The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has posted on social media: “Today, PBI is attending the presentation of the #PublicPolicy for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. ‘Defending human rights is not a crime, it is an act of active citizenship and deep love for the country,’ said Marco Antonio Sandoval, Read more
On October 31, PBI-Guatemala posted on social media: “Yesterday PBI accompanied members of the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula at the seventh hearing of the criminalization case for their fight against mining in Olopa. It was the turn of two witnesses to the accusation, a member of the Read more
On October 24, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on social media: “Yesterday #PBI observed a Mayan ceremony in honor of the lawyer and defender of human rights Ramón Cadena. It was carried out by several indigenous communities and organizations and farmworkers which Ramón supported in the years of his Read more
Photo: On April 28, 2025, PBI-Colombia accompanied Nomadesc at a commemorations of the National Strike of 2021 and the demand for a Truth Commission to address the 75 murders and 3,000 cases of physical violence. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Global Rights Index 2025 reports: “Trade unionists paid the Read more
Photo: “With the celebration of a mass with the Franciscan brothers of Asunción Mita Jutiapa concluded the Guatemala chapter of the Mesoamerican Caravan, with the route to El Salvador.” Photo by AGIMS Asociación Grupo Integral de Mujeres Sanjuaneras. The Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Read more
The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project has posted on social media: On October 14, #PBI accompanied the intermediate stage hearing of the #CasoDiarioMilitar [Military Diary Case] case at the High Risk Court C. The plaintiff organizations Famdegua [the Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Guatemala], Bufete Jurídico de Read more
Photo: Rubén Amílcar Farfán was kidnapped on May 15, 1984. PBI-Guatemala has been accompanying the #CasoDiarioMilitar (Military Diary Case) court hearing process that began in May 2021. Most recently, PBI-Guatemala posted on October 14 that it had accompanied the intermediate stage hearing of the case in High Risk Court C. Read more
Video: The Caravana at a press conference in Coatepeque, Guatemala. The Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus in Defense of Land and Territory (APIIDTT) has announced that the Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life is now on its way from Mexico to Brazil for the COP30 climate summit. Read more
On October 8, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on social media: “#PBI accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa Chiquimula on a peaceful march to denounce the fact that the Los Manantiales mine continues to operate despite an injunction demanding its suspension, reforestation and clean-up. The municipal mayor Read more
On October 5, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on social media: “Today, #PBI observes the Guatemalan march denouncing the #Genocide in Gaza. Hundreds of people exercised their right to protest and free speech to show solidarity and denounce the various crimes suffered by the Palestinian people, recalling their own Read more