PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On Sunday [July 7], #PBI accompanied in the act of ‘presentation of the historical titles of the communal lands of the Maya Poqomam people of Santa Cruz Chinautla’. This research, initiated in 2018 with the expert lawyer Juan Carlos Pelaez, includes certificates of title dated in the Read more…
CREDHOS has posted: “The humanitarian search has an intrinsic value: solidarity. Many people accompany and support the search, feeling empathy for people living with uncertainty about the whereabouts of their loved one. From there is fundamental for the community, in which the different actors in the territory contribute to the Read more…
PBI-Kenya has posted two short video clips along with this text: “We are in Kilifi County in solidarity with the residents of Uyombo village who were brutalized by @NPSOfficial_KE [National Police Service-Kenya] while fighting against the proposed building of a nuclear power plant in their village.” On July 3, PBI-Kenya Read more…
PBI-Honduras has posted: “We recently met with the Women’s Movement for Peace ‘Visitación Padilla’ (Las Chonas HN). They shared with us about the proposed ‘Purple Alert Law for Disappeared Women’, submitted to the National Congress for approval. This has been worked on by different feminist organizations, including Visitación Padilla, and Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “Last Saturday [July 6] we were accompanying the 4th Consultation Forum in Sonora for the Strengthening of the Protection of Defenders of #HumanRights and Journalists organized by the @IniSinaloa [Initiative Sinaloa, a non-profit civil organization that works in defence of human rights].” Iniciativa Sinaloa also posted:”4th Consultation Read more…
APTN Video: The C-IRG on Gitxsan territory, November 2021. Construction on the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is now scheduled to begin on Saturday August 24. The 800-kilometre pipeline would carry fracked gas from Hudson’s Hope in northeastern British Columbia across Gitanyow and Gitxsan territory to the Ksi Lisims Read more…
On July 3, the Cerezo Committee posted: “Nadin Reyes Amaya, family member of Edmundo Reyes Amaya, announces the upcoming arrival of family members, human rights organizations, lawyers, social and political organizations, OHCHR [Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights], Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project for the 12th meeting Read more…
PBI-Honduras has posted: “Today [June 28], we celebrate International LGTBI+ Pride Day and commemorate the 2009 coup d’état. We also commemorate the life of trans advocate Vicky Hernandez: she was assassinated exactly 15 years ago, on the same day of the coup. Since the coup, LGTBI+ organizations have registered a Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Yesterday [June 30], #PBIaccompanies the Board of Directors of the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR) to the meeting with the Association of Farmers and Fishermen Integral of Champerico (Asogripezdich), a new association that since a few months ago joined the Council to defend together the right Read more…
Video: Chief Dtsa’hyl comments after his sentencing. The CBC reports: “A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief will serve a 60-day jail sentence under house arrest for disrupting pipeline construction through Wet’suwet’en traditional territory in northern British Columbia in October 2021.” The article continues: “During the sentencing hearing [in Smithers, British Columbia] this Read more…