Yearly Archives: 2023

Federal and provincial governments have spent $50 million on RCMP C-IRG repression of land defence struggles

Photo: RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory, January 7, 2019. Photo by Michael Toledano. Ottawa-based CBC journalist Brett Forester reports: “An RCMP squad charged with policing...

Criminalization of land defenders continues as 4th anniversary of RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory approaches

Photo: A land defender is tackled to the ground by an RCMP officer on January 7, 2019. Photo by Jesse Winter/Star Metro. Tomorrow, January 7,...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies members of the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa criminalized by mining company

On January 5, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies 4 criminalized members of the Maya Ch'orti' Indigenous Council of Olopa in the presentation hearing. They were...

Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to reassess permit for San José del Progreso mine

Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanies the Civil Observation Mission on Human Rights visit to the San Jose mine, November 2012. Mining.com reports: “ Fortuna Silver Mine stock...

Amnesty Norge reports on visit with Colombian human rights defender Jani Silva

This past November, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied a visit by Norwegian politicians and Amnesty International Norway to meet human rights defender Jani...

State of exception in Honduras sees the continued use of the Military Police for Public Order

Photo: The Military Police for Public Order (PMOP) in Honduras. The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has previously expressed in its report Defending the Land has...

Would Canadian F-35 warplanes be a “strategic mismatch” to defend “our northern skies”?

Photo: A CF-18 fighter jet at the 3 Wing forward operating location in Iqaluit, Nunavut. The “Canadian Arctic” covers 40 per cent of Canada’s territory...

Where does the promise to dismantle the Colombian riot police ESMAD unit now stand?

Photo: Oscar Ramirez (Committee in Solidarity with Political Prisoners) and Alexandra González (Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of National Defence). Photo by MOVICE. There are...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm (BDH) at #CasoDiarioMilitar hearing after two of the accused die

On January 3, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies the Human Rights Law Firm to the extinction hearing of the criminal prosecution of the military Taracena and...

PBI-Mexico highlights that Court has now recognized the illegality of closing a Rarámuri sewing workshop

On January 3, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “The Rarámuri community Bosques San Elías Repechique in the #SierraTarahumara obtained a sentence from the First District Court of the...
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