Photo: Indigenous environmental defender Quinto Inuma Alvarado was shot and killed in Peru on the eve of COP28. This open letter signed by 102 organizations, including Peace Brigades International, notes: “We represent a wide range of movements and organisations, working for climate justice, human rights including Indigenous Peoples rights, labour Read more…
Today, Thursday November 30, the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 28 climate summit began in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Numerous organizations, including Peace Brigades International, are calling for language in the summit’s declaration (that will be issued sometime around December 12) to reflect the situation faced by frontline land Read more…
On Thursday December 7 at 12 pm ET, PBI-Canada will be hosting a webinar focused on the United Nations COP28 climate summit and the actions it should take to address violence against frontline environmental defenders. To register for this webinar, click here. At least 1,390 land and environmental defenders have Read more…
On October 30, Association for Research and Social Action (Nomadesc) president Berenice Celeita spoke at the Amnesty International Canada office in Ottawa/Algonquin territory. The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has accompanied Nomadesc since 2011 and Berenice Celeita since 1999. At this public forum, we offered these comments: Canada has an enormous economic relationship Read more…
Photo: Manuel Jabonero (PBI-Mexico), Mariana Villarreal (REDETI) and Brent Patterson (PBI-Canada) remember Julián Carrillo on Parliament Hill, October 24. From October 24 to 27, Mariana Azucena Villarreal Frías, the Chihuahua-based coordinator of the Network in Defence of Indigenous Territories of Sierra Tarahumara (REDETI), was in Ottawa. She was accompanied by Read more…
Last month, Peace Brigades International-Canada, along with allies including Above Ground and the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, accompanied and sought to amplify the resistance of Wet’suwet’en and Otomi land defenders to the Coastal GasLink and Tuxpan-Tula fracked gas pipelines being built on their territories without consent by the Calgary-based Canadian Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project is seeking field volunteers to accompany human rights defenders. The deadline to apply is January 7, 2024. The training and final selection week will then take place from May 19-25 in Spain. Requirements to apply include: a good level of Spanish – spoken, written and Read more…
On November 1, PBI-Honduras posted: “Yesterday we accompanied CNTC Progreso to the sit-in and press conference at the National Agrarian Institute (INA). In this instance, several organizations in defense of land and territory protested against a series of evictions that have occurred in the area of Progreso (Yoro) in recent Read more…
Photo: A session of the Visionary Workshop meeting. PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson has returned from ten days of visionary and advocacy meetings with PBI colleagues in Caparica, Portugal. The PBI entities present at these meetings along with Canada included Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nepal, Kenya, Indonesia, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, Read more…
Photo: European Council President Charles Michel, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyon meet in St. John’s. The launch of a “green alliance” and an invitation to join a “critical raw materials club” at the European Union-Canada summit held in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador on Read more…