Yearly Archives: 2025

As the Canadian prime minister travels to Mexico, PBI highlights the continuing dangers faced by human rights defenders and journalists

Photo: Irma Galindo Barrios, a 41-year-old member of the Indigenous Mixtec people, was forcibly disappeared on October 27, 2021, as she worked to protect...

Global Witness report: 18 killings and one disappearance of land and environmental defenders in Mexico in 2024

Photo: Carmen López Lugo was a member of the Chol indigenous community of Tila. On the night of January 12, 2024, Carmen was murdered...

PBI-Honduras accompanies activities on the one-year anniversary of the murder of environmental defender Juan Antonio López

On September 14, PBI-Honduras posted on social media: “Today we join the thousands of voices from all corners of Honduras and the world calling for...

Colombian environmental defender Jani Silva receives Hessian Peace Prize in Germany for protecting the Amazon Pearl campesina reserve

Photo: Jani Silva receives peace prize at the Hessian State Parliament. Photo by Stefan Krutsch. Colombian environmental defender Jani Silva has been awarded the Hessian...

Global Witness report: 146 land and environmental defenders murdered or disappeared in 2024

The findings of the just-released Global Witness “Roots of Resistance” report include: “In 2024, 146 land and environmental defenders around the world were murdered or...

PBI-Colombia joins with Nomadesc in mourning the murder of 17-year-old social leader Alan Josué Valencia Cuero

Photo: Alan Josué Valencia Cuero. The Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) has posted on social media: “In common union for life, with pain and...

The CSPP remembers Colombian union leader Luciano Romero Molina on the 20th anniversary of his murder

Peace Brigades International (PBI) remembers union leader Luciano Romero Molina on the 20th anniversary of his murder. The Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP),...

The governments of British Columbia and Canada back Ksi Lisims-PRGT fracked gas megaproject despite Indigenous opposition

Photo: Peace Brigades International visited Haida, Gitxsan, Gitanyow and Wet’suwet’en territories in June 2025 and learned about the on-the-ground resistance to extractive megaprojects, including...

Media reports highlight the major projects that Carney and Sheinbaum are likely to discuss on September 18-19

Photo: At the G7 summit on June 17, 2025, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Prime Minister Carney and President Sheinbaum “agreed to deepen bilateral collaboration at...

Microsoft technology reportedly used by Israel to surveil Palestinians, select bombing targets in Gaza

Video still: “What truly worries me is Microsoft’s complicity in this genocide” - Ibtihal Aboussad. A “Microsoft AI Tour” that features Matt Milton, the president...
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