Photo: Credhos president Ivan Madero, at the rally on June 11 in Barrancabermeja, with the caption: “Let’s go for the popular consultation”. On June 11, the Peace Brigades International accompanied Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Credhos) posted on Facebook: “Here we all say YES. Barrancabermeja says YES Read more
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “On May Day, in commemoration of International Workers’ Day, we accompanied @FCSPP in the march in Bogota. During the march, an act of remembrance was held to commemorate 20 years since the murder of Nicolás Neira, which occurred on May 1, 2005, at the hands Read more
Photo: CREDHOS marches in support of the popular consultation, May 1, 2025. On May 1, the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS), an organization accompanied by Peace Brigades International, posted on Facebook: “FOR THE DIGNITY OF THE WORKING PEOPLE, WE SAY YES TO POPULAR CONSULTATION! In the Read more
On April 28, PBI-Colombia posted on social media: “Four years after the social outbreak in Colombia, human rights organizations continue to demand truth, justice and reparation through the creation of a Truth Commission for the events that occurred during the protests from 2019 to 2021. In this week of commemoration, Read more
Photo: Wet’suwet’en land defender Molly Wickham, Gitxsan land defender Shay Lynn Sampson, Akwesasne Mohawk land defender Teka’tsihasere Corey Jocko. The Prince George Citizen reports: “In January 2024, [BC Supreme Court Justice Michael] Tammen found Wet’suwet’en Nation’s Molly Wickham (aka Sleydo’), Gitxsan member Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko, a Mohawk from Read more
Photo: In April 2015, Public Safety Canada’s Government Operations Centre (GOC) reportedly saw Unist’ot’en opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline as a risk to Canada’s “national interest”. By January 2019, “Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of [the Coastal GasLink pipeline] in northern British Columbia, Read more
Photos: Israel has reportedly deployed Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets in “beast mode” (carrying internal and external weapons weighing up to 22,000 pounds); Palestinian families grieving following airstrikes on Gaza last night. On March 18, Aljazeera reported: “At least 404 Palestinians have been killed and 562 wounded as Israel launched Read more
Image from The Breach Show. Wet’suwet’en land defender Molly Wickham, also known as Cas Yikh wing chief Sleydo’, recently met with journalist Desmond Cole in Toronto for an interview about the resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline for The Breach Show podcast. The full interview can be found here. Key Read more
Photo: A delegation from the Philippines, led by Defense Assistant Secretary for Plans and Programs Teodoro Cirlo Torralba III, at the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa on June 1, 2017. The sale of Bell-manufactured helicopters was finalized in December 2017. That sale was suspended in February 2018 after media coverage Read more
Photo: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) C-IRG officers during the November 2021 raid on Wet’suwet’en territory. Photo by Michael Toledano. Our questions: What is the current status of the CRCC systemic investigation of the C-IRG? What can be expected from it? What are key dates that have passed? What do Read more