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PBI-Honduras accompanied ARCAH and COPINH support the call on Honduran government to cancel the Ecotek petroleum coke thermoelectric project

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Photo: PBI-Honduras was present at the self-convened popular assembly that rejected the Ecotek/Los Pinares megaproject; December 9, 2023. Guapinol Exige Justicia (Guapinol Demands Justice) has...

Courage & calm despite attacks: Mongabay news platform Q&A with Colombian environmental defender Yuly Velásquez

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Mongabay, the U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform (whose readership averages 9 million visitors each month), reports: “Yuly Velásquez grew up on the...

Twelve concerning things we learned about the RCMP C-IRG during the first week of the abuse of process hearing

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Dramatic Video Shows Militarized Canadian Police Raid Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders & Journalists (Democracy Now!, November 24, 2021). An abuse of process application was heard in a...

Special Rapporteurs raise concerns about the criminalization of Maya Q’eqchi’ journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc in Guatemala

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Photo: Irene Khan, David R. Boyd, Mary Lawlor, José Francisco Cali Tzay, Marcos A. Orellana, and Damilola S. Olawuyi. Three letters have been sent by...

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

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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

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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...

What weapons did the RCMP C-IRG deploy against Indigenous land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory on November 19, 2021?

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Image by Amber Bracken. We have previously attempted to identify the weapons used by RCMP Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) officers when they raided Wet’suwet’en territory...

PBI-Mexico at meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists

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On January 3, Espacio OSC tweeted: “Today we met with @MaryLawlorhrds Special Rapporteur of the @UN on Human Rights Defenders and @UNHCHRmexico, to share the...

Supported by popular mobilizations, Bernardo Arévalo is sworn in as President of Guatemala

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Video still: Arevalo moments after being sworn-in. The Associated Press reports: “Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s president on Monday minutes after midnight despite...

Indigenous land defenders found guilty of criminal contempt; court will now focus on Charter violations by RCMP C-IRG unit

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Video: RCMP C-IRG officers arrest land defenders Sleydo’ and Shaylynn Sampson at gunpoint on November 19, 2021. We are monitoring news reports and social media...
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