Monthly Archives: January, 2023

Amnesty International calls for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to leave Wet’suwet’en territory

Photo: On January 7, 2023, PBI-Canada was present as activists in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en struggle held this banner on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. On...

Guapinol River defenders Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla opposed to EMCO-Los Pinares mining project murdered in Honduras

Bufete Justicia para los Pueblos (Justice for the Peoples Law Firm) has tweeted:  “Aly Domínguez was part of the group acquitted after presenting himself...

Canadian Defence Department says it has conducted an environmental impact assessment on its purchase of F-35 warplanes

Global News reports that Jessica Lamirande, a spokesperson for the Department of National Defence, says that an assessment has been conducted on the “environmental...

Questions continue about civilian casualties resulting from Canadian airstrikes in Iraq and Syria

Photo: A CF-18 over Iraq, March 4, 2015. Ottawa Citizen journalist David Pugliese reports on Canadian military participation in a U.S. military team code-named Talon...

Federal and provincial governments have spent $50 million on RCMP C-IRG repression of land defence struggles

Photo: RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory, January 7, 2019. Photo by Michael Toledano. Ottawa-based CBC journalist Brett Forester reports: “An RCMP squad charged with policing...

Criminalization of land defenders continues as 4th anniversary of RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory approaches

Photo: A land defender is tackled to the ground by an RCMP officer on January 7, 2019. Photo by Jesse Winter/Star Metro. Tomorrow, January 7,...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies members of the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa criminalized by mining company

On January 5, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies 4 criminalized members of the Maya Ch'orti' Indigenous Council of Olopa in the presentation hearing. They were...

Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to reassess permit for San José del Progreso mine

Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanies the Civil Observation Mission on Human Rights visit to the San Jose mine, November 2012. Mining.com reports: “ Fortuna Silver Mine stock...

Amnesty Norge reports on visit with Colombian human rights defender Jani Silva

This past November, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied a visit by Norwegian politicians and Amnesty International Norway to meet human rights defender Jani...

State of exception in Honduras sees the continued use of the Military Police for Public Order

Photo: The Military Police for Public Order (PMOP) in Honduras. The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has previously expressed in its report Defending the Land has...
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