Text: Global experts say no to ISDS. 300+ groups around the world call on countries to start freeing themselves from secretive tribunals.
Peace Brigades International has signed this statement in advance of a conference, hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands, that will take place in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24 to April 29, 2026.
The statement was signed by 340+ other organizations, notably the Colectivo de Abogados y Abogadas José Alvear Restrepo (CAJAR) in Colombia; the Residencia Pacífica La Puya in Guatemala; the Red de abogadas defensoras de derechos humanos in Honduras; and the Proyecto sobre Organización, Desarrollo, Educación e Investigación (PODER) in Mexico.
The statement says in part:
“Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) threatens a just transition from fossil fuels and the urgent need for a social and ecological transformation for people and the planet. We welcome the recognition and inclusion of this risk within the thematic pillars of the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels.
ISDS mechanisms are written into many trade and investment agreements. They entitle transnational corporations to sue governments in secretive tribunals outside of the national legal system over law and policy changes that they fear could reduce their profits. ISDS grants privileges to foreign investors that are unavailable to local businesses or ordinary citizens – especially the peoples and communities most affected by their investments.
We call on governments to begin building a coalition of governments committed to freeing themselves from all forms of ISDS.”
Stakeholder-led dialogues will take place from April 24-27, while the High-Level Segment will take place on April 28-29.
Those invited to the High-Level Segment include Ministers, representatives from sub national governments and cities, academia, the scientific community, Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant communities, frontline collectives, workers, and civil society organizations, among others.
PBI-Canada will be attending the presentation on Wednesday April 29 at Carleton University in Ottawa by Danilo “Ka Daning” Ramos, National Chairperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP/Peasant Movement of the Philippines).
PBI recently launched a Southeast Asia Project to accompany human rights defenders in the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP-Canada) has previously highlighted: “Ka Daning, a farmer himself, is a staunch human rights defender and environmentalist. KMP has effective leadership over a total of 1.3 million rural people with 65 provincial chapters and 15 regional chapters nationwide.”
AlterMidya has reported: “Ka Daning is a survivor of the 1987 Mendiola Massacre. He was among the tens of thousands of poor farmers from Luzon who marched to the then Ministry of Agrarian Reform and later to Mendiola. They were demanding free land distribution to the then Cory Aquino administration when the Philippine Constabulary (now PNP), opened fire at the protesting farmers, killing 13 and injuring scores of others.”
In February 2024, PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) expressed “deep concern about the reported incidents of surveillance and red tagging that Danilo Ramos, chairperson of the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP), has recently faced.”
They further noted: “Many cases of human rights violations, including political killings, involve activists red-tagged by the government. We are outraged that Ramos is facing real threats to his life for standing up for the rights of landless Filipino peasants.”
Attacks on HRDS in the Philippines
In September 2025, Global Witness stated: “Once again, the Philippines had the highest number of murders and long-term disappearances in Asia, with eight cases in 2024 – despite seeing a decrease in cases since 2023. At least six of these attacks were linked to government bodies, notably the armed forces in four cases. But violent attacks against land and environmental defenders – and killings and disappearances of human rights defenders more broadly – have not necessarily abated.”
Global Witness adds: “Filipino human rights alliance Karapatan documented 14 killings of human rights defenders in 2024.”
Between 2012 and 2023, at least 298 defenders were killed in the Philippines (the third highest in the world after Colombia and Brazil). The military was responsible for 64 out of 117 killings of Indigenous defenders in the Philippines during this period.
Ramos in Ottawa, April 29
In their promotion of Ramos speaking on April 29, Anakbayan Ottawa notes: “We will discuss the many struggles imposed upon Filipino farm workers and the Filipino population as a whole.”
“’The security situation is going to worsen,’ warns the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods (CMDBCP).
In a meeting with PBI, the community of #Guapinol reported several signs that the thermoelectric plant is resuming operations, such as a lower river flow, evidence of earthmoving, and alleged hiring of staff in the area.
