Photo: At a meeting with Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa in September 2025, Peace Brigades International and the Civil Society Space of Organizations (Espacio OSC) highlighted the need to strengthen the Protection Mechanism in Mexico.
PBI-Canada and PBI-Mexico began a collaborative effort in September 2025 to strengthen both the federal and state level Protection Mechanisms for human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico.
– PBI-Canada seeks to get the Protection Mechanism on the agenda of the Mexico-Canada Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (December 1, 2025)
We have also been highlighting commentary and analysis on similar Protection Mechanisms in
The articles we have posted most recently on our website include:
– Colombian environmental defender Jani Silva continues to face threats, highlights need to improve Protection Mechanism (December 8, 2025)
– PBI-Guatemala attends the presentation of new public policy for the protection of human rights defenders (November 14, 2025)
– Canada calls on Honduras to strengthen its Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders at UPR intervention at the UN in Geneva (November 12, 2025).
In previous years we have also highlighted:
– PBI-Honduras sends condolences on the murder of CNTC campesino leader and land defender Olman Garcia (August 13, 2024)
– PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio OSC highlights Canada’s recommendation on the protection of journalists and human rights defenders (July 18, 2024)
– PBI-Honduras accompanies organizations presenting complaint about National Protection Mechanism for defenders (November 10, 2021)
– PBI-Mexico supports the Espacio OSC call on funding for the Protection Mechanism for defenders and journalists (September 30, 2020)
– Mexican journalist María Elena Ferral murdered, PBI-Mexico calls for improvements in protection mechanisms (April 9, 2020)
This year, look for PBI-Canada updates on an advocacy tour, webinars and more to amplify the demands of PBI accompanied defenders to strengthen the Protection Mechanisms that could help to save their lives.
