Photo: The banner says: “No to dispossession! Long live the Indigenous resistance!” PBI-Mexico has posted: “From PBI Mexico we join in the expressions of concern about the violence faced by the communities of the Isthmus, especially against @UCIZONI [the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus]. Read more…
Image from the promotional poster for the webinar. PBI-Canada will be participating in a PBI collaboratively organized webinar this coming Monday February 24 (at 10:00 am in Colombia and Ontario/Quebec/Nunavut; 4:00 pm in Catalunya/Spain). The webinar is titled: “Who Bears the Cost? Impacts of the global economy and the risks Read more…
Photo by CIDH-IACHR. PBI-Honduras has posted: “Today [February 14] we were at the presentation and installation of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), who will work to investigate intellectual authority and related crimes following the murder of Berta Cáceres and will propose a comprehensive reparation plan to the affected Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “In the framework of the Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity, yesterday we accompanied the @fpdtampt [the People’s Front in Defense of Land and Water, Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala] in the press conference and delivery of documentation for Justice for the murder of the Read more…
Stand.earth says: “This March, B.C. Premier David Eby will be presenting the budget, giving him the perfect opportunity to defund and disband the Critical Response Unit (CRU-BC), formerly known as the Community-Industry Response Group. The C-IRG became very well known for their violent policing of land defenders opposing the Coastal Read more…
On February 12, PBI-Guatemala posted “Today #PBIaccompanies the San Francisco Quezaltepeque Indigenous Community in the ceremony of handing over of rods to the 23 new Indigenous Authorities of the recently created Council of Ancestral Maya Ch’orti’ San Juan Ermita Indigenous Communities and to 5 new Indigenous Authorities of the Maya Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted on Facebook: “On Saturday, February 8, #PBI accompanied the Human Rights Solidarity Network in Morelia, Michoacán, to a cultural rally to draw attention to the disappearance of the environmental defender José Gabriel Pelayo Zalgado. During the activity there were readings of stories and poems, a memory tree Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “We accompanied the Board of Directors of ASCAMCAT [the Catatumbo Peasant Association] in the Humanitarian Caravan for Peace: ‘Let’s embrace Catatumbo’ in the municipality of El Tarra, Norte de Santander, in the context of the escalation of violence that has been unleashed in Catatumbo since Read more…
Proceso notes: “Episode 2. With the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas in 1994, international brigadistas began to arrive in Mexico. Empathy with the indigenous rebellion led many to want to know directly about social injustices and protect – even as human shields – the Indigenous peoples who have taken up arms. Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted on social media: “We deeply regret the death of little Iker Andrés of the Humanitarian Biodiverse Reservation of the Wounaan community of Santa Rosa de Guayacán, and we extend our solidarity to the family and the entire community, who, with the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace, Read more…