CANSEC

1,358 Palestinian human rights defenders may have been killed over the last 10 months

Photo: Journalists holding placards protest the killing of journalist Mohamed Abu Saadeh in an Israeli attack on August 7, 2024. Photo by Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency. Front Line Defenders has noted: “People considered to be human rights defenders in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territory] include journalists, lawyers, medical workers, fieldworkers, international Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI co-founders Murray Thomson and Hans Sinn on NATO, nuclear weapons and disarmament

Photo: Murray Thomson, who co-founded Peace Brigades International in 1981, took part in the ‘Say No to NATO’ protest outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa on March 30, 2019. Thomson passed away on May 2, 2019. The 32 member-countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will collectively spend Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio OSC denounces Civil Force violence and water takings by Carroll Farms pig farms

Photo: The Civil Force in Veracruz. The Associated Press has reported: “Two people were killed Thursday [June 20] when locals protesting alleged water contamination by a pork processing plant clashed with police in the Mexican gulf coast state of Veracruz.” “Residents of the community of San Antonio Limon had been Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada: Canada exported military goods and technology to countries where 232 HRDs were killed in 2023/24

On May 31, Global Affairs Canada released its 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology report. If one looks at the list on pages 22-24 of that report of the non-US countries that Canada exported these goods and technology to and then compares that with the list of countries where Front Line Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

Global Affairs Canada report on military exports deepens concerns about the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa and human rights violations

While hundreds of people protesting the companies at CANSEC that sell weapons and technology that enable genocide, war crimes and repression encountered Ottawa Police Service officers with batons and truncheons, a cursory review of the countries that Canada sells “military goods and technology” to reveals substantial reason for concern on Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

While France and Chile ban Israeli companies from arms shows, Canadian government supports CANSEC

Photo: Riot police responded to the protest at the CANSEC arms show on May 29 in Ottawa against the Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems and other companies profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. While the Trudeau government provided unqualified support to the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa this past Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

Canada exported $30,641,495.83 in “military goods and technology” to Israel in 2023

Photo: Protest against the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa, May 29, 2024. The 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology report released by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) on May 31 notes that Canada exported $30,641,495.83 in “military goods” to Israel through 348 “utilized permits”. Of the twelve Export Control List Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Canada supports civil society call to suspend all trade in arms and military technology with Israel

Peace Brigades International-Canada has signed this statement calling for an arms embargo on Israel that, in part, says: “As the catastrophe wrought by Israel’s continued assault on Gaza grows, Canadian civil society organizations across multiple sectors are calling on the Canadian government to immediately suspend all trade in arms and Read more…

By Brent Patterson, ago