In 2025, we helped amplify the struggles of PBI accompanied organizations, defenders and communities through daily articles, webinars, and social media. We observed the sentencing hearing of Indigenous land defenders in Smithers, British Columbia, and hosted Mexican human rights defenders in Ottawa and accompanied their meetings with Members of Parliament to call for a strengthened Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico.
We also created the space or Indigenous West Papuan land defenders to share their experiences with a large global audience while they were at the UN COP30 climate summit in Brazil; highlighted PBI’s accompaniment of labour movement activists in Latin America; and researched the links between arms shows in Canada and the UK and the repression of human rights defenders around the world.
For more about what we did this year: “Making space for peace”: Peace Brigades International-Canada annual review 2025.
In 2026, we want to continue to work with the PBI-Mexico team and Espacio OSC to strengthen the Protection Mechanism that could better help keep human rights defenders and journalists alive; accompany Indigenous land defenders resisting major projects on their territories in Canada; and work with PBI teams globally who recognize the connection between increased military spending worldwide, the mining of critical minerals for weapons systems, and the risks faced by land and environmental defenders protecting their land and waters from this extractivism.
Three ways to donate to PBI-Canada
1- CanadaHelps.org
Click here to make a one-time or monthly donation. This platform automatically generates a charitable tax receipt for you.
2- Interac e-Transfer
You can make a donation by Interac e-Transfer by emailing your donation to direction@pbicanada.org. In the “Message” field, please note if you would like a charitable tax receipt and include your mailing address.
3- Cheque
You can also mail a cheque to our mailbox at: Peace Brigades International-Canada, Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 6H5.
Your donation helps to sustain the work of the one staff person and twelve volunteers at PBI-Canada who accompany front line defenders through communications, advocacy, networking and support for our protection teams.
Thank you.
