On December 7, The Maple reported: The federal government is refusing to say whether or not it made the decision to green-light nearly $1 million in new military exports to Peru during a period of brutal crackdowns by the country’s government against Indigenous-led protesters. Documents obtained by Amnesty International Canada through Read more…
On December 9, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “The Open Town Hall for Socialization and Consultation of the Ecotek Investment Power Plant Project was annulled by the municipal mayor’s office of Tocoa (Colón)” On Facebook they also further explained: “After this decision, the organizations present decided to conduct a self-consultation in which they Read more…
On December 7, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm at the interim hearing in which they were going to decide whether to close the criminalization case against 3 organized fishermen from El Estor and the journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc. The 4 accused were linked to criminal proceedings Read more…
On November 28, PBI-Mexico posted: “On November 27 and 28, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project accompanies the Peoples Front of Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala in their press conferences about the case of Jaime Dominguez Perez, a survivor of torture. The defender was arrested in September 2013 as part of a protest Read more…
On December 6, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We were accompanying @Justiciaypazcol [the Justice and Peace Commission] in the conversation in #PuebloNuevo about restorative justice as a mechanism for the construction of #life and #peace from organized communities to seek guarantees of non-repetition.” The previous day they had also tweeted: “We were accompanying 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…
Photo: On October 14, 2023, Wet’suwet’en and Otomi land defenders marched together in Toronto in opposition to the construction of TC Energy pipelines on their territories. This is a brief overview of what we have compiled about Indigenous opposition to Calgary-based TC Energy gas pipelines in Mexico: The Encino-Topolobampo pipeline Read more…
Still from Brandi Morin video. Open trench construction for the Government of Canada-owned Trans Mountain pipeline near Pipsell (Jacko Lake) is underway despite the opposition of land defenders. Global News notes: “Trans Mountain initially agreed to a costly, less-invasive method known as micro-drilling to dig under and around the lake… Read more…
Photo: Delegates at a plenary session of COP28. Photo by UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth. The latest draft of the Global Stocktake (GST) – essentially the COP28 summit declaration – was released on Friday December 8. It can be read here. Significantly, the GST still does not include any reference to Read more…
Photo: Gitxsan members and their allies block Highway 16 on November 21, 2023, in protest of the RCMP’s C-IRG program. (Morgan Powell/Interior News). The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC), an Ottawa-based independent federal agency, launched its investigation into the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) nine Read more…