Peace Brigades International accompanies numerous emblematic water justice struggles in Latin America. Some of those include: COLOMBIA Water pollution: PBI-Colombia accompanies the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) who in turn accompanies the Federation of Santander Fishers for Tourism and Environment (FEDEPESAN). Their struggle includes the pollution Read more…
The Campo Rubiales oil field, in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, Colombia, was operated by the Canadian oil company Pacific Rubiales Energy in association with Ecopetrol. Rutas del Conflicto has reported: “A notice at the entrance to the Rubiales-Piriri and Quifa oil complex noted that visitors were entering a piece of Canada in Read more…
Chart from Institute for Policy Studies. Of the six pending mining company arbitration claims against Colombia, four relate to Canadian companies. Those are Vancouver-based Eco Oro Minerals and Red Eagle Mining and Toronto-based Galway Gold and GCM (formerly Grand Colombia Gold). The US dollar amount of those pending claims total Read more…
Photo: CREDHOS president Ivan Madero along with Andrea Nocove and Julia Figueroa from CCALCP outside the Brookfield office in Toronto, Canada during a Peace Brigades International-organized advocacy tour in November 2019. Mongabay reports: “In La Playa, a fishing village of around 500 people in Santander, Colombia, well-kept houses and vibrant Read more…
World Beyond War will be holding their #NoWar2022: Resistance & Regeneration virtual global conference this coming July 8-10. World Beyond War notes: “Hosted virtually through the Zoom Events platform, #NoWar2022 will facilitate international solidarity by bringing together speakers and attendees from around the world. #NoWar2022 will highlight unique stories of Read more…
On June 7, PBI-Honduras tweeted: “Last week we accompanied @Arcah_hn to the poultry company ‘El Cortijo’ whose toxic waste, warns the organization, is contaminating the Choluteca River and generating bad odors that affect the health and well-being of the people who live in the area.” On Facebook, PBI-Honduras adds: “From Read more…
On April 29, 2022, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on Canada to stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia. The letter from Verene Shepherd, the Chair of the Committee, to Leslie E. Norton, the Ambassador Read more…
Verene Shepherd; RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 2021; Canadian Ambassador Leslie E. Norton. On April 29, 2022, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on Canada to stop the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline and the Trans Mountain tar sands oil pipeline. Read more…
Today, March 22, is World Water Day. We present below a compilation of just a few of the World Water Day messages posted to social media by struggles accompanied by Peace Brigades International. Guapinol River defenders in Honduras Guapinol Resiste tweeted: “For standing up to protect the water, 8 defenders Read more…
Francisco and Emiliana Cerezo founded the Comité Cerezo when their brothers Alejandro, Hector and Antonio along with Pablo Alvarado Flores were arrested on August 13, 2001. Alejandro was released on February 28, 2005. Pablo completed his sentence on August 13, 2006. Antonio and Héctor were freed on February 16, 2009. Read more…