On January 18, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón. We visited the communities of Sactá and Las Tres Cruces. We met with leaders and members of the Resistance who shared with us the risks they face in defending the rivers and the land. PBI is very concerned Read more…
Photo: In June 2022, PBI-Mexico accompanied a meeting of Indigenous Communities in Coloradas de la Virgen, Guadalupe and Calvo, Chihuahua with the objective of exchanging experiences on the defence of territory and natural resources. On December 19, 2023, Raichali reported: “Faced with the unstoppable wave of displacement of entire communities in Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has now posted: “We extend the call to January 28 to select volunteers who want to accompany human rights organizations!” More information on this here. And PBI-Honduras has posted: “Want to know more about volunteering at PBI Honduras? Read the call on our website and learn about the world behind Read more…
Photo: Image from BBC video of today’s ICJ ruling. The Guardian reports: “[International Court of Justice president] Judge [Joan E.] Donoghue says the court has decided that Israel must ‘take all measures within its its power’ to prevent all acts within the scope of the genocide convention. She says it Read more…
On January 24, PBI-Honduras posted: “Last week we visited the different communities of the San Pedro Sector in Tocoa. For more than 10 years, they are organized in the San Pedro Common Goods Committee for the defense and care of the territory they inhabit. We express concern over the invalidation Read more…
Photo: Mangaña is a community of 21 families located in Bahía Málaga (Valle del Cauca). On January 23, PBI-Colombia retweeted this post from the Association for Social Research and Action (NOMADESC): “#SOS We reject all violent actions and REQUEST @CorteIDH [Inter-American Court of Human Rights] to attend to the precautionary Read more…
Photo: Canadian Ambassador David Hartman and Secretary of Defence Gilberto Teodoro signed the Philippines Canada Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding in Manila (National Capital Region) on January 19, 2024. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both documented in their annual reports multiple human rights concerns in the Philippines including Read more…
Photo: Michel Forst on a PBI-Canada webinar about COP28 and environmental defenders, December 7, 2023. Michel Forst, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, has just released this two-page report on “the increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental defenders in the United Kingdom” under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Read more…
The PBI-Colombia Project has tweeted: “New threat against Yessica Hoyos, president of the @Ccajar, for her representation of victims of the massacre perpetrated by the Police. The increase in threats and defamations against the Collective in recent months is worrying.” The José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CAJAR) has issued this Read more…
City of Ottawa By-law officers continue to issue $490 tickets to people using megaphones at #CeasefireNow marches. The Ottawa Citizen has reported the tickets are being handed out under bylaw No. 2017-255. Key excerpts from that bylaw include: It’s not clear the specific intent or past experiences that generated the Read more…