Video: Sleydo’ and Gitxsan land defender Shaylynn Sampson arrested at gunpoint by the RCMP C-IRG unit on Wet’suwet’en territory on November 19, 2021. On Monday July 24, environment minister Steven Guilbeault announced that the Canadian government would be phasing out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. CTV reports: “A government official, speaking Read more
Photo: The Nyando Social Justice Centre says: “Nyando social justice center has been a target by Ahero police officers so this time round they decided to fire several teargas canisters into our offices till they caught fire.” PBI-Kenya has tweeted: “Yesterday [Wednesday July 19], the Nyando Social Justice Centre in Read more
Visit with the “15 de febrero” community accompanied by the the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR), May 4, 2023. This past spring, PBI-Canada visited organizations, defenders and communities accompanied by PBI-Guatemala. SUNDAY APRIL 30 MONDAY MAY 1 TUESDAY MAY 2 WEDNESDAY MAY 3 THURSDAY MAY 4 FRIDAY MAY 5 Read more
A “Lockheed Martin, Stop Selling War Machines” banner helps block arms dealers, government officials and the military from CANSEC. Photo by Koozma J. Tarasoff. As more than 100 activists blocked the entrances to the parking lots of the CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa on May 31, traffic was snarled for 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
Peace Brigades International mourns the passing of PBI co-founder Hans Sinn on June 29 in Perth, Ontario at 94 years of age. Hans was born in Hamburg, Germany on February 16, 1929. His childhood was shaped by World War II. In 1943, at the age of 14, Hans lived through Read more
On July 10, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks and Sleydo’, Wing Chief of the Cas Yikh House (Grizzly Bear House), Gidimt’en Clan, presented at a virtual hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The video of their presentation can be seen on YouTube. The presentation by Sleydo’ begins at Read more
Member of Parliament Leah Gazan has written the United Nations as demands grow for two Winnipeg landfills to be searched for the remains of three murdered Indigenous women. The Winnipeg Police Service and Government of Manitoba have refused to conduct a search citing costs and the hazards of doing so. Read more
There were red dresses on Parliament Hill in Ottawa yesterday (July 17) to help amplify the call to search the privately-run Prairie Green landfill (garbage dump) north of Winnipeg for the remains of two murdered Indigenous women. The landfill is where the remains of Long Plain First Nation members Morgan Read more
“We want to live free on our lands, without the constant threat of violence by C-IRG, who are illegally occupying Gidimt’en territory.” – Wet’suwet’en land defender Sleydo’. Video: Sleydo’ and Gitxsan land defender Shaylynn Sampson arrested at gunpoint by RCMP C-IRG officers on Wet’suwet’en territory on November 19, 2021. Radio-Canada International reports Read more