Who PBI Accompanies
Human Rights Defenders (HRDs)
PBI accompanies Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) as defined by the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1998):
Everyone who, individually or with others, acts to promote, protect, or advance human rights.
About Human Rights Defenders
HRDs may defend civil, political, social, economic, environmental, cultural, land, or Indigenous rights. Their work often places them at risk of:
- threats and harassment
- smear campaigns
- arbitrary detention or criminalisation
- surveillance
- attacks or assassinations
- forced displacement or exile
Who PBI Walks With
Across different countries, PBI accompanies a wide range of human rights actors, including:
- Indigenous leaders and communities defending ancestral land
- Environmental and land defenders confronting extractive projects
- Campesino and peasant movements
- Lawyers and legal collectives challenging impunity
- Women’s rights organisations
- LGBTQI+ defenders
- Journalists and community communicators
- Families searching for disappeared relatives
- Youth, student, and community organisers
- Organisations working against police and military violence
Each category faces specific risks shaped by local political and economic structures.
Current Field Projects
PBI responds to requests for accompaniment and currently maintains field projects in the following countries:
PBI accompanies land and environmental defenders, communities displaced by conflict, and legal advocacy organisations.
PBI supports Indigenous communities, anti-impunity organisations, and defenders of land and territory.
PBI accompanies Indigenous, land, LGBTQI+ and grassroots rights organisations.
PBI works with organisations addressing impunity, Indigenous and land defenders, and women’s rights groups.
PBI supports HRDs in remote regions through capacity-building and protection training.
PBI accompanies exiled Nicaraguan defenders, student and feminist movements, and Afro-descendant and campesino groups.
PBI maintains monitoring, mapping, and protection tools through local partners.
