Yearly Archives: 2024

Did the COP16 Biodiversity conference in Colombia make progress on the protection of environmental defenders?

Photo: Lina Robles- Publimetro COP16: "their spirits are still alive", activists protested the murder of environmental leaders in the Blue Zone. The United Nations COP16...

Photo-journal of PBI-Canada visit with PBI-Honduras accompanied organizations, defenders and communities

Photo: PBI-Honduras and PBI-Canada stand beside the Guapinol River threatened by the Los Pinares megaproject, October 30. SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson arrives at...

Nepal’s foreign minister visits Canada, international delegation of lawyers call for strengthened transitional justice

Photo: Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal, meets with Melanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, in Ottawa in...

PBI-Canada hosts webinar on UN COP and Binding Treaty processes and the protection of environmental defenders

On October 24, Peace Brigades International-Canada held a webinar focused on the United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia, the upcoming negotiations in Geneva...

PBI-Mexico accompanied lawyer María Eugenia Gabriel Ruiz interviewed by El Pais, speaks about avocados and mining

Photo: “María Eugenia Gabriel Ruiz, indigenous Purépecha activist from Michoacán, in Madrid Río on 26 September.” Photo by Mario Bermudo. María Eugenia Gabriel Ruiz is...

PBI-Colombia welcomes new brigade members, PBI-Honduras seeks new applicants with November 9 deadline

Photo: (from left to right) Ita from Mexico, Mar, Michael and Celia from the Spanish State, Valeria from Mexico. Yesterday, PBI-Colombia welcomed five new volunteers....

“As a collective, we want to turn our pain into rights” – Yanette Bautista of the “Nydia Erika Bautista” Foundation

Today, October 23, the National Day of Recognition of Women Searchers of Victims of Forced Disappearance is commemorated in Colombia. On this day, Amnesty International...

PBI-Canada calls on Minister Ng to support environmental defenders criminalized for protesting Canadian mining company

Photo from November 2023 by EFE from Observatory of Mining Conflicts in Latin America (OCMAL) website. Peace Brigades International-Canada is one of 122 organizations to...

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Peaceful Resistance of the Poqomán People in Chinautla in struggle against sand mines

PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On Tuesday , #PBIacompanies the women at the #Chinautla Poqomam Village Peaceful Resistance. At their meeting, they updated us about their upcoming activities...

PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA as communities analyze and evaluate their self-protection measures

The Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (Cahucopana) has posted: “Resistance and denunciation, when the bullets sound, our voices more! On the...
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