Monthly Archives: May, 2025

Front Line Defenders documents the killing of 31 Palestinian human rights defenders, many by Israeli airstrikes

Photo: Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad was killed by an Israeli drone airstrike in October 2024. In this photo, the 19-year-old journalist carries the photo...

Investigative Journalism Foundation reports that Bell Textron wants to sell helicopters to the RCMP

Photo: Bell Helicopters for Public Safety, Firefighting and Police Operations. Journalist Carly Penrose of the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) reports: “The Mirabel, Que.-based company registered...

Land and environmental defenders at risk as Canada, the US and UK pursue critical minerals for weapons

In this joint policy briefing released today, May 15, 2025, seventeen organizations, including Peace Brigades International, warn that the UK government’s drive to secure...

PBI-Canada celebrates International Conscientious Objection Day and our founders who went to prison for refusing military service

Photo: Then-22-year-old Gene Keyes (with Jane Gordon) burns his draft card on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1963, in front of a Selective Service System...

PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS in El Guayabo for the socialization of CDG Order recognizing the Magdalena River

PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “We accompanied Credhos in the village of El Guayabo and the peasant community of this territory in the act...

PBI-Honduras observes hearing of three Los Pinares/Ecotek executive accused of illegal exploitation and damage to national park

On May 13, PBI-Honduras posted on Facebook: “Today, together with other national and international organizations and the diplomatic corps, in solidarity with the Municipal Committee...

PBI-Canada concerned that Ring of Fire could be designated a “special economic zone” in September 2025

Video still: “We will defend our lands & waters.” From the 12-minute video “Neskantaga - We Love Our Land” by Allan Lissner. The area known...

PBI-Colombia present as CREDHOS witnesses the socialization of the JEP decision on the Magdalena River

JEP video still from ceremony on May 11, 2025. The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) has posted on Facebook: “The River has...

Translocal learning and the protection needs of environmental defenders, campesina and Indigenous communities in British Columbia and Colombia

Photos: Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia; “La Perla Amazónica” Campesina Reserve Zone in Putumayo, Colombia. Environmental defenders in the Putumayo region of Colombia and on...

PBI-Guatemala starts accompaniment of Maya Q’eqchi’ frontline journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc

Photo: PBI-Guatemala with Carlos Ernesto Choc, February 2024. The latest Monthly Information Package (April 2025) from the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project notes: “At our twice-yearly assembly...
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