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Canadian government congratulates next Colombian president; concerns expressed about the safety of human rights defenders

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Video still: Abelardo de la Espriella. The Associated Press reports: “Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president...

UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders Bolaños Vargas: “Security does not only involve a hard security approach”

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Photo: Andrea Bolaños Vargas. Andrea Bolaños Vargas was appointed the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on March 31, 2026. In...

PBI calls on OECD to adopt binding measures to hold multinational corporations to account for human rights violations

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Photo: The OECD headquarters in Paris. Photo by MySociety. Peace Brigades International has signed a joint letter ahead of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...

RCMP CRU-BC vehicle seen at UBC Okanagan campus, CRCC systemic investigation report expected within months

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Photo by The Phoenix News of RCMP CRU-BC vehicle. PBI-Canada has been following the “systemic investigation” by the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) of...

Filipino president to visit Canada, plans to deepen military cooperation as attacks against human rights defenders continue

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Photo: Carney meets with Marcos, Jr., October 2025. On June 26, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that “the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand...

Israeli arms exports reach record levels in 2025, as does the targeted killings of Palestinian human rights defenders and journalists

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Photo: Canada’s new CC-330 Husky refueling aircraft will be equipped with technology supplied by Elbit Systems. The Israeli military has been implicated in the killing...

PBI accompanies Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation legal coordinator Andrea Torres Bautista on advocacy tour in Europe

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Video clip: Andrea Torres in Norway, June 19, 2026. The Madrid-based Spanish alternative newspaper El Salto reports that Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation legal coordinator Andrea...

PBI accompanies COPINH coordinator Bertha Zúniga Cáceres at UN in Geneva and on tour of European countries

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Video still from UN Geneva, June 19, 2026. On June 6, 2026, the Spanish news agency EFE reported that Bertha Zúniga Cáceres met with human...

PBI-Honduras accompanies ARCAH at press conference hours before National Congress passes “Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-industrial Sector”

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On June 3, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on social media: “Social organizations reject the Law for the Strengthening and Protection of the Agro-industrial...

Canada to attend World Defense Show in Saudi Arabia despite attacks against human rights defenders

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Photo by CADSI. The Ottawa-based Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), "the leading national voice of over 1,000 defence, security and emerging technology...
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