News/Analysis
Latest News Updates:
- Ottawa Police Service receives $50 million in federal budget, intends to create a “permanent Special Events Team”
- PBI-Mexico works with the Observatory of Social and Gender Violence of Aguascalientes to strengthen their security strategies
- PBI-Guatemala accompanies Chinautla Multi-Sector as they peacefully resist illegal sand extraction and river pollution
- Alert: Death Threats Against Colombian Human Rights Lawyer Germán Romero
- PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS as FEDEPESAN shares their organizational experience with National University students
- inews reports on Elbit at weapons show in London, will The Breach be able to cover CANSEC in Ottawa this year?
- Multiple groups say “Shut Down CANSEC” arms show, call for independent inquiry into CADSI lobby group
- Nehirowisiw land defenders establish blockade to stop clearcutting on unceded Nitaskinan territory in northern Quebec
- PBI-Colombia accompanies the Justice and Peace Commission at Amazon Pearl Campesino Reserve Zone youth meeting
- PBI-Honduras attends PRO assembly as ASODEBICOQ defends environment from extractive projects in Santa Bárbara
Latest Organizational Updates:
- PBI-Canada co-organizes webinar encouraging applications to be a PBI-Colombia field volunteer
- Meet German Romero on Monday!
- PBI-Canada co-organizing webinar seeking field volunteers for PBI-Colombia, February 26
- PBI-Colombia seeks new field volunteers, deadline to apply is March 2
- PBI-Honduras observes trial of student activist accused of arson at US Embassy during national strike protests
- CBC News obtains RCMP C-IRG video of the arrests of Indigenous land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory in November 2021
- International Court of Justice delivers interim ruling, calls on Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in Gaza
- Twelve concerning things we learned about the RCMP C-IRG during the first week of the abuse of process hearing
- PBI-Colombia accompanied NOMADESC calls for protection measures after attack on Bahía Málaga in the rural area of Buenaventura
- PBI-Honduras visits communities in Tocoa as the Los Pinares ASP mining concession is set to expire on January 28
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