Added to this is the upcoming hearing regarding charges against Lenir Pérez, president of the group that operates the Los Pinares mining company, for illegal exploitation of natural resources in a protected area.
‘These three things—the trial, the possible reopening, and our security situation—go hand in hand,’ explain the defenders, who are calling for attention to the judicial proceedings taking place this Thursday and Friday.
Earlier this month, Criterio.hn reported: “Businessman Lenir Pérez, linked to the mining project denounced by Juan López and other defenders in the protected area, through the companies Inversiones Los Pinares and Inversiones Ecotek, both of the Emco Holding Group. Although Pérez is accused of crimes of illegal exploitation of natural resources and environmental damage in the Montaña de Botaderos Carlos Escaleras National Park, a judge recently allowed him to defend himself in freedom after paying a millionaire bail, without imposing restrictions such as the prohibition of leaving the country. The decision came amid questions about delays in the process, after the businessman’s representatives argued that he was not in the country.”
In March 2026, Criterio.hn also reported: “The indictment against Lenir Pérez and twelve other people for their alleged responsibility for environmental damage was filed nine days after the murder of the environmental leader and water defender, Juan López, coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa, a crime that continues in impunity.”
Accompaniment
The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has accompanied Municipal Committee for the Defence of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa (CMDBCPT) processes and Guapinol River defenders since January 2019.
PBI-Canada visited Tocoa and the Guapinol River in 2024.
On October 29, 2024, we drove almost 350 kilometres north-east from Tegucigalpa to the city of Tocoa, which is situated about 9 kilometres from the community of Guapinol. This visit came in the context of the death of Guapinol River defender Juan López, who was shot to death as he left church on the evening of September 14, 2024.
Photo: A poster of Juan López in Tocoa.
On the afternoon of October 30, 2024, we visited the Guapinol River, seeing the pelletizing plant associated with the Los Pinares megaproject, walked in the community, and met with community members to hear about the situation there.
Photos: PBI at Guapinol River in October 2024 and April 2026.
Photo shared by CNTC on social media of Black Mamba Sandcat armoured vehicle at eviction of ‘9 de Febrero’ community.
In March 2026, PBI-Canada alongside PBI-Honduras met with the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) in Tegucigalpa. Part of our conversation focused on the equipment and weapons used by the police and military to repress and arrest peasant farmers (campesinas and campesinos).
The U.S. International Trade Commission notes: “Major exporters of security equipment to Honduras are Israel, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States.” In 2019, Israel was the largest supplier of arms to Honduras.
ContraCorriente has reported: “Israel has been one of Honduras’ most important partners for the purchase of security equipment. Data from the School of the Americas Watch indicate that between 2013 and 2019 alone, during the governments of Juan Orlando Hernández, Honduras bought around 342.8 million dollars (about 8,344 million lempiras) from Israel in war equipment and espionage.”
That relationship is likely to continue.
On January 18, 2026, ten days before being sworn in as the president of Honduras, Nasry Asfura flew to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu told Asfura: “I look forward to working with your government, both in economic fields and agriculture and technology in any of the areas that I think are laid before us. You should know that as far as Israel is concerned, the sky is the limit.”
Human rights violations
The Database of Israeli Military and Security Export (DIMSE) has noted: “Some units associated with abuse of authority, illegal detentions, homicide, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings and extensive use of force against demonstrators and activists use Israeli rifles (namely Tavor and Galil, surveillance systems, and cyber technologies.”
The article specifies that Tavor rifles are used by the National Anti Maras and Gangs Force (FNAMP) and the Galil rifles by the Military Police for Public Order (PMOP).
The Database also reports: “The Police Directorate of Investigations used [the Israeli company] Cellebrite for 939 phone extractions between 2017-2022. Among others it was used against environmental activists. …Official documents show that at least part of the Cellebrite systems were provided to Honduras by the US Department of State.”
CNTC condemns use of Black Mamba Sandcat armoured vehicles
On April 9, 2026, the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) condemned the eviction of the ‘7 de Febrero’ farming community.
