On January 17, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied members of Nuevo Dia [CCCDN] in an assembly in the community of Salitrón, San Juan Ermita, Chiquimula. They and they are defending their territory that is threatened by projects of the company ElectroRuta – Trecsa.” The Electroruta website Read more
On January 16, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Today we accompanied the BDH to the first declaration hearing of Juan Alecio Samayoa Cabrera, former military commissioner in the municipality of Chinique, Quiché.” “Samayoa Cabrea is accused of crimes of murder, attempted murder, violation with aggravation of the penalty, illegal Read more
On January 16, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied Nuevo Dia (CCCDN) to file a complaint in the MP [Public Ministry] of Jocotán, Chiquimula, for the threats they have received for their work to defend rights.” The stated aim of the Ministerio Público (Public Ministry) is to Read more
The Globe and Mail headline reads RCMP viewed B.C. Coastal GasLink protesters as ‘radicalized,’ court documents show. That article reports that on January 8, 2019, the day after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) raided the Gidimt’en checkpoint on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia, RCMP Sergeant John Uzelac stated in Read more
On January 15, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied the BDH [Human Rights Law Firm] to the Criminal Court of First Instance in Cobán. The lawyers, together with their CUC [Peasant Unity Committee] colleague, represent three community leaders accused of aggravated usurpation. Their community La Cumbre, Tactic, Read more
On January 14, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project shared a post that states, “María Josefina Caal Xol recently visited the offices of the United Nations Organization -UNU- in Geneva, Switzerland, to announce before a commission the criminalization that the State of Guatemala has exercised against her brother Bernardo Caal Xol, Read more
Indigenous Náhuatl land and water defender Samir Flores Soberanes was murdered in Mexico in February 2019 for his opposition to a proposed pipeline and gas-fuelled thermoelectric plant he feared would pollute local water supplies. On January 14, Front Line Defenders released its Global Analysis 2019 report. Their analysis reports that Read more
On January 12, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “The Supreme Court of Justice had scheduled a public hearing on the AHPN situation but rescheduled it for February 24. Meanwhile the Archive is left without staff.” The documents stored at the Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) have been Read more
On January 11, Common Dreams published our article Canada, the RCMP, and Human Rights Obligations to the Wet’suwet’en Nation. Common Dreams is a U.S.-based, news website that “works diligently to uncover and publish honest, independent news and information that you can rely on.” Their website notes, “We publish a diverse Read more
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted, “A call for applications to our 2020 Training Encounter. Applications will be accepted until January 31, 2020. All applications (with references) received until this date will be considered for the training and selection process leading to a training and selection encounter.” They add, Read more