Monthly Archives: April, 2025

PBI-Mexico expresses concern about threats against Nahua defender and FPDTA-MPT member Miryam Vargas Teutle

Video still: PBI-Mexico with Miryam Vargas Teutle, December 2023. PBI-Mexico has posted: “From @PBI_Mexico we express our concern about the threats against the defender and communicator...

PBI-Guatemala observes hearing of former paramilitary members accused of sexual violence against Mayan Achi women

PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On Monday PBI observed a hearing in the #MujeresAchí case. During the hearing, the procedural parties were given the opportunity to present...

PBI-Canada calls for language in the COP30 text this November that would help protect land and environmental defenders

The United Nations COP30 climate change conference will take place on November 10 to 21, 2025, in Belém, Brazil. An estimated 2,106 land and environmental...

Questions and concerns about the pending export of Canadian-made armoured vehicles to the Israel Police

Video still of Roshel at CANSEC 2024 on May 29-30, 2024: “Shimonov said the company has a contract with the government of Israel to...

What implications could Canada-US trade and security talks have on the safety of human rights defenders?

Photo of the RCMP on Wet'suwet'en territory by Dan Loan: With the mining of critical minerals, fast-tracked resource projects and energy corridors potentially on...

As Canadian company sells mine in Oaxaca, we remember the territorial defenders killed while opposing it

Photo by Educa Oaxaca. “March 21, 2012: CPUVO members and Mexican human rights organizations hold a protest in front of the Canadian embassy in...

PBI-Guatemala observes two-day court hearing that grants retired military officer alternative measures in the Emma & Antonio Molina Theissen case

On April 10, PBI-Guatemala posted: "Today PBI observes a hearing in the Molina Theissen case in the First Room of the Court of Appeals. Tried...

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nomadesc as Presidential Advisor for Human Rights visits with threatened union workers

PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “In the context of the visit of the Presidential Advisor for Human Rights, and our accompaniment to Nomadesc, who watch...

30,000 people mobilize in Ottawa to demand arms embargo following Ploughshares report on GD-OTS-Canada artillery propellant deal

Photo: Arms embargo mobilization in Ottawa, April 12. Photo by Adonis Ayoub. An estimated 30,000 people mobilized in Ottawa this past weekend to demand a...

The Guardian reports on the killing of environmental defender Juan Bautista Silva and his son Juan Antonio Hernández

Photo: Environmental defender Juan Bautista Silva Ventura and his son Juan Antonio. On February 28, COPINH posted: “ALERT Environmentalist Juan Bautista Silva Ventura and his son Juan...
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