On November 18, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on social media:
“Last Friday [November 14], PBI Mexico – together with colleagues from Peace Brigades International – Kenya Project and PUSAKA [an Indonesian organization focused on research, advocacy and the documentation and promotion of indigenous peoples’ rights] – met with the Cerezo Mexico Committee to strengthen our collaboration and share analysis on the current context of human rights defence in Mexico.
We are grateful for this space for exchange, which reinforces the networks of international solidarity that accompany those who defend human rights.”
On November 20, PBI-UK also posted on social media:
“The Fight to Protect Defenders Just Got Stronger. PBI’s global teams just concluded a high-stakes exchange in Mexico City, focused on one thing: how to keep human rights and environmental defenders alive and working in the face of immense danger. We shared proven tactics, refined our threat analysis, and committed to a new strategy to make our most effective protection tools available to more defenders than ever before. Ben Leather, PBI UK Director: ‘Both PBI and the defenders we work with are thinking outside of the box to keep defenders safe and ensure they make change.’”
PBI-UK has further noted: “Protection experts from PBI’s field teams in Colombia, Costa Rica (covering Nicaragua), Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico, as well as colleagues from the International Secretariat [based in Belgium] and the UK office, joined forces [at this meeting in Mexico City].”
We continue to follow this work.
