On June 30, 2001, Daniel N. Clark, one of the founders of Peace Brigades International in 1981, wrote this essay and posted it to his website. That would have been just prior to the 20th anniversary of the organization. As the 40th anniversary approaches, we share Daniel’s words and the Read more…
On February 18, NACLA reported on The Legacy of Samir Flores, One Year Later. That article shares the following story: Resistance to the Proyecto Integral Morelos (PIM) At this time last year, the Nahua community of Amilcingo, Morelos was caught in a series of social struggles. The government was about Read more…
There are numerous Canadian companies operating in Latin America whose operations have impacted human rights defenders accompanied or associated with Peace Brigades International field projects. An initial overview is as follows: COLOMBIA 1- Colombian social leader concerned about Canadian company fracking near Puerto Patiño, Cesar (March 19, 2020) Concerns have Read more…
Brent Patterson is the Executive Director of Peace Brigades International-Canada. Brent was active with Tools for Peace and the Canadian Light Brigade in support of revolutionary Nicaragua in the late 1980s and early 1990s, advocated for the rights of prisoners in jails and federal prisons as the Advocacy and Reform Read more…
Three Colombian human rights defenders will be visiting Canada shortly and one of the issues that will be raised during their speaking tour is the relationship between coca crops, the lack of implementation of the 2016 Peace Accord, the forced eradication of illegal crops through the aerial spraying of glyphosate, Read more…
RCN reports, “The president of Ecopetrol, Felipe Bayón, told RCN News that the company has in its schedule of operations the date of the second half of 2020 to drill the first wells of the pilot programs with the exploration system known as fracking.” Ecopetrol is Colombia’s largest firm and Read more…
This past July, the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) to observe the pollution in the Magdalena River caused by the oil industry in the city of Barrancabermeja. Peace Brigades International-Canada is working with PBI-Colombia to bring a representative from CREDHOS Read more…
The first PBI team arrived in Bogota in October 1994 and by January 1995 PBI had established a presence in Barrancabermeja in the Magdalena Medio region after an invitation by CREDHOS, the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights. The book Unarmed Bodyguards notes, “In the Magdalena Medio, PBI Read more…
The Luis Carlos Perez Lawyers’ Collective (CCALCP), an organization of eight women lawyers, works on key legal issues, notably the defence of territory. Its head office is in Bucaramanga (Santander) and it has a second office in Cúcuta (Norte de Santander). The Bari people and the loss of their territory Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada is looking forward to hosting CREDHOS President Iván Madero when he visits this country in early-November for a series of meetings and public forums focused on fracking, climate change, water protection and the increasingly fragile peace process in Colombia. The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has accompanied Read more…