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…
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project accompanied the Verapacense Union of Peasant Organizations (la Unión Verapacense de Organizaciones Campesinas – UVOC) at an assembly it held last week. UVOC is an indigenous and peasant organization dedicated to the defence and promotion of access to land in the context of historical dispossession Read more…
Activists and trade unionists who advocate for workers’ rights are by definition human rights defenders, and in many countries around the world that means they face immense risks. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association Maina Kiai has defined any person or organization defending labour rights Read more…
Eighty-four Peace Brigades International volunteers provided protection to human rights defenders in the field in 2018. To read more https://www.peacebrigades.org/en/publications/annual-reviews To donate to PBI-Canada to help us find volunteers for our field projects https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/id/45114/ Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=878081665874599 <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=878081665874599&set=a.5369033633257 66&type=3&theater> &set=a.536903363325766&type=3&theater
Murray Thomson, who passed away on May 2, co-founded a human rights group that has observed violations of Indigenous rights in Canada and protects human rights defenders around the world. Read more here.
A remarkable story of resistance is unfolding in eastern Guatemala. Nuevo Dia (the New Day Central Indigenous Campesino Ch’orti’ organization) is opposed to the Industria de Canteras y Minas (Incamin) SA-owned Cantera Los Manantiales antimony mine on the territory of the Indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ people. For over 40 days, Maya Read more…
The community-based Corporación Regional de Derechos Humanos (the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights or CREDHOS) works on a variety of public interest concerns in Colombia, including environmental issues such as opposition to fracking and stopping the pollution of freshwater. The organization is based in Barrancabermeja, which is known as Read more…
The Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP), an organization of eight women lawyers based in Bucaramanga and Cúcuta in northern Colombia, works on crucial public interest issues, notably the defence of territory. In 2016, CCALCP filed a challenge against Isagen’s Piedra del Sol hydroelectric project. The October 2017 report Defending Read more…