The CNTC statement further notes: “We condemn the excessive military and police deployment, including the use of ‘Black Mamba’ armoured combat vehicles, which were used against humble families, treating them as if they were ‘terrorists’ or highly dangerous criminals.”
ContraCorriente has reported: “In 2023, a delegation of senior commanders of the Honduran National Police traveled to Israel to finalize the acquisition of technological security equipment, including 15 Black Mamba Sandcat armored vehicles for use in high-impact operations.”
It then notes: “[Honduran Security Minister Gustavo] Sánchez also did not specify where they were purchased; however, Israel’s ambassador to Honduras announced that he had been part of a collaboration with his government.”
And it explains: “The Mexican companies Transportadora de Protección y Seguridad (TPS Armoring) and Epel Tácticos obtained the license [from the U.S.-based company Oshkosh] to manufacture versions of the security equipment in their territory, including the Black Mamba Sandcat model, and it was precisely the company TPS Armoring that sold the equipment to Honduras.”
In February 2024, the Rio Times reported: “The Black Mambas are a joint effort by Mexican companies TPS Armoring and Epel Tácticos. …These vehicles, adapted from an Israeli design, signify how global technology can be tailored to local needs.”
And in June 2024, Proceso Digital explained: “The Honduran government bought 10 Black Mamba, six of which arrived in the country, the payments were made against delivery to an Israeli company that assembled them in Mexico.”
That article adds: “Each Black Mamba Sandcat cost Honduras a total of 13,052,500 lempiras ($526,573). The Black Mamba Sandcat or ‘Police Armadillo’ vehicles have modern security systems, weigh 8.2 tons, have state-of-the-art technology and spaces for 13 special forces agents with specialized drivers. The APC vehicle is part of a family of armored vehicles called Black Mamba and are the result of a partnership between two Mexican armor companies, TPS Armoring and Epel Tácticos, which developed a version for Mexican security needs based on the successful Israeli Sandcat.”
Arms fairs
ContraCorriente also reports: “The [Israeli ambassador to Honduras explained that] at the end of 2022, a high-level delegation attended a security technology fair [in Israel] where they chose security equipment [including] the Black Mambas.”
This could refer to Israel’s Defense Exposition (ISDEF) or perhaps more likely given the timing (late 2022), the Defense Tech Expo.
In April 2022, +972 Magazine reported: “ISDEF, the largest defense and homeland security trade show in the country, takes place every other year at Expo Tel Aviv. The most recent edition, hosted between March 21 and 23, drew 12,000 visitors from 90 countries around the world; most of them were representatives of private technology firms, police agencies, and militaries.”
DSEI
The United Kingdom-based Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has explained that the International Defense Cooperation Directorate of the Israel Ministry of Defense (SIBAT) promotes Israeli arms exports around the world. CAAT adds that SIBAT regularly attends arms fairs around the world including DSEI in the UK.
CANSEC
The Canadian Association of Defense and Security Industries, the organizer of the annual CANSEC arms show, has noted that Israel will be one of the 60+ international delegations at CANSEC this coming May 27-28 in Ottawa.
It is further believed that SIBAT will be present.
Accompaniment
On March 3, 2026, PBI-Honduras, PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson met with Franklin Almendares, General Secretary, and Rosa Santamaría, member of the National Board of Directors, of the CNTC at their office in Tegucigalpa.
As we told the CNTC at that time, PBI-Canada continues to highlight the role that military equipment and technology has in the repression of human rights defenders and communities.
The CNTC is affiliated with the Unified Confederation of Honduran Workers (CUTH) which in turn is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), along with 150+ labour organizations including the Canadian Labour Congress.
Peace Brigades International has accompanied the CNTC since May 2018.
Photo: Eric Schiller at the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day march in Ottawa, April 17, 2026. Photo by Brent Patterson.
The Globe and Mail article “Agents for change” features two activists connected with Peace Brigades International (PBI) who “are spending their twilight years fighting for the environment.”
Eric Schiller
The article reports that Eric Schiller, “who taught civic engineering at the University of Ottawa for 18 years, …traces his activist roots back to April 27, 1965, the day he heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. …Travelling with King through the southern U.S., Dr. Schiller learned that some laws were made to be broken. In Georgia, he spent three days in jail after attending an all-white church with Black friends.”
Schiller says: “If you want to be an agent for change, it’s not enough to talk.” The 90-year-old activist adds: “I want to die peacefully fighting.”
Photo: Eric Schiller holds sign at protest in Ottawa citing the Global Witness figure that 3 land and environmental defenders had been killed in each week of 2018.
Photo: Eric Schiller and Nick Alpin at the memorial service for Peace Brigades International founder Murray Thomson, October 23, 2019.
Lyn Adamson
The Globe and Mail also notes: “Lyn Adamson, a Pickering, Ont.-born Quaker who had spent much of her adult life up to [September 2012] opposing nuclear arms, supporting Indigenous advocacy and establishing housing co-ops, was spurred to action after Stephen Harper’s majority government withdrew Canada from the Kyoto Protocol and began aggressively pushing oil sands development.”
Photo: Alaine Hawkins, Lyn Adamson and Jennifer Dennison in the PBI Central America Project Office at 345 Adelaide Street West, Suite 606 in Toronto in December 1988.
Photo: Lyn Adamson with Peace Brigades International co-founder Hans Sinn on Parliament Hill, Ottawa.
Photo: Lyn Adamson at ClimateFast protest on Parliament Hill, September 24, 2012.
The full article can be read at Agents for Change (Naomi Buck, The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2026).
On April 16, Peace Brigades International-Canada joined with Quakers Roots and the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) for an educational webinar on the DSEI arms show in London and the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa.
The CFSC promotion for the webinar highlighted that Pete Doubtfire from Quaker Roots in Britain would “discuss successes and lessons learned during their activism against DSEI – Britain’s biggest arms fair” and that “Mel Burns from CFSC will discuss our plans for Friendly actions during CANSEC”.
Sandra Wiens, the CFSC’s Government Relations Representative who was the moderator of this webinar, recently wrote in Quaker Concern (Spring 2026 issue): “CFSC is planning to be present at CANSEC this year, May 27-28 in Ottawa. CANSEC is the largest weapons fair in North America. We believe this is a moment where being present matters. We’re planning a silent vigil/Meeting for Worship on the afternoon of the first day of CANSEC to be a physical presence of unity and nonviolence—showing that strength comes through peace. We invite you to join us that day and show your opposition to the burgeoning war industry—directly and in a Friendly way.”
CBC News reports: “Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 100 of the world’s biggest investors to a summit in Toronto this September. The conference aims to pitch organizations that control trillions of dollars in capital on investing in Canada. The organizations include private investment firms such as Blackrock and some of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds, including Singapore’s GIC.”
In December 2024, Reclaim Finance and BankTrack noted: “US investors account for 71% of the total investment in LNG expansion, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street topping the list.”
The prime minister announced in September 2025 that he had recommended LNG Canada Phase 2 to the Major Projects Office (MPO) for fast-tracking. In November 2025 Carney added Ksi Lisims to his list of major projects of “national interest” to be considered for fast-tracking by the Major Projects Office.
Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watahayetsxw (Deborah Good) vowed to establish another blockade after the prime minister’s announcement on Ksi Lisims.
Video still: Chief Watahayetsxw responds to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement, November 13, 2025. Video from Laxyipyouth on Instagram.
In January 2026, The Globe and Mail reported that “Ksi Lisims is expected to make a final investment decision in 2026” while “industry analysts expect LNG Canada to make a final investment decision by the end of 2026 on whether to proceed with Phase 2.”
The CBC News article adds: “Organizers [of the tentatively titled the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto in mid-September] did not want to get into which specific projects will be pitched [but] the oil and gas industry has been calling for new investment in pipelines and LNG terminals.”
Given the repeated heavily-armed, militarized raids by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), now renamed the Critical Response Unit-British Columbia (CRU-BC), PBI-Canada is attentive to the risks to the safety and security of Indigenous land defenders resisting megaprojects, including the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline that would be built on Gitanyow territory to feed the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal.
PBI-Canada is also awaiting the release of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) systemic investigation of the RCMP C-IRG now that an interim CRCC chairperson has been appointed.
We first met Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watahayetsxw in June 2025, then again alongside Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks in October 2025.
The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted on social media:
“At the start of High Commissioner @volker_turk’s visit to Mexico, @PBI_Mexico accompanied the meeting he held with representatives of civil society organizations, where the importance of strengthening dialogue and coordination between the government and civil society organizations was expressed.
From @EspacioOsc [the Civil Society Space of Organizations], the Working Group established between 2022 and 2024 to implement the recommendations of @OACNUDH [Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights] was highlighted as a best practice, with the aim of strengthening the Protection Mechanism, and a call was made to resume it.”
The link in that social media post links to a letter that says in part:
“Despite the sustained efforts of civil society to promote a proactive, structured and results-oriented dialogue that contributes to the strengthening of public policy for protection – in particular the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists – there are currently no effective spaces for dialogue with the authorities. nor with clear signs of openness.
In this context, we consider it especially relevant to resume and give continuity to the efforts promoted jointly with the Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
However, these efforts have not been taken up by the current administration and, to date, there is no clear plan of action to strengthen the Mechanism based on the diagnosis prepared or a dialogue with civil society organizations.
This situation is particularly worrying given the persistence of violence, the delay in the attention of cases by the Mechanism, the limitations in operational capacities, the inadmissibility of requests for protection, the withdrawal of measures and other widely documented structural deficiencies.
For this reason, we believe it is essential to request that in the dialogues with government agencies you highlight the importance of the continuity of the Working Group for the strengthening of the protection policy.”
The Goldman Environmental Prize has announced its six 2026 winners, including Colombian environmental defender Yuvelis Morales Blanco.
The Goldman Environmental Prize notes: “As a young adult, Yuvelis Morales Blanco helped mobilize her community in Puerto Wilches against two key drilling projects, successfully preventing the introduction of commercial fracking into Colombia. In 2022, the campaign forced the country’s largest petroleum company, Ecopetrol, to suspend its contracts for the pilot fracking projects. In August 2024—with the projects still suspended—the Colombian Constitutional Court, in response to a lawsuit by a local organization, confirmed that the projects had violated the right of the Afro-Colombian community of Puerto Wilches to free, prior, and informed consent.”
The 5-minute Goldman Prize video highlighting Yuvelis’ work can be seen here.
CREDHOS accompanies Aguawil
Morales is the founder of Aguawil, the Committee for the Defence of Water, Life and Territory in the community of Puerto Wilches. Morales has commented: “This committee is quite special and is very important in Colombia as it’s a youth committee. We are all between 18 and 25 years old.”
Aguawil is accompanied by the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS), which is accompanied by Peace Brigades International.
The first death threat against Morales came in January 2021, not long after she had organized a protest in December 2020. Morales says: “Some armed men came to my house and trapped me. They put a gun to my head.”
By April 2021, Morales highlighted on a PBI-Canada webinar: “When we became a problem for the oil companies, those interested in promoting fracking and its economic benefits, they started to threaten, stigmatize, and silence us. More than eight of our youth have been threatened.”
In February 2022 Morales was forced to flee Colombia for her safety.
In May 2022, Morales spoke on another PBI-Canada webinar and made this comment about Canada: “When your companies and banks are investing in mining and energy megaprojects in other countries where human rights are being violated every day, you are not an environmentalist country, you are not a green country. I’m sorry to be so blunt. This is a reality that people don’t often want to say because when you open your mouth that could mean you are shot in the forehead.”
The two fracking projects
The two fracking projects being promoted near Puerto Wilches and the Magdalena River by Ecopetrol were called the Platero and Kalé projects.
At that time, Toronto-based Sintana Energy Inc. highlighted that it “holds an undivided 30% non-operated participation interest in a Contract for Exploration and Production for Block VMM-37” where the Platero project was to be conducted.
And Calgary-based Canacol Energy Ltd. commented that the Platero and Kalé projects were “positive steps towards realizing the commercial potential of the unconventional shale oil field in Colombia”.
The Banking on Climate Chaos report also noted then that Toronto-based Scotiabank had provided millions of dollars in financing to Ecopetrol.
Goldman ceremony on YouTube
UPDATE: The video of Yuvelis accepting the Goldman Environmental Prize can now be seen here(starting at 1:21:00).
We congratulate Yuvelis, Aguawil, CREDHOS and all the organizations, defenders and community who have supported her work.
The Mexican military is expected to attend the CANSEC arms and technology show at the EY Centre in Ottawa this coming May 27-28, 2026.
Image by CADSI (the Mexican flag is in the second row, second from the right).
This year CANSEC will feature the five biggest and most profitable weapons companies among the 300 exhibitors. One of the companies that will be at CANSEC is the Newmarket, Ontario-based Terradyne Armored Vehicles.
Human rights concerns
In their World Report 2025, Human Rights Watch noted: “Soldiers [in Mexico] have been implicated in a wide range of serious abuses against civilians, including torture, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances.”
Amnesty International has also posted: “Members of the Mexican military have committed frequent crimes under international law and serious human rights violations with impunity. From 2014 to date, the CNDH [National Human Rights Commission] has received at least 6,661 complaints of human rights violations committed by SEDENA [Ministry of Defence], SEMAR [the Ministry of the Navy] and the National Guard.”
In July 2023, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project participated in an international observation mission that documented abuses against Indigenous territorial defenders opposed to the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus. The Mission reported: “Among the authorities responsible for the human rights violations identified during the mission are the National Guard, the Navy, the Sedena [the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense], the State Police…”
Consorcio Oaxaca, Tlachinollan, Cerezo Committee
Furthermore, The Guardian has reported: “Mexico’s military has a long history of spying on activists and journalists.” It is also believed that at least 109 Mexican human rights defenders and 25 journalists were infected by the Pegasus malware, including Yesica Sánchez Maya of Consorcio Oaxaca, Abel Barrera of the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre, and members of the Comité Cerezo Mexico.
Consorcio Oaxaca and Tlachinollan are members of the Civil Society Organization Space for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists (Espacio OSC). The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project accompanies Espacio OSC.
In May 2022, Quetzalli Villanueva, a lawyer with the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre in Guerrero, was a featured speaker on a PBI-Canada organized webinar about militarization of territory just prior to CANSEC that year.
Espacio OSC
Espacio OSC has expressed concern about an attack against defenders by the Civil Force in Veracruz in June 2024.
Still from Vanguardia video of Terradyne armoured vehicle used by the Saltillo Operational Reaction Group (GROMS).
In its World Report 2014, Human Rights Watch documented: “Mexico’s security forces have participated in widespread enforced disappearances since former President Calderón (2006-2012) launched a ‘war on drugs’. Members of all security force branches continue to carry out disappearances during the Peña Nieto administration, in some cases collaborating directly with criminal groups. In June 2013, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said it was investigating 2,443 disappearances in which it had found evidence of the involvement of state agents.”
CANSEC, May 27-28
A wide range of social movements, peace groups, faith communities, non-governmental organizations, and individuals will be mobilizing to protest the CANSEC arms show on Wednesday May 27 and Thursday May 28.
The Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) has noted: “CFSC is planning to be present at CANSEC this year… We’re planning a silent vigil/Meeting for Worship on the afternoon of the first day of CANSEC to be a physical presence of unity and nonviolence—showing that strength comes through peace.”
For updates on the mass protest being planned for May 28, click here.
Peace Brigades International-Canada is highlighting the dangers faced by human rights defenders from the arms exports promoted at the CANSEC arms show as part of our commitment to holistic protection accompaniment.
