Image from PBI-UK report: The Case For Change: Why human rights defenders need a UK law on mandatory due diligence. PBI-UK has posted on X/Twitter: “WIN! Court confirms UK-registered company owes farmers in El Bajío over £5 million for gold illegally extracted from community land. Environmental defenders were murdered after Read more
PBI-Honduras has posted: “Together with ARCAH and Peace Brigades International Deutschland, we accompany the German Embassy in Honduras during a visit to Rio Grande or Choluteca in Aldea Loarque, Tegucigalpa. ARCAH defenders shared about the importance of creating legislation on atmospheric pollution in Honduras and denounced the river pollution allegedly Read more
Photo: RCMP officers approach Black Hawk helicopter. On January 30, the Montreal Gazette reported: “Facing the threat of U.S. trade tariffs, the RCMP has deployed a new Black Hawk helicopter to bolster patrols along the Quebec-U.S. border, a move the RCMP says signals to Washington that Canada is serious about Read more
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Today #PBI accompanies the Association for Justice and Reconciliation -AJR- at the beginning of the second trial of the #AchíWomen case against three former patrol members accused of sexual violence and crimes against the duties of humanity during the Internal Armed Conflict. A ceremony was held in Read more
Photo: Heavily armed RCMP officers onboard a Black Hawk helicopter near the Alberta-Montana border, January 29, 2025. Peace Brigades International has accompanied the struggle for migrant rights, notably the Saltillo Migrant Shelter in Mexico. The Saltillo Migrant Shelter is situated in the state of Coahuila which shares a 512-kilometre border Read more
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram and X/Twitter: “We accompanied NOMADESC [the Association for Social Research and Action] in the mural day on January 19 in Cali, in their work to defend #humanrights and fight against #impunity. In the Luna de la Resistencia [Moon of Resistance], emblematic site of the 2021 Read more
Photo: Heriberto Paredes/ Pie de Página. PBI-Mexico has posted on Facebook: “The Human Rights Solidarity Network draws attention to the situation of insecurity in the community of Coahuayula, community of human rights defender José Gabriel Pelayo Zalgado, missing since March 19, 2024, and whose family is accompanied in the process Read more
Photo: The anti-COP in Oaxaca, Mexico, 2024. The United Nations Conference of Parties COP30 climate conference will take place in Belém, Brazil this coming November 10 to 21. On the first day of his presidency, January 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Read more
The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) has posted on Facebook: “With the discussion ‘Current events and political challenges in the construction of peace and the defense of human rights’, we opened our day of balance and planning. In this space we talked with Jairo Cala representative Read more
Photo: “Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown at her camp and dog sanctuary, situated a few dozen metres from the projected right-of-way of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline.” Photo by Mike Graeme, November 27, 2024. We are following the on-the-ground resistance by Indigenous land defenders to the construction of the Read more