On May 22, PBI-Honduras posted: “From PBI, we will be closely following the sentence of the @corteidhoficial [the Inter-American Court of Human Rights] after the hearing in the case ‘Garifuna Community of Cayos Cochinos and its members vs. Honduras’, which took place in Guatemala City yesterday. During the hearing, #defender Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “Today, May 22, PBI accompanies the Peoples Front [in Defence of Land and Water] Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala at a peaceful demonstration in San Andres Cholula that seeks the opening of dialogue tables with the Municipal Presidency, with the objective of initiating a conversation about the integration of Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “Last Sunday, May 18, PBI was invited by the Tosepan Cooperative, integrated by more than 200 communities of the Sierra Norte de Puebla, to accompany their assembly in which they discussed the security situation in the communities.” Tosepan Kali has explained: “Tosepan Kali, which in our Nahuatl Read more…
On May 22, a Keepers of the Water-organized webinar on the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders in Canada was hosted by Jesse Cardinal. The webinar featured Sleydo’ – Molly Wickham, Wing Chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation; Chief Na’Moks, Hereditary Chief, Read more…
Photo: Tear gas used against Kenya budget protests, June 26, 2024. Image from Wikimedia/Capital FM Kenya. We are at the one-year anniversary of the protests in Kenya against the Finance Bill, widely known as #RejectFinanceBill2024. The legislation was introduced by the Kenyan government on May 13, 2024, online protests began Read more…
On May 20, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Yesterday #PBI observes the continuation of the hearing of conclusions of the #mujeresachi [Achi women] case in which the court gave them the floor: “I represent the Achí women, I ask the court to pass sentence against the accused. I recognized them, I suffered in Read more…
The Cerezo Committee has posted: “30th Mendez Arceo National Human Rights Award in Cuernavaca, Morelos” El Sol de Cuernavaca reports: “Mothers of the Disappeared Receive Sergio Méndez Arceo Award for Their Struggle in Mexico.” “Veronica Rosas, mother of Diego Maximiliano, who disappeared in the State of Mexico, received the award Read more…
Journalist Carlos Ernesto Choc has shared on Facebook: “#Alert A member of the anti-mining resistance is murdered, from the 54 communities in Sierra Santa Cruz, jurisdiction of Livingston, Izabal, where the company Rio Nickel S. intends to operate. The name of the person who was part of the resistance was Read more…
Photo: Mario Calderón and Elsa Alvarado. On May 19, 2025, Colombia Informa reported: “On a day like today, in 1997, human rights defenders and environmentalists, Mario Calderón and Elsa Alvarado, were murdered in Bogotá. The crime, which continues to go unpunished, involved paramilitaries, the military, the Attorney General’s Office and Read more…
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…