February 2025

Peace Brigades International has long accompanied the struggle against the Fortuna Silver mine in Oaxaca

Photo: PBI-Mexico attended Educa Oaxaca’s 25th anniversary colloquium ‘Challenges of the social and popular movement in the times of transformations in Mexico 1994-2019’. Peace Brigades International, through its previous accompaniment of Services for Alternative Education A.C. (Educa Oaxaca), has long followed the situation of Vancouver-based Fortuna Silver mining operation in Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA at meeting with Canadian Embassy on self-protection mechanisms in Antioquia

On February 24, the Humanitarian Action Corporation for Coexistence and Peace in Northeast Antioquia (CAHUCOPANA) posted: “Today in the city of #Bogota, in the premises of the Canadian Embassy Cahucopana Nordeste socialized the results of the project Segovia resists, Segovia for Peace! Funded by the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Honduras observes sit-in at Public Ministry demanding prosecution of criminal structure behind murder of Juan López

PBI-Honduras has posted: “Today we observed a sit-in by the Municipal Committee in Defence of Public and Common Goods (CMDBCP), demanding justice for Juan López. Before the media present, the CMDBCP highlighted the alleged existence of a criminal structure that would have penetrated state institutions in order to advance the Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the commemoration of the National Day of Dignity of the Victims of the Internal Armed Conflict

On February 25, PBI-Guatemala posted on social media: “Today #PBIacompanies the march for the Day of Dignity of Victims of Internal Armed Conflict which honors the memory of loved ones missing and killed by the military in the war. The protesters remembered their lives and claim their struggles for land, Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada says that the RCMP C-IRG that criminalizes and violates the rights of land defenders should be disbanded

Video still: Land defender Shaylynn Sampson arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory by RCMP C-IRG officers, November 2021. On February 18, CBC reported that British Columbia (BC) Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen ruled that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) breached the Charter rights of three Indigenous land defenders during Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-UK “stunned and disappointed” by UK Government’s decision to slash international aid to pay for increase in military spending

The CBC reports: “British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday [February 25] he would increase annual defence spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2027 and target a three per cent level.” “The increase would see Britain spending 13.4 billion pounds ($24.2 billion Cdn) more Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

RCMP apologizes to Ricochet senior editor and Gitxsan reporter for C-IRG breaching reporter’s Charter rights in 2020

Video still: Turner at 44km on Gidimt’en territory as RCMP helicopter buzzes overhead at the time of the 2020 C-IRG raid on Wet’suwet’en territory. The CBC reports: “The RCMP [Community-Industry Response Group/C-IRG] seriously interfered with press freedoms, unreasonably blocked media access and arbitrarily detained a reporter during a 2020 raid Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-organized “Who Bears the Cost?” webinar highlights the impacts of transnational corporations, the situation in Buenaventura

On Monday February 24, Peace Brigades International organized a webinar, hosted by Lorena Miguel of PBI-Catalunya, that highlighted a new report “Who Bears the Cost?” and included perspectives and analysis from several countries. We include excerpts of their comments below. Milbia Andrea Díaz, Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace, Colombia Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago