on the prov. and federal governments to disband the Community-Industry...

Action challenges BC Oil and Gas Commission, the agency that permitted the Coastal GasLink pipeline

Photo by Mike Graeme. An action in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders was held at the BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) in Victoria on...

PBI participates in UN/IACHR regional meeting in Ecuador on new strategies to protect human rights defenders

Photo: CIDH photo. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH-IACHR) reports: “Representatives of Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Peru participated on November 21 in Quito, Ecuador,...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Human Rights Law Firm at hearing for criminalized Indigenous journalist and fishermen’s union president

On November 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm in the intermediate stage hearing of the judicial process against Cristobal Pop, president...
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