Making space for peace and human rights and averting climate breakdown are deeply interconnected issues. Philip Alston is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. His report — which will be formally presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this coming Friday — concludes, Read more
The Peace Brigades International – Mexico Project accompanied the Civil Observation Mission (la Misión Civil de Observación) to an information meeting today about the Ixtaca mining project in the south-central Mexican state of Puebla. Peace Brigades International-Canada Board member Paul Bocking travelled with PBI-Mexico for this accompaniment. Vancouver-based Almaden Minerals Read more
The Peace Brigades International – Mexico Project accompanied the media conference convened yesterday by three organizations: the Centre for Women’s Human Rights (Centro de Derechos Humanos de las Mujeres), the Center for Justice and International Law-CEJIL and Mexicans in Exile (Mexicanos en el exilio). PBI-Mexico notes, “They presented the petition Read more
Peace Brigades International supports NepalMonitor.org, a Collective Campaign for Peace(COCAP) protection and conflict prevention initiative. COCAP is a Kathmandu-based national network of 43 peace and human rights non-governmental organizations. As readers will know, Nepal is a country in South Asia bordered by China to the north and India to the Read more
The Peace Brigades International – Colombia Project recently accompanied the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (Credhos) to the dense forests of San Pablo in the San Lucas mountain area of the Sur de Bolívar region to locate the grave of a young man killed by an armed Read more
On June 17, Global Affairs Canada released the 2019 edition of Voices at Risk: Canada’s Guidelines on Supporting Human Rights Defenders. Their media release notes, “Voices at Risk offers practical advice for Canadian diplomats working around the world, and in Canada, to support human rights defenders who seek help. …The Read more
The Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission – CIJP) has tweeted its thanks to the Danish ambassador to Colombia Mogens Pedersen (second from the left in this photo) for his dialogue at their headquarters. In the same tweet, the CIJP also thanks the Peace Brigades Read more
Yesterday, the PBI – Guatemala Project posted (in Spanish) on their Facebook page, “We accompanied the BDH and the surviving women and victims of sexual violence in the CREOMPAZ case (Military Zone 21 of Cobán) in the Femicide room, to deliver a memorial in which they demand that a writ Read more
On Friday June 21, the PBI – Guatemala Project observed a ceremony in which Indigenous Achi Mayan women commemorated the National Day of Forced Disappearance. An estimated 45,000 men, women and children were disappeared during the 36-year-long internal armed conflict in Guatemala that began not long after a US-backed coup Read more
On Friday June 14, the PBI – Guatemala Project accompanied Marcelino Xol Cucul and Jorge Coc from the Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA) at a court hearing in the city of Cobán. PBI-Guatemala has explained, “The CCDA is a peasant organization that accompanies and advises communities, mostly indigenous, that Read more