Yearly Archives: 2023

Former PBI-Guatemala field volunteer testifies at trial on the arbitrary detention by police of journalist Norma Sancir at Indigenous protest

Photo: Katharina Ochsendorf testified via videoconference from the Guatemalan consulate in Germany. Photo by Prensa Comunitaria/ Simón Antonio. Norma Sancir is a Maya Kaqchikel journalist,...

PBI-Canada webinar with criminalized Maya Q’eqchi’ journalist Carlos Choc, August 18

Join us on Friday August 18 at 1 pm ET to hear Maya Q’eqchi’ journalist Carlos Choc talk about the criminalization he has experienced...

Concerns that RCMP C-IRG could raid Savage Patch blockade against logging of old-growth forest on Pacheedaht territory

Video of Tla’amin Elder Grandma Losah, a land defender and water protector now at the resistance camp. A blockade of a road to stop logging...

RCMP cited Indigenous opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline as “evidence” to create the C-IRG

Photo: Indigenous water protectors at Standing Rock. CBC journalist Brett Forester reports: “The RCMP used the anti-pipeline resistance at the Standing Rock reservation ...

Maya Q’eqchi’ journalist Carlos Choc to appear in court on August 21 for his reporting on the Fenix mine in Guatemala

Join us on Friday August 18 for a conversation with criminalized journalist Carlos Choc. Register here. This report published on June 22, 2023, by Article...

PBI-Mexico seeks field volunteers, deadline to apply is August 20

The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project is seeking field volunteers for a one-year term to accompany human rights defenders. The application deadline is August 20. For more...

Extension of The National Dream railway has implications for Indigenous land defenders opposing megaproject in Mexico

Photo: The Last Spike completed the CPR railroad in 1885. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) company was integral to the colonization of Indigenous lands and...

PBI-Mexico helps document abuses against Indigenous territorial defenders opposed to Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus project

Video: PBI-Mexico speaks at the observation mission media conference, July 27. PBI-Mexico recently participated in an international observation mission that documented abuses against Indigenous territorial...

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the displacement of an Indigenous community for a military base in Guatemala

“This land is ours” On May 5, a Peace Brigades International-Canada delegation met with Olivia, a representative of the Residents Association of Chicoyogüito, Alta Verapaz...

Canada promises to announce an implementation plan by Fall 2024 to phase-out public financing of the fossil fuel sector

Video: The construction of EDC financed Coastal GasLink and Trans Mountain pipelines has been facilitated through RCMP C-IRG violence. The Canadian government recently announced its...
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