Canada should act on UN resolution on Wet’suwet’en land defenders Add your name to this petition and an email will automatically be sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The Trudeau government is stepping up its efforts to win a vote on June 17th for a seat on the United Nations Read more
Urgent Action: Support the UN Secretary-General’s call for a global ceasefire Add your name and email address to this petition that will automatically be sent to Prime Minister Trudeau… On March 23, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called “for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world.” He highlighted Read more
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project is asking past field project volunteers to volunteer again ideally between June and October of this year! The deadline to apply for this is May 28. All the details are here. Source: https://twitter.com/PBIcanada/status/1126961455637643265
On Sunday May 26, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied lawyers from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (Corporación Colectivo de Abogados Luis Carlos Pérez) at a public consultation in the city of Bucaramanga. That lawyers’ collective, made up entirely of women, speaks out on critical environmental issues including the Read more
Today, Prensa Comunitaria reported (in Spanish) that, “Erasmo Ramos, a young Maya Ch’orti ‘ member of Nuevo Dia, attended a conciliatory hearing on Tuesday, May 28 for accusations against him by security personnel of a mining company.” Nuevo Dia (also known by the acronym CCCND) was accompanied at the hearing Read more
The struggle against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia continues in Honduras. The statistics are grim. Between 2009 and mid-2018, 296 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Honduras were murdered. Honduras also had the highest per capita number of transgender murders in the world between 2008 Read more
This past weekend the Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project travelled on the Magdalena River with Credhos to the village of Puerto Matilde where Credhos provided a workshop on international humanitarian law to local residents. Puerto Matilde has been subjected to the armed conflict for decades. Credhos has been promoting Read more
For more than 300 years, Quakers have been working for peace. That work emerges out of the Friends peace testimony that reflects a commitment to social justice, reconciliation, mediation, disarmament, and ending militarism. These Quaker principles also serve to inform their longstanding support for Peace Brigades International (PBI), a human rights group which Read more
A massive march of more than 100,000 people took place in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia on Friday May 10. All of the media coverage of that protest is in Spanish. What happened that day and why? A mobilization to protect drinking water El Espectador reports that the protest march Read more