In these last few hours before the new year, we ask that you donate to help make possible our efforts to improve the security situation for human rights defenders in Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia. This includes six webinars to amplify the voices of these defenders to the world, encourage Read more…
Your support between now and the end of this year will shape what will be possible for us to do in 2025 and into 2026. As we continue to meet with accompanied defenders, we know that the situations they face are truly perilous, that the megaprojects they struggle against often Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada attended the Peace Brigades International General Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal this past November 11-13. The assembly brought together 35+ people to discuss a Global Strategic Plan that will inform our work through to 2030 and to debate and reach consensus on numerous proposals, including our proposal to Read more…
Photo from Governo do Pará, Brasil. More than 65,000 people are now attending the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) 29 Climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan that began last Monday November 11 and that is scheduled to conclude this coming Friday November 22. Will COP29 serve to enhance the protection Read more…
Peace Brigades International (PBI) was founded on Grindstone Island, a small 11-acre island on Big Rideau Lake about 500 metres from shore, at a meeting that took place from August 31 to September 4, 1981. The island is situated on unceded Algonquin territory and the nearest town of Portland is Read more…
Photo: Our just-released Annual Review opens with a quote from Indigenous Maya Poqomchi’ rights defender Sandra Calel (on the left) of the PBI-Guatemala accompanied Verapaz Union of Campesina Organizations (UVOC). Peace Brigades International has released its Annual Review 2023. It notes: “Peace Brigades International (PBI) protects and empowers human rights Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has just released its Annual Report 2023. You can read that in English here. Their annual report highlights: “Our mission is to protect action spaces for human rights defenders who are targeted by violent acts because of their work in defending and promoting human rights Read more…
On February 27, PBI-Colombia, PBI-UK and PBI-Canada collaborated on a webinar to help encourage people to be a field volunteer with PBI-Colombia. They are currently seeking new volunteers with an application deadline of March 2. For more about that, click here. This webinar featured former PBI-Colombia field volunteers Marie Zeller Read more…
German Romero Sánchez is a Bogotá-based lawyer with the Associated Network of Human Rights Defenders (dhColombia) that PBI-Colombia has accompanied since 2016. To meet him this Monday February 26, register here. His organization is made up of an interdisciplinary group of professionals, who assume the defence of victims of human Read more…
PBI-Colombia is seeking new field volunteers! We are working with them and PBI-United Kingdom on a webinar to encourage applications. The deadline to apply is Saturday March 2. To learn more about this, join us on Monday February 26 to hear Marie Zeller, a former field volunteer, and German Romero, Read more…