On June 13, the Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project posted on their Facebook page that, “After several months suffering a situation of insecurity, confinement and humanitarian crisis, we celebrate the visit of different embassies and international organizations to the Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) Humanitarian Zone.” Nueva Esperanza was established Read more…
The Peace Brigades International – Mexico Project accompanied Cristina Auerbach of the Organización Familia Pasta de Conchos at meetings with political officials and a visit to the memorial site near the town of Nueva Rosita in the state of Coahuila. The explosion at the Grupo Mexico’s Pasta de Conchos coal Read more…
At 90 years of age, Hans Sinn continues to live a life dedicated to peace. This commitment can be traced back to his childhood experiences in wartime Germany. As a teenager, Sinn witnessed the death and destruction that came with the bombing of his home city of Hamburg during the Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project is asking past field project volunteers to volunteer again ideally between June and October of this year! The deadline to apply for this is May 28. All the details are here. Source: https://twitter.com/PBIcanada/status/1126961455637643265
On Sunday May 26, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied lawyers from the Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (Corporación Colectivo de Abogados Luis Carlos Pérez) at a public consultation in the city of Bucaramanga. That lawyers’ collective, made up entirely of women, speaks out on critical environmental issues including the Read more…
Today, Prensa Comunitaria reported (in Spanish) that, “Erasmo Ramos, a young Maya Ch’orti ‘ member of Nuevo Dia, attended a conciliatory hearing on Tuesday, May 28 for accusations against him by security personnel of a mining company.” Nuevo Dia (also known by the acronym CCCND) was accompanied at the hearing Read more…
The struggle against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia continues in Honduras. The statistics are grim. Between 2009 and mid-2018, 296 members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community in Honduras were murdered. Honduras also had the highest per capita number of transgender murders in the world between 2008 Read more…
This past weekend the Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project travelled on the Magdalena River with Credhos to the village of Puerto Matilde where Credhos provided a workshop on international humanitarian law to local residents. Puerto Matilde has been subjected to the armed conflict for decades. Credhos has been promoting Read more…
For more than 300 years, Quakers have been working for peace. That work emerges out of the Friends peace testimony that reflects a commitment to social justice, reconciliation, mediation, disarmament, and ending militarism. These Quaker principles also serve to inform their longstanding support for Peace Brigades International (PBI), a human rights group which Read more…
A massive march of more than 100,000 people took place in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia on Friday May 10. All of the media coverage of that protest is in Spanish. What happened that day and why? A mobilization to protect drinking water El Espectador reports that the protest march Read more…