The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs have posted on Instagram and Facebook: “We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors! This National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the generations who fought for our lands, waters, and people — and we carry their fight forward. This is our Laxyip. This is Read more…
Photo: Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, the general coordinator of the PBI-Honduras accompanied Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), is part of the campaign supporting the creation of a Binding Treaty. The 10th session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with Read more…
The PBI-Colombia accompanied Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (CAHUCOPANA) has posted: “Now in Bogota. Cahucopana Nordeste participates in the capital of Colombia in the meeting prior to #COP16 #PeaceWithNature, highlighting the importance of biodiversity in the territories #SerraniaSanLucas to advance towards #Peace.” The United Nations Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “The day before yesterday [meaning on September 23], #PBIacompanies UVOC [Verapaz Union of Peasant Organizations] in the swearing in of the Ancestral Councils of the Maya Q’eqchi‘ and Poqomchi’ peoples of Purulhá, Baja Verapaz. The event took place in the Municipality of Purulhá. The creation of these Read more…
Photo of Brian Smallshaw prior to his arrest by the RCMP C-IRG in 2021. Photo by Tom Mitchell from CBC News report. Two weeks ago, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) published a 16-page summary of its final report on a public complaint about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Read more…
The Bogota-based National Union of Branch Workers, Services of the Transport and Logistics Industry of Colombia (SNTT) is calling for an investigation into the police killing in Canada of a former member of their union. The SNTT has posted: “In light of the events that occurred in the early hours Read more…
PBI-Honduras has posted: “From PBI we accompany the Agrarian Platform and the peasant, indigenous and Garifuna communities in the exercise of peaceful citizen mobilization, where they demand the vindication of their rights for the protection of the environment.” The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has Read more…
The full civil society statement on the Working Group report can be read here. PBI-Mexico has posted: “Today the two-year report of the Working Group to strengthen the @Mecanismo_MX [Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists operated by the Ministry of the Interior] was delivered, promoted by @ONUDHmexico [Office Read more…
Photo: Victoria Police at the Land Forces arms show in Naarm/Melbourne, September 2024. Photo by Alex Bainbridge/Green Left. CBC reports: “Ottawa police plan to introduce horse-mounted patrols to the ByWard Market, in response to concerns over crime and public safety in the historic neighbourhood, Chief Eric Stubbs told a public Read more…
Photo: Protest against DEFSEC Atlantic 2023. The Canadian Defence Security & Aerospace Exhibition Atlantic, or DEFSEC Atlantic, will take place this coming October 1-3 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. DEFSEC Atlantic says: “[It is] now the second largest event of its kind in Canada.” In 2023, it had 168 exhibiting organizations, Read more…