Brent Patterson

Canada participates in Balikatan exercise despite Philippine military implicated in killings of environmental defenders

Gitanyow sustainability director Tara Marsden warns Blackstone-backed PRGT pipeline would accelerate climate change

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor: “Canadian extractive mining companies are putting defenders at risk all over the world”

PBI-Honduras accompanied Indigenous COPINH water protectors demand justice for the Palestinian people

PBI-Colombia tells DW that Colombia is unsafe for rights defenders as European Commission lists Colombia as a “safe country”

PBI-Guatemala accompanies Indigenous Ch’orti’ communities as they defend water and territory from mining, coffee production

PBI-Guatemala shares statement from Indigenous ancestral authorities on the arrest of K’iche’ leader Luis Pacheco

PBI-Honduras accompanies National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) as it requests file awarding land to the October 18 campesina organization

PBI-Mexico calls for an end to the criminalization of 24 Indigenous land defenders opposed to Tehuantepec megaproject

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa as it files complaint against coffee company