CADSI video for CANSEC 2023. In September 2022, Amnesty International posted: “Members of the Mexican military have committed frequent crimes under international law and serious human rights violations with impunity. From 2014 to date, the CNDH [National Human Rights Commission] has received at least 6,661 complaints of human rights violations Read more
Still from CADSI video promoting CANSEC 2023. One of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) ads on YouTube promoting the upcoming CANSEC arms show in Ottawa includes an image of the Peruvian military at a past CANSEC. CANSEC will take place this year on May 31 and Read more
Michael Toledano tweet and photo: “At the site where a Wet’suwet’en cabin was burnt to the ground & 15 people were arrested, Coastal GasLink is preparing to drill beneath the Wedzin Kwa river. This would not be possible without the RCMP’s C-IRG unit, who cleared the way with snipers, carbines, Read more
Photo: A security check-point at Mile Marker 27, near Houston, B.C., on Jan. 8, 2019. Photo by Jimmy Jeong/The Globe and Mail. This helicopter appears similar in appearance to a Eurocopter EC-120 Colibri. The RCMP community-industry response group (C-IRG) has used helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and drones to surveil and arrest Read more
Photo: The Emergency Response Team, an RCMP unit deployed against Wet’suwet’en land defenders in January 2019, at the RCMP Musical Ride in June 2019. The RCMP stated in 2015 that the ERT had been part of the Sunset Ceremonies in Ottawa for about 10 years. This coming Tuesday May 23 marks the Read more
Photo: The Emergency Response Team, an RCMP unit deployed against Wet’suwet’en land defenders in January 2019, at the RCMP Musical Ride in June 2019. The RCMP stated in 2015 that the ERT had been part of the Sunset Ceremonies in Ottawa for about 10 years. This coming Tuesday May 23 Read more
Photo: Oscar Ramirez, Ferney Salcedo, Gustavo Torres. As Calgary-based Frontera Energy holds its virtual annual meeting of shareholders on May 18, three Colombian human rights defenders are raising concerns about the company’s operations in San Luis de Palenque and Orocué, Casanare. Their short videos (spoken in Spanish with English subtitles) Read more
On Sunday May 7, PBI-Canada and PBI-Guatemala visited with the Peaceful Resistance of La Puya at a roadside site that it has maintained for more than ten years at the entrance to the “El Tambor” Progreso VII Derivada gold mine. During our visit to the site a short drive outside Read more
Photo: On May 2, 2023, PBI-Canada heard about the impacts of the El Pilar sugar mill on the nearby community of Pajales Sis. On May 2-4, PBI-Canada visited the South Coast of Guatemala to learn more about the impacts of sugar production on communities and their access to water. Just Read more
On May 10, PBI-Canada observed a march in Guatemala City in opposition to the hydroelectric dams built on Mayan Q’eqchi’ territory without consent. Now, Prensa Comunitaria journalist Regina Pérez reports: “Mayan Q’eqchi’ protesters call attention to the lack of water in their communities in Alta Verapaz, due to the operation of Read more