Secwepemc land defender Kanahus Manuel has posted on Instagram: “The pigs creeping around camp, surveillance and harassment continues, temporary fence that tmx [Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project] put up was removed yesterday, the government may be trying to raid or move in! Stay posted.” The C-IRG If a raid does Read more…
(páginas 26 a 29) Bloque Cubiro I. Información resumida del caso: Nombre del proyecto: Explotación y exploración de hidrocarburos Bloque Cubiro Ubicación: Veredas La Venturosa, Platanales, La Nevera y El Tigre, municipio San Luis de Palenque (Casanare – Colombia) Empresas involucradas: Frontera Energy Entidad financiera: – Sector: exploración y explotación Read more…
On August 30, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “PBI accompanies relatives of victims in Chihuahua while placing plaques with the names of 202 people whose families @CEDEHM [the Centre for Women’s Human Rights] accompanies.” As noted on the CEDEHM website: “Initially, our work focused on accompanying women and their daughters and sons seeking Read more…
On August 29, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “If there is no path, we create it”… We were accompanying @nydia_erika and relatives of victims of #Enforced Disappearance from different departments of Colombia to demand, in front of the @UBPDcolombia, truth and justice #WomenSeekers sowing dignity #untilfound As can be seen in the poster Read more…
La Opción de Chihuahua reports: “The Secretary of Public Security of the State (SSPE), Gilberto Loya Chávez, held a meeting on Monday [August 26] with authorities of the International Peace Brigade (Peace Brigades International or PBI) Mexico project, with the aim of reviewing data on the incidence of crime in Read more…
Photo: Carlos Beas Torres of UCIZONI. The Union of Indigenous Communities from the North of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) is opposed to the of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) and the TC Energy Southeast Gateway Pipeline, an offshore gas pipeline whose landfall endpoint is Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, which Read more…
On July 31, PBI-Honduras posted: “To end this #PrideMonth, we accompanied the organizations Asociación LGTB Arcoiris de Honduras and Somoscdc Hn during the closing march through the streets of Tegucigalpa. At PBI we highlight the work of all the organizations that work to defend LGTBI+ rights and we remember the Read more…
Photo: CPKC executives, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, US officials and the Mexican military discuss the rail corridor, May 2023. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) company, rebranded as CPKC this past April, is involved in a megaproject variously called the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, Read more…
Video still: Cali Tzay visited Canada from March 1-10 this year. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí Tzay, has released his report on his Visit to Canada. On page 13 of that report, he writes: In Canada, Indigenous Peoples are taking up Read more…
Photo: Mylene Vialard (on a 25-bamboo tower) says: “Enbridge Corporation is the one destroying the land, is the one destroying the traditional way of life of Indigenous people, is the one altering the ecology and the environment, is the one denying the right to ceremony to the Indigenous people. All Read more…