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To register for this one-hour webinar, click here. The Canadian Friends Service Committee and Peace Brigades International-Canada invite you to attend a webinar on the export of Canadian military goods to Israel on Wednesday September 18 at 2:30 pm ET. September 18 is the 6-month anniversary of the House of Commons vote Read more…

Peace Brigades International (PBI) was founded on Grindstone Island, a small 11-acre island on Big Rideau Lake about 500 metres from shore, at a meeting that took place from August 31 to September 4, 1981. The island is situated on unceded Algonquin territory and the nearest town of Portland is Read more…

Photo by Justicia y Dignidad. PBI-Canada Board member Heather Neun participated in the VIII International Caravana of Jurists to Colombia from August 19 to 28. Neun was also there representing Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC). You can find her article about this delegation on their website here. The Colombian Caravana-UK Group Read more…

Still from RCMP video of arrest of Sleydo’ on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 19, 2021. An abuse of process application alleging excessive force by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) continues in a Smithers, British Columbia court room this week. Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, a wing Read more…

Key excerpts from the Executive Summary of the report “Defending Human Rights in Mexico: Silence and Impunity” include: “THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED collectively by the organizations Urgent Action for Human Rights Defenders AC. (ACUDDEH), the Cerezo Committee Mexico and the National Campaign Against Forced Disappearance. The figures we present correspond Read more…

Guapinol Resiste photo: Water defenders face “arbitrary detentions, murders, forced displacements, breakdown of the social fabric, surveillance, state violence, threats, and online and face-to-face defamation campaigns.” Community members and water defenders in Guapinol in the municipality of Tocoa in the department (state) of Colón in northern Honduras are peacefully resisting Read more…

Photo by Indepaz. The Bogota-based Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) highlights in this feature article in El Espectador the recent visit to Colombia of the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights. The visit was led by UN Working Group Chairperson Fernanda Hopenhaym and member Pichamon Yeophantong. Read more…

The Indigenous Community of San Francisco Quezaltepeque has posted on Facebook: “Today, August 9, we celebrate the international day of indigenous peoples from our Mayan Ch’orti’ territory in the sacred place 11 aj y cruz de la ermita, in the indigenous community of Quezaltepeque. With the participation of the ancestral authorities Read more…

Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watakhayetsxw (Deborah Good) says: “As of tonight, I am closing the Cranberry Connector from 11 kilometers to 31 kilometres. …I am closing the road and I will keep it closed. There will be no trucks permitted through the territory. No LNG equipment will be permitted through the territory.” Read more…