Monthly Archives: January, 2023

Indigenous leaders call on Saskatchewan government to stop the planned auction of Crown land on January 31

Photo: Onion Lake Cree Nation Chief Henry Lewis. Photo by Lindsay Newman/980 CJME. Indigenous leaders are calling on the Saskatchewan government to stop a planned...

PBI-Canada recognizes the work of Colombian lawyers on the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer

Photo: PBI-Canada Board member Heather Neun with the Luis Carlos Pérez Lawyers Collective Corporation (CCALCP) in August 2022 during the VII International Caravan of...

How much will Canada spend on bombs, missiles and bullets for its new F-35 warplanes?

Photo: US Marine Corps. The U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin has highlighted: “The F-35 carries weapons internally in stealth configuration, or externally in permissible environments...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies defenders criminalized as they seek return of their ancestral lands from an army base

On January 23, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies 21 members of the Association of Neighbors of Chicoyogüito, Alta Verapaz to a court in Cobán where...

CRCC “exploring options” after receiving nearly 500 complaints about the RCMP C-IRG resource extraction protection unit

The Ada'itsx (Fairy Creek) blockade against logging on Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territories. Photo by Mike Graeme. The CBC reports: “The is weighing its options...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies family of Luz Leticia to hearing of ex-police officer accused of her enforced disappearance

On January 20, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the family of Luz Leticia to the last hearing of the first statement of ex-police Juan Francisco Cifuentes...

Weelaunee Forest defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran opposed to “Cop City” shot dead by Georgia police

Photo from Unicorn Riot. A 26-year-old forest defender named Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran has been killed by Georgia police southeast of Atlanta. Truthout reports: “An activist was...

What weapons are deployed by the RCMP against Indigenous land defenders?

Wet’suwet’en land defender Molly Wickham: “Get that gun off me! Get your gun off me! Lower your gun!” Video still from Yintah Film. What weapons were the...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Human Rights Law Firm at trial of state officials and police in the deaths of young women at shelter fire

On January 19, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm to the hearing for the start of the debate of the #SafeHomeCase. In...

PBI-Honduras amplifies Plataforma Alert about the murder of environmental defender Omar Cruz Tomé in Tocoa, Colon

Photo: La Prensa. PBI-Honduras has amplified an Alert from the Plataforma Agraria Honduras (Honduras Agrarian Platform) that says: “The president of the Los Laureles Agricultural Cooperative...
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