Photo: Stand With Neskantaga – We Love Our Land: “Meeting with our elders and our land user/defenders — looking at various burial sites and sacred grounds around the Attawapiskat River” in July 2025. On October 29, The Toronto Star reported: “Premier Doug Ford says he is ramping up plans to mine Read more
Image: Promotion for the public forum. On October 30, Peace Brigades International-Spanish State/ Euskal Herria co-organized a public forum on “Nonviolent civil resistance as a tool for peacebuilding”. The forum took place in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain. The speakers included Read more
While Mexican human rights defenders Elizabeth Mosqueda and Hugo Arreola were in Canada on an advocacy visit this past September, they were interviewed by RCI journalist Paloma Martínez Méndez. Today, RCI published her feature article: Canada asked to strengthen protection for defenders and journalists. Key excerpts from the article include: Read more
Peace Brigades International-Canada is reviewing news articles and commentary from civil society allies to develop an understanding about how Budget 2025 tabled by the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney today could impact the safety and security of PBI accompanied human rights defenders. Canada Strong: Budget 2025 can be read Read more
Video still: Tim Hodgson, the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Canada, speaks at the conclusion of the G7 meeting in Toronto, October 31, 2025. The G7 agenda that sees the mining of critical minerals as vital to “shared national and economic security interests” along with the need to “counter Read more
Video: “Dramatic Video Shows Militarized Canadian Police Raid Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders & Journalists” on November 19, 2021 (Democracy Now!) There are new questions and concerns about the status of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) investigation into the RCMP C-IRG (now rebranded as CRU-BC) following the news that “the Read more
Video: Green Party MP Elizabeth May asks in the House of Commons about the future of the CORE, October 20, 2025. On September 29, PBI-Canada and PBI-Mexico accompanied two representatives from Espacio OSC at a meeting in Ottawa with Terrence Cowl, the Deputy Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE). Then Read more
Photo: The camp at the Eagle’s Nest project. Photo from Wyloo. The Toronto Star reports: “Premier Doug Ford says he is ramping up plans to mine critical minerals in Ontario’s environmentally sensitive Ring of Fire after reaching a $39.5 million road-building partnership with a local First Nations community.” “The partnership Read more
Photo: “Armed attacks and risk of forced displacement in Coahuayula, El Ranchual and La Laguna de Calvillo, Michoacán”. Image from Red TDT. The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted on social media: “We express our concern about the situation of violence in Coahuayula, Michoacán. We reiterate the importance of safeguarding Read more
Photo: A PBI-Honduras field volunteer meets with representatives of the LGBT Rainbow Association of Honduras in Tegucigalpa. The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project is seeking field volunteers. In their Call for Volunteers, they highlight that they offer “the possibility of obtaining first-hand experience and knowledge in relation to the human rights Read more