E-newsletter

Peace Brigades International, Amnesty International and Front Line Defenders to monitor sentencing of Indigenous land defenders in Canada

Photo: PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson in front of the courthouse in Smithers, Wet’suwet’en territory, October 14, 2025. Amnesty International has posted this media release that highlights: “Amnesty International, Peace Brigades International and Front Line Defenders will be closely monitoring the sentencing this week [Wednesday October 15 to Friday October 17] Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada attentive to the journey of the Mesoamerican Caravan for Climate and Life from Mexico to Brazil

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

By Brent Patterson, ago

Espacio OSC conducts advocacy tour in Canada to raise awareness of the situation of defenders and journalists

Photo: Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván and Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera from Espacio OSC on Wellington Street in Ottawa in front of the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada. The Civil Society Space of Organizations for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists (Espacio OSC) has posted on social Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada observes protests at the DSEI arms fair in London, hears concerns about violations of human rights

Peace Brigades International-Canada observed the protests against the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair held in the United Kingdom at ExCel London from September 9 to September 12. DSEI involves more than 1,600 companies exhibiting, with 50+ countries invited including Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, France, Germany, Italy, Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada notes urgency and challenges of COP30, looks to community-based solidarity with frontline defenders

Photo: PBI-Canada and PBI-Colombia visited the emerging frontline resistance to the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) fracked-gas pipeline on Gitxsan and Gitanyow territories in June 2025. Photo by Brent Patterson. The Guardian reports: “Brazil has issued an urgent call for all countries to come forward with strengthened national plans on Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR) on March 22, World Water Day

On March 22, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today, on the #WorldWaterDay #PBI accompanies to the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu in their activities to vindicate their fight for vital liquid.” The Oxford Human Rights Hub has explained: “Guatemala’s constitution has several provisions that provide for or implicate the right to clean and Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Honduras visits the “Museum against Forgetting” with the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras

The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) has posted on Facebook: “#Memory #truth #justice #COFADEH During the internal tour, PBI visitors saw the building that was used as a detention space for large groups, according to survivors’ testimonies. They also visited a small building where Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico accompanies protest at Profepa as the people of Cholula demand the closure of the Calpan landfill

PBI-Mexico has posted on Facebook: “Today marks one year since the struggle of the Cholultec peoples in Puebla against the intermunicipal sanitary filling of San Pedro Cholula – Calpan. Yesterday, Thursday, March 20, PBI accompanied Frente De Pueblos Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala in the CDMX, in a peaceful protest demanding compliance Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-USA begins “Trump Watch” as rights-violating Executive Orders assault civil and human rights in the United States

Image from PBI-USA website. The e-mail subject line of the most recent Peace Brigades International-USA e-newsletter is “Trump Watch has begun”. PBI-USA notes: “It has been almost two months since Trump’s inauguration and the beginning of his issuance of a slew of rights-violating Executive Orders and each week we are Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nomadesc at meetings with state authorities in Bogota given threats faced by trade union leaders

The Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) has posted on social media: “Delegation of trade union organizations and human rights defenders of the Valle del Cauca [Cauca Valley], we meet in Bogota with the competent entities in the implementation of prevention and protection actions for human rights defenders and Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago