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…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted this call for field volunteers to accompany organizations, defenders and communities for a period of 18 months. Key dates include: March 2 – deadline to apply March 4-30 – 90-minute personal interviews with applicants May 8-12 – five-day virtual training/selection meeting June-July – Read more…
On January 26, PBI-Honduras posted: “We observe the trial of Henry Bonilla [Acevedo] for the burning of [tires in front of] the US embassy in a protest on [May 31st, 2019]. The @defencofadeh [Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras/COFADEH] denounces the criminalization of the national strike. Read more…
CBC News reports that it has obtained Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) video footage that shows the arrests at a blockade of work on the Coastal Gaslink fracked gas pipeline on November 19, 2021. That police video can be seen at Police footage shows arrests at Read more…
Photo: Image from BBC video of today’s ICJ ruling. The Guardian reports: “[International Court of Justice president] Judge [Joan E.] Donoghue says the court has decided that Israel must ‘take all measures within its its power’ to prevent all acts within the scope of the genocide convention. She says it must ensure Read more…