The PBI-Honduras accompanied Civic Council of Grassroots and Indigenous Organisations in Honduras (COPINH) has posted on social media: “On World Earth Day, we cannot ignore the cry of a land that bleeds: Palestine. This is not a war, this is genocide! Palestine suffers, resists, cries, screams, endures, fights… lives! Because Read more
Photo: The western face of the European Parliament towards the Place du Luxembourg in Brussels, Belgium. The Bonn, Germany-based news agency Deutsche Welle (DW) reports on Colombian human rights defender Claudia Álvarez who has been waiting for 30 months for asylum in Spain. Álvarez says: “I cannot return to Colombia; Read more
On April 24, PBI-Guatemala posted: “For #WaterDay yesterday PBI accompanies the Indigenous Community of San Francisco Quezaltepeque and the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa in their night walk. Among other things, the communities thanked Mother Earth for the water. In addition, they declared the area of the source of Read more
Photo of Luis Pacheco by Emmanuel Andrés/Prensa Comunitaria. PBI-Guatemala has shared a statement/official communication from Indigenous and ancestral authorities of the original peoples of Guatemala that is a “condemnation and rejection of the criminalization, arrest of authorities and leaders who defended democracy.” The Associated Press reports: “Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday Read more
PBI-Honduras has posted on social media: “We accompany the CNTC [National Union of Rural Workers] Tegucigalpa to the National Agrarian Institute with the aim of requesting the file that accredits the awarding of land in the case of the peasant organization October 18 (Suyatal Cedro, Francisco Morazán). From PBI, we Read more
Photo: The press conference in front of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Photo by La Marea. La Jornada reports: “In the context of World Mother Earth Day, more than 20 Indigenous, environmental and human rights organizations demanded this Tuesday [April 22] in a statement an end to Read more
On April 21, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today PBI accompanied the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula who filed a complaint for water pollution and forest damage against Ovidio Cardona, owner of a coffee company whose waste would affect several communities in the area, including sources of drinking water. In today’s Read more
PBI-Honduras has posted: “Today, on International Earth Day, we celebrate the important advocacy work ARCAH does to protect water. Recently, we accompanied members of ARCAH in an activity in El Merendón (Choloma, Cortes), in which concern was expressed about the privatization of water in Honduras. From PBI, we remind you Read more
Photo: COPINH co-founder Berta Cáceres met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 28, 2014. The Indigenous Lenca land defender was killed less than two years later on March 2, 2016, for her opposition to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam on the Gualcarque River, a river considered sacred by Read more
Photo: Partial view of the Equinox Gold Los Filos mine in Guerrero. The Ejido El Bajío in Sonora has posted on social media: “We stand in solidarity with #EjidoCarrizalillo in their fight against the Canadian company #EquinoxGold which is waging a campaign of violence against the community to impose a Read more