Binding Treaty

PBI accompanied defenders from Guatemala and Honduras meet with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Photo: PBI accompanied defenders with Working Group chairperson Fernanda Hopenhaym. PBI-Switzerland has noted: “Four PBI-supported human rights defenders participated in the UN Forum on Business & Human Rights in Geneva, as part of an international delegation representing environmental and social rights struggles.” They add: “Among the defenders supported by PBI Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada hosts webinar on UN COP and Binding Treaty processes and the protection of environmental defenders

On October 24, Peace Brigades International-Canada held a webinar focused on the United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia, the upcoming negotiations in Geneva on the UN Binding Treaty on business and human rights, and the crucial protection needs of environmental defenders. Target 22 of the framework being negotiated at Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

Can the UN COP16 conference in Colombia help save the lives of frontline environmental defenders?

Webinar speakers: Michel Forst, Yannick Wild, Berenice Celeita, Javier Garate. In his opening message today to the United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference in Colombia, UN Secretary General António Guterres said: “Our task at this COP is to move from words to deeds.” Those words, to be further negotiated at COP16, Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada to monitor 10th session of Binding Treaty that aims to protect the safety of human rights defenders

Photo: Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, the general coordinator of the PBI-Honduras accompanied Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), is part of the campaign supporting the creation of a Binding Treaty. The 10th session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Geneva notes violence related to business investments, calls for a Binding Treaty at UN Human Rights Council

During the Interactive Dialogue on Transnational Corporations at the United Nations Human Rights Council session on June 6 in Geneva, Switzerland, Peace Brigades International expressed “its concerns about violence in business investment contexts in Honduras, Guatemala and Colombia.” The full statement is as follows: “In Colombia, we continue to observe Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago