PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “We congratulate the Peace Community for their anniversary, they have been 28 years of Resistance and Peace Building in the territory of Urabá. We were able to accompany them on March 23, on these special dates and always remembering Nalleli and Edinson whose case remains Read more…
Photo: In April 2015, Public Safety Canada’s Government Operations Centre (GOC) reportedly saw Unist’ot’en opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline as a risk to Canada’s “national interest”. By January 2019, “Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of [the Coastal GasLink pipeline] in northern British Columbia, Read more…
Photo: Protests at the CANSEC arms at the EY Centre in Ottawa have drawn attention to Lockheed Martin, a sponsor of CANSEC 2025. The Lockheed Martin “2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders” is a virtual gathering happening on May 9, less than three weeks before the U.S. based transnational exhibits at Read more…
Google Maps Image of Westminster Quaker Meeting House. CNN reports: “British police raided a Quaker meeting house in London on Thursday [March 27] and arrested six women attending a meeting on climate change and the war in Gaza, according to a statement from Quakers UK.” That CNN news report adds: Read more…
Photo: The statement was announced on Wednesday March 26 on the steps of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid as Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced his intention to accelerate the country’s military spending. Peace Brigade International-Spanish State, along with nearly 850 organizations and 16,000 individuals, has signed this letter that opposes Read more…
On March 27, RTVC News posted: “The Presidential Advisor for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Lourdes Castro, met with threatened social leaders in Cali and throughout the department.” “Meets with threatened trade unionists” The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) documented: “Between 2023 and 2024, 11 trade unionists were assassinated, Read more…
Photo: David Hartsough. On March 22, the family of David Hartsough announced his passing at the age of 84 after four years of fighting cancer. The book Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist notes: “David Hartsough knows how to get in the way! He has used his body Read more…
Photo: Elle Harris, daughter of Morgan Harris, speaks at a “search the landfill” rally on Parliament Hill, September 18, 2023. Photo by Brent Patterson. Three years ago, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, Rebecca Contois and Ashlee Shingoose were murdered in the city of Winnipeg. The four Indigenous women were killed between Read more…
Photo: On February 24, we held our first webinar of the year focused on the situation of human rights defenders in the Colombian port city of Buenaventura. This year PBI-Canada has a schedule of confirmed and planned webinars that we hope you will find of interest, that will provide important Read more…
Photo: Narayan Desai spinning thread, a symbol of the non-cooperation movement, during a public meeting in February 1992. Photo by Yann Forget. Ten years ago this month, the Mumbai, India-based newspaper The Economic Times reported: “Noted Gandhian and former Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith [university], Narayan Desai, died at a private Read more…