Yearly Archives: 2024

PBI-Mexico at forum on ‘Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists’ in Sonora

Diario del Yaqui reports: “The Forum ‘Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists’ seeks to socialize a law that protects them from threats,...

PBI-Mexico accompanies the family of murdered Indigenous Náhuatl land defender Samir Flores Soberanes

PBI-Switzerland has posted on Instagram: “In March 2024, Swiss television SRF aired a moving reportage by Mitja Rietbrock on the work of PBI Mexico entitled...

UN Special Rapporteur comments on the “repression and persecution” faced by Indigenous water protectors in Canada

Photo: Maria Jose Acosta Lazo and Pedro Arrojo Agudo at their media conference at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, April 19. Pedro Arrojo Agudo,...

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) session focuses on the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders

The Mongabay web-news portal reports: “ rise in criminalization the key focus of a report released this week at the UN Permanent Forum on...

CAHUCOPANA meets with IACHR Commissioner Andrea Pochak, greets new PBI-Colombia field volunteers

PBI-Colombia has tweeted: “The IACHR meets with @CAHUCOPANA demanding guarantees in response to the prolonged humanitarian crisis suffered by campesino (peasant) communities...

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nomadesc at meeting with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Buenaventura

PBI-Colombia has posted: “We accompanied @Nomadesc in a meeting with @CIDH in Buenaventura, to follow up on the ‘civic strike’ agreements. It...

Ottawa Police Service receives $50 million in federal budget, intends to create a “permanent Special Events Team”

CBC reports: “The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) will receive $50 million in federal funding over the next five years to enhance security near Parliament...

PBI-Mexico works with the Observatory of Social and Gender Violence of Aguascalientes to strengthen their security strategies

PBI-Mexico has posted: “From @PBI_Mexico we recognize the work of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory of Aguascalientes  @FeministAgs in favor of the...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Chinautla Multi-Sector as they peacefully resist illegal sand extraction and river pollution

PBI-Guatemala has posted: "#PBI accompanies Chinautla Multi-Sector. Today we visited members at their planton and they updated us on their struggle, challenges, progress...

Alert: Death Threats Against Colombian Human Rights Lawyer Germán Romero

Article by Yannick Wild, Advocacy Coordinator, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland. UN Human Rights Experts sent a letter to the government of Colombia, expressing their concerns about...
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