On May 15, PBI-Honduras posted: “Yesterday, we accompanied human rights defenders Christopher Castillo and Manuel Chinchilla of ARCAH in an attempted conciliation hearing following a personal injury complaint filed by the owner of the poultry company El Cortijo. In recent years, ARCAH has filed several complaints against the company, among Read more…
Photo: Rally outside London court as judicial review begins. The Guardian newspaper reports that a judicial review took place last week (Tuesday May 13 to Friday May 16, 2025) over allegations that the British government “acted unlawfully” by “continuing to sell F-35 parts and components to a global pool, even Read more…
Photo: Palestinian journalist Hassan Hamad was killed by an Israeli drone airstrike in October 2024. In this photo, the 19-year-old journalist carries the photo of his colleagues Ismael al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi who were killed in July 2024. The Dublin-based organization Front Line Defenders (the International Foundation for the Protection Read more…
Photo: Bell Helicopters for Public Safety, Firefighting and Police Operations. Journalist Carly Penrose of the Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) reports: “The Mirabel, Que.-based company registered to lobby the federal government for contracts to sell rotary wing aircraft to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and to be part of the Read more…
In this joint policy briefing released today, May 15, 2025, seventeen organizations, including Peace Brigades International, warn that the UK government’s drive to secure minerals like cobalt, nickel and lithium could “fuel environmental destruction, human rights abuses and deepen global inequalities.” Their briefing cautions: “The mining and processing of critical Read more…
Photo: Then-22-year-old Gene Keyes (with Jane Gordon) burns his draft card on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1963, in front of a Selective Service System office (that administered the draft during the Vietnam War) in Champaign, Illinois. Keyes would later move to Nova Scotia, Canada and co-found PBI in September 1981. Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “We accompanied Credhos [the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights] in the village of El Guayabo and the peasant community of this territory in the act of recognition of the Magdalena River as a victim in case 08 before the JEP. CDG Order Read more…
On May 13, PBI-Honduras posted on Facebook: “Today, together with other national and international organizations and the diplomatic corps, in solidarity with the Municipal Committee in Defense of the Commons and Public Goods (CMDBC), we observed the hearing of conclusions of the initial hearing against three executives of the company Read more…
Video still: “We will defend our lands & waters.” From the 12-minute video “Neskantaga – We Love Our Land” by Allan Lissner. The area known as the “Ring of Fire” in the northern part of the Canadian province of Ontario has an abundance of rare-earth/critical minerals including cobalt, lithium, manganese, Read more…
JEP video still from ceremony on May 11, 2025. The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) has posted on Facebook: “The River has its own voice and a space in transitional and restorative justice. In Barrancabermeja, the victims of different collective and individual processes, the fishing communities Read more…