Monthly Archives: January, 2024

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón opposed to Canadian-designed dams on Q’eqchi’ territory

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...

PBI-Mexico accompanies Indigenous Ódami peoples in the mountains of Chihuahua forcibly displaced by organized crime

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...

PBI seeking field volunteers in Honduras and Guatemala

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...

International Court of Justice delivers interim ruling, calls on Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza

Photo: Image from BBC video of today's ICJ ruling. The Guardian reports: " Judge Donoghue says the court has decided that Israel must 'take all...

PBI-Honduras visits communities in Tocoa as the Los Pinares ASP mining concession is set to expire on January 28

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...

PBI-Colombia accompanied NOMADESC calls for protection measures after attack on Bahía Málaga in the rural area of Buenaventura

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...

Canada and the Philippines sign defence cooperation agreement despite the killings of human rights defenders

Photo: Canadian Ambassador David Hartman and Secretary of Defence Gilberto Teodoro signed the Philippines Canada Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding in Manila (National Capital...

UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders “deeply troubled” at the use of civil injunctions to ban protest

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,...

New threats against PBI-Colombia accompanied CAJAR lawyer Yessika Hoyos Morales

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...

Ottawa By-law officers issue tickets for megaphone use at #CeasefireNow marches despite Charter and Covenant rights

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...
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