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Annual review: PBI-Canada’s “transformative proposition” of extending PBI’s protective accompaniment into a “Northern” territory

Peace Brigades International has released its Annual Review for 2024 titled Together We Rise: Standing Up for Equality, Justice, and the Future of Our Planet. Holistic protection  It notes that “PBI takes a holistic view of protection” that includes: Protective accompaniment: Highly trained volunteers from around the world physically accompany Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada notes international court’s ruling that Honduras provide protection measures for Mabel Robledo, report by November 7

Photo: On October 31, 2024, PBI-Honduras and PBI-Canada visited with Mabel Robledo in Nueva Armenia on Garifuna territory in Honduras. The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) has noted: “Mabel Robledo is quiet but firm, qualities she uses to lead the Nueva Armenia Land Defense Committee, Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Honduras observes court hearing of two police officers accused of falsifying evidence to protect those responsible for the murder of Berta Cáceres

On October 28, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on social media: “Yesterday, we observed the hearing against Juan Carlos Cruz of the Police Directorate of Investigations (DPI) and the ex-police Miguel Arcangel Rosales, accused of covering up the murder of Berta Cáceres by crimes of misuse of records intended Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala observes Mayan ceremony in honour of Ramón Cadena, lawyer criminalized in the USAC case

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Kenya visits with the Indigenous Ogiek peoples, hears about erasure and forced displacement from ancestral lands

The Peace Brigades International-Kenya Project visited the Ogiek community in Sasumwani, Narok County, in collaboration with the Ogiek People’s Development Programme, in early-July 2025. PBI-Kenya visited to “support ongoing psychosocial healing and accompany community-based human rights defenders in their efforts.” The PBI-Kenya article about this can be read at: No Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation as it honours Yanette Bautista, launches network and campaign on Law 2364

The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted on social media: “We accompany @fundacionnydiaerikabautista [the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation – FNEB] on National Women Searchers Day, in an act of recognition for those who have contributed tirelessly to uncovering the truth in Colombia. We celebrate the strength of sisterhood among women Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Alternative Federal Budget 2026 notes importance of Canada supporting human rights defenders

Photo: Finance minister François-Philippe Champagne will table the next federal budget on November 4, 2025. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has just released its Alternative federal budget 2026. PBI-Canada notes the inclusion of human rights defenders in this AFB. In the AFB chapter on International cooperation notes: “Demonstrating Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Union activists continue to face death threats and physical attacks in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada attentive as Mesoamerican Caravan learns about the Canadian Aura Minerals “Era Dorada” mine in Jutiapa, Guatemala

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Honduras visits National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) community of 17 de Junio whose members are being criminalized for land “usurpation”

The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media: “Yesterday [October 23, 2025], we made a visit to the peasant base June 17 of the National Central of Field Workers – CNTC Progreso. On the same day, the judiciary in Villanueva (Cortés) canceled for the third time the initial Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago