JEP video still from ceremony on May 11, 2025. The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) has posted on Facebook: “The River has its own voice and a space in transitional and restorative justice. In Barrancabermeja, the victims of different collective and individual processes, the fishing communities...
Read morePhotos: Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia; “La Perla Amazónica” Campesina Reserve Zone in Putumayo, Colombia. Environmental defenders in the Putumayo region of Colombia and on Wet’suwet’en, Gitxsan and Gitanyow territories in Canada face a range of threats. In December 2023, Amnesty International Canada highlighted: “A new report by Amnesty International...
Read morePhoto: PBI-Guatemala with Carlos Ernesto Choc, February 2024. The latest Monthly Information Package (April 2025) from the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project notes: “At our twice-yearly assembly this April, we completed our analysis of the accompaniment request that we received from Carlos Choc, a Q’eqchi’ Maya journalist, human rights defender, and...
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Photo: Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the Israeli military on May 11, 2022. She was remembered at the June 1, 2022, protest against CANSEC. Three years ago today, on May 11, 2022, Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the back of her head by an Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “Mexico for #Mother’s Day, searching mothers gather across the country demanding justice and truth for the thousands of disappearances faced by Mexico. From @PBI_Mexico we accompanied marches and rallies in Mexico City, Morelia and Cuernavaca.” The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “Thousands of mothers marched this Saturday, Read more…
Photo from protest against CANSEC 2024. The large white banner says “Stop Profiting From War”. Peace Brigades International-Canada will be observing the Shut Down CANSEC mobilization against the CANSEC arms show this coming Wednesday May 28 starting at 7 am at the EY Centre in Ottawa. Information about Shut Down Read more…
Photo by Marco Hernandez/FGER. On May 9, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today #PBIacompanies in [the town of] Nebaj [in the department of El Quiché] the Association for Justice and Reconciliation -AJR- in the acts of commemoration of the historic sentence that condemned General Efrain Rios Montt for the #GenocidioIxil. “This is how Read more…
We encourage you to watch this upcoming Facebook Live webinar on Thursday May 22 starting at 12:00 pm MST (2 pm ET) featuring: – Sleydo’ – Molly Wickham: Wing Chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. – Chief Na’Moks – Hereditary Chief, Read more…
PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram: “On May Day, in commemoration of International Workers’ Day, we accompanied @FCSPP in the march in Bogota. During the march, an act of remembrance was held to commemorate 20 years since the murder of Nicolás Neira, which occurred on May 1, 2005, at the hands Read more…
Photo: “Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown at her camp and dog sanctuary, situated a few dozen metres from the projected right-of-way of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline.” Photo by Mike Graeme, November 27, 2024. Friends of Gitxsan Gitanyow have posted on Instagram: “Want to come help build a tiny house Read more…