Frontera Energy is a Toronto-based oil company that has operations near the community of San Luis de Palenque, which is located about 450 kilometres north-east of Bogota. El Espectador has reported that Frontera operates 106 oil wells in the area. The company’s Cubiro Block reportedly produces on average 3,600 barrels Read more…
On March 4, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted, “Today we started an advocacy tour accompanying Casa del Migrante Saltillo in meetings with the legal teams of two organizations supporting migrants and refugees in San Antonio, Texas.” PBI-Mexico adds, “During the tour we will visit six cities in the United Read more…
On March 4, Michel Forst, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, addressed the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. To see his 12-minute speech, please click here. From 4:32 to 8:09, Forst commented on his visit to Colombia in 2018. He highlighted three main Read more…
On March 4, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied the BDH lawyers to the hearing of the La Cumbre case, Tactic. Three community members suffer a criminalization process being accused of aggravated usurpation in the context of eviction from their community in 2017.” PBI-Guatemala adds, “At the Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted that it is looking for field volunteers to join their team in Honduras. In 2018, eight international volunteers accompanied members of six organizations and one individual human rights defender working on business and human rights, land rights, indigenous rights, freedom of expression, support Read more…
On March 2, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on its Facebook page, “On February 24, we witnessed the second session of the oral and public trial against two members of the Campesino Fuerzas Unidas for the crime of land usurpation. We accompanied to this hearing the CNTC (the National Read more…
On March 2, Peace Brigades International-United Kingdom tweeted, “Celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2020 by learning about some of the inspiring women we work with!” The event page for an IWD event in Lewes (about 90 kilometres south of London) highlights, “Photographs of Women Human Rights Defenders, from Lawyers to Indigenous Grassroots Organisers, on Read more…
Today, March 2, is the fourth anniversary of the murder of human right defender Berta Cáceres, the co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). This morning COPINH posted on its Facebook page, “Berta lives, lives in the Lenca people who fight against those Read more…
Peace Brigades International accompanies defenders, communities and organizations in their work in defense of the territory and the environment in Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. From our accompanying work, we observe that those who defend nature and natural commons are among the groups that face the most risks for their Read more…
On February 26, Pamplona Actual reported on the ‘Living defending rights’ exhibition at the Burlada House of Culture It notes, “The exhibition aims to give a well-deserved recognition to all those people, organizations and communities that, facing violence and risk situations, work every day for the promotion of civil, political, Read more…