Christyn Cianfarani, the president of CADSI, “the national voice of more than 900 Canadian defence and security companies” and the organizer of the annual CANSEC arms show in Ottawa, has previously addressed a Senate committee noting arms exports and human rights. She commented: “Our companies – 90 per cent of Read more…
On February 27, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “Last week we visited the campesina base “El Arrayán, Nueva Esperanza”, in Comayagua, together with the Dutch embassy and the @CntcTegucigalpa [the National Union of Rural Workers. The community is about to celebrate its 40th anniversary and is still waiting for a community title.” Their Read more…
Peace Brigades International has joined with 168 other organizations in signing this letter to all UN member states: “Human rights defenders are people who act with humanity, serve humanity and who contribute to and bring out the best in humanity. They are key to our daily lives – they work Read more…
Photo: Plains Cree land defender Rachel Thunder stands outside Roof Depot, February 21, 2023. Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle/Sahan Journal. On February 22, MPR News reported: “A day-long occupation of the Roof Depot site in the East Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis ended when police swept the area and arrested eight Read more…
On February 26, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Yesterday, #PBI accompanied the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula and its communities in the commemoration of the Seventh Anniversary of Community Resistance against the operations of the mining company Cantera los Manantiales. The resistance began on 25 February 2016, four years after the Read more…
On February 24, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “26 years #OperationGenesis #Cacarica. CAVIDA [the Communities of Self-determination, Life and Dignity from Cacarica] and [the community of] Clamores, in the midst of impunity and state neglect, persist and make memory, accompanied by @Justiciaypazcol. Enadis Herrera of Clamores: “We didn’t know about the war but Read more…
On February 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBIaccompanies Today we observe the March for Dignification of Victims of Armed Conflict. This day is commemorated because on February 25, 1999, the Report of the Commission for Historical Clarification was presented. The Commission was established through one of the Peace Agreements, the Oslo Agreement Read more…
Tara Houska. Photo by MPR News. On February 23, water protector Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska posted: “Tomorrow at 1:30pm, I’ll appear at my first hearing on multiple criminal charges, including gross misdemeanor trespass on critical infrastructure, from a #StopLine3 demonstration on January 9, 2021. Of over a dozen arrests, only a Read more…
On February 23, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm in the hearing on the #SamocochCase. 23 PNC [National Civil Police] agents are being processed accused of abuse of power and extrajudicial execution of three people from the Samococh community, Chisec, Alta Verapaz. At today’s hearing, a Sociological Read more…
On February 23, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “We are accompanying @COPINHHONDURAS [the Civic Council of Grassroots and Indigenous Organizations in Honduras] and @CntcTegucigalpa [the National Union of Rural Workers] in the community of the Lenca Indigenous Council of Marcala, threatened to be evicted today. #DDHH #HumanRights.” “We are concerned about the risk Read more…