Twenty-six year old International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has been killed in the West Bank. The International Solidarity Movement has issued a statement that says: “During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of [Friday] September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed Read more…
Key excerpts from the Executive Summary of the report “Defending Human Rights in Mexico: Silence and Impunity” include: “THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED collectively by the organizations Urgent Action for Human Rights Defenders AC. (ACUDDEH), the Cerezo Committee Mexico and the National Campaign Against Forced Disappearance. The figures we present correspond Read more…
Still from RCMP video of arrest of Sleydo’ on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 19, 2021. An abuse of process application alleging excessive force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) continues in a Smithers, British Columbia court room this week. Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, a Read more…
Peace Brigades International (PBI) was founded on Grindstone Island, a small 11-acre island on Big Rideau Lake about 500 metres from shore, at a meeting that took place from August 31 to September 4, 1981. The island is situated on unceded Algonquin territory and the nearest town of Portland is Read more…
Guapinol Resiste photo: Water defenders face “arbitrary detentions, murders, forced displacements, breakdown of the social fabric, surveillance, state violence, threats, and online and face-to-face defamation campaigns.” Community members and water defenders in Guapinol in the municipality of Tocoa in the department (state) of Colón in northern Honduras are peacefully resisting Read more…
Click here: The Yintah Access link to donate to help support the legal costs of the land defenders challenging RCMP C-IRG violence. On August 29, a media statement from Amnesty International notes: “A delegation with representatives from Amnesty International Canada, Amnesty International Germany and Front Line Defenders will attend next Read more…
On August 28, PBI-Honduras posted: “PBI observes the trial against defender Nolvia Obando through the live broadcast of the @PJdeHonduras [Judicial Branch of Honduras]. It is important that the public nature of the trial is respected. We applaud the work on behalf of #humanrights of the @RedDefensoras [the National Network Read more…
Photo by Justicia y Dignidad. PBI-Canada Board member Heather Neun participated in the VIII International Caravana of Jurists to Colombia from August 19 to 28. Neun was also there representing Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC). You can find her article about this delegation on their website here. The Colombian Caravana-UK Read more…
Photo: Corey Jocko, Shaylynn Sampson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham. Photo for The Tyee by Amanda Follett Hosgood; January 2024. As noted by Sleydo’ in this video from this past June, the abuse of process court hearing will resume this coming September 3-11 (next week!). The first part of the abuse Read more…
Image from BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response (Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee, August 28, 2024). Amanda Follett Hosgood of The Tyee reports: “On the heels of the last significant police action on Wet’suwet’en territory [against Indigenous land defenders opposing the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline], Read more…