Photo: A delegation from the Philippines, led by Defense Assistant Secretary for Plans and Programs Teodoro Cirlo Torralba III, at the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa on June 1, 2017. The sale of Bell-manufactured helicopters was finalized in December 2017. That sale was suspended in February 2018 after media coverage Read more…
Photo (from left to right): Frances Mahon, Shaylynn Sampson, Corey Jocko, Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham), Quinn Candler. Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, has posted on social media: “#Canada: In Feb, the B.C. Supreme Court found there had been racist & violent behaviour by the RCMP Read more…
Photo: Opposition to the Brookfield-owned Isagen “invad[ing] Wayuu indigenous territories and desecrat[ing] sacred sites to install wind power projects without consultation.” The Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. describes itself in a recent media statement as “a leading global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with over $1 Read more…
Video still of Adolfina Kuum from Lepemawil Timika. PBI-UK has highlighted the work of Adolfina Kuum, also known as Dolly. She is the founder of Environmental Care Community in Timika. Google Maps image marks location of Timika. Kuum says: “I see the basic rights of the [Indigenous] Amungme, Kamoro and Read more…
Photo: Canada’s Permanent Representative to the OAS, Ambassador Stuart Savage signed the Convention at the OAS headquarters in Washington, DC. On March 7, 2025. Photo by Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS. A Global Affairs Canada news release dated March 7, 2025, highlights: “The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Read more…
Photo: The banner says: “In Nicaragua there is a dictatorship we demand an end to the repression”. PBI-Nicaragua has posted on Instagram: “Another 8th of March in which Nicaraguan women cannot march in their country. For the past 7 years, Nicaraguan women refugees in Costa Rica, due to political persecution, Read more…
On March 8, PBI-Guatemala posted on Facebook: “Today, #PBI observes the march for the commemoration of #InternationalWomen’sDay. Different women’s groups showed their rejection and repudiation of hatred, discrimination, persecution, violence and decisions that violate the human rights of girls, adolescents, women and the LGBTIQ+ community. They also demanded the fulfillment Read more…
On International Women’s Day, PBI-Honduras posted: “Today we observe the march within the framework of #8March. The organizations of #women demand a halt to the structural #violenceagainst #women, greater access to the PAE [the Emergency Contraceptive Pill or “morning-after pill”] and greater protection for #women #defenders of #humanrights From PBI, Read more…
Photo: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) C-IRG officers during the November 2021 raid on Wet’suwet’en territory. Photo by Michael Toledano. Our questions: What is the current status of the CRCC systemic investigation of the C-IRG? What can be expected from it? What are key dates that have passed? What do Read more…
Photo: PBI co-organized side event in Geneva, February 27. On February 26, the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) issued a press release that stated: “Nicaragua’s Government has dismantled the last remaining checks on its power, systematically executing a strategy to cement total control of the country Read more…