Issues

PBI-Canada notes language on trade unions and workers in UN talks on a Binding Treaty on business and human rights

Photo: United Nations Headquarters, Geneva. Photo by John Samuel. The United Nations Human Rights Council open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (OEIGWG) held its 11th negotiation session on a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights from October 20 to 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

PBI-Guatemala accompanies court hearings on Military Diary case; trade unionists among those forcibly disappeared by army and police

Photo: Rubén Amílcar Farfán was kidnapped on May 15, 1984. PBI-Guatemala has been accompanying the #CasoDiarioMilitar (Military Diary Case) court hearing process that began in May 2021. Most recently, PBI-Guatemala posted on October 14 that it had accompanied the intermediate stage hearing of the case in High Risk Court C. Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico accompanies Espacio OSC on advocacy tour in Canada, notes Protection Mechanism excludes union activists

Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván and Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera from the Civil Society Space of Organizations (Espacio OSC) in Mexico recently concluded their visit to Ottawa where they highlighted proposals to improve the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. They were accompanied by Manuel Jabonero Prieto, the advocacy Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Nomadesc calls for the annulment of Resolution 294 in Colombia, will commemorate union activists killed in the Banana Massacre

The Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) is calling for social organizations, human rights defenders and Colombian social movements to join with them and sign a letter in opposition to Resolution 294. The letter expresses “rejection and indignation at Resolution 294 issued by the Presidency of the Republic in Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

The CSPP remembers Colombian union leader Luciano Romero Molina on the 20th anniversary of his murder

Peace Brigades International (PBI) remembers union leader Luciano Romero Molina on the 20th anniversary of his murder. The Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP), an organization accompanied by PBI, has posted on Instagram: “Luciano Romero Molina was a union leader, human rights defender and member of the CSPP. As Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Nomadesc in Colombia expresses solidarity with CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants

The Peace Brigades International accompanied Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) in Colombia has expressed its solidarity with the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Nomadesc posted on social media: “From Colombia, we send a message of recognition and solidarity to CUPE SCFP and Air Canada flight attendants for Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Colombia accompanies Nomadesc at general assembly held by Buenaventura Civic Strike Committee

Photo by the Buenaventura Civic Strike Social Movement. PBI-Colombia has amplified this post from Nomadesc on Instagram: “On Saturday, August 23, the Executive Committee of the Buenaventura Civic Strike held its Ordinary General Assembly, a meeting that brought together communities to discuss the progress made in the movement’s nine thematic Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada notes Unifor resolution in support of Palestinian workers and their call for an arms embargo on Israel

Photo: Aminah Sheikh, Vice President of the Canadian Freelance Union (CFU), speaks in support of the resolution at the Unifor convention. Photo by Laura Avalos. The Unifor Constitutional Convention in Vancouver has just passed a resolution that endorses “the call by Palestinian trade union for an arms embargo on Israel”. Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Honduras accompanies the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) at meeting with the French Embassy

On June 17, PBI-Honduras posted: “Yesterday, PBI accompanied the CNTC [National Union of Rural Workers] El Progreso in a meeting with the French Embassy in Honduras and French journalist Alice Campaignolle. The CNTC expressed its concern about evictions and the criminalization of peasant communities. Agrarian reform was also discussed. PBI Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago