Yearly Archives: 2023

CRCC posts “investigation update” ahead of webinars on RCMP C-IRG violence against land defenders

Video: RCMP C-IRG officers smash down a door and arrest land defenders at gunpoint on November 19, 2021. The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC)...

PBI-Canada remembers Ueli Wildberger and the “menschenteppich” at the arms show in Winterthur, Switzerland

Photo: Ueli Wildberger (1945–2023). Photo by Andrea Zahler. The Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger (Daily Gazette) reports on the passing of Peace Brigades International activist Ueli Wildberger. Ueli...

Indigenous Ryukyuans call on Canadian military to stop using U.S. military bases on Okinawa

Global News video clip. Earlier this year, Mongabay reported (in a collaboration with other news platforms): “Opponents of the latest U.S. military base in Okinawa,...

Will the push to export “green hydrogen” and critical minerals from Canada to the European Union impact Mi’kmaq and Innu rights?

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...

Wet’suwet’en water protector Sleydo’, criminalized for defending Wedzin Kwa, in court January 8-19, 2024

PBI-Canada expresses its concern about the continued criminalization and harassment of Wet’suwet’en land defenders and water protectors opposed to the construction without free, prior...

Nomadesc president Berenice Celeita on impunity and the equipping of the Colombian national police following the National Strike

Video still: Berenice Celeita holds up a tear gas canister during a PBI-Canada webinar on police violence in Colombia, June 3, 2021. When Association for...

What language should be included in the COP28 statement to better protect environmental human rights defenders?

The United Nations COP28 climate change conference will take place from November 30 to December 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is expected...

Gitxsan land defenders to rally against the RCMP’s militarized C-IRG unit, November 21 in Smithers

Members of the Gitxsan nation will be rallying in Smithers tomorrow (November 21) to "ban a militarized RCMP C-IRG that terrorize our people and...

UN special experts call for an arms embargo, continue to press for a ceasefire in Gaza to avoid a genocide in the making

Photo by Alisdare Hickson from the ISHR website. United Nations special experts, including Mary Lawlor, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, say:...

PBI-Canada participates in visionary and advocacy meetings in Caparica, Portugal

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...
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