PBI-Honduras accompanies ARCAH defenders at hearing following complaint filed by poultry company owner

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…

Front Line Defenders documents the killing of 31 Palestinian human rights defenders, many by Israeli airstrikes

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…

Investigative Journalism Foundation reports that Bell Textron wants to sell helicopters to the RCMP

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…

Land and environmental defenders at risk as Canada, the US and UK pursue critical minerals for weapons

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…

PBI-Canada celebrates International Conscientious Objection Day and our founders who went to prison for refusing military service

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-Honduras observes hearing of three Los Pinares/Ecotek executive accused of illegal exploitation and damage to national park

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…

PBI-Canada concerned that Ring of Fire could be designated a “special economic zone” in September 2025

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…

PBI-Colombia present as CREDHOS witnesses the socialization of the JEP decision on the Magdalena River

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…