Twitter photo of protest in Barrancabermeja on November 22 via Twitter. On November 23, The Guardian reported, “After more than 250,000 people marched on Thursday to express growing discontent with president Iván Duque’s government, another large crowd gathered on Friday afternoon in Bogotá’s Bolívar Plaza.” “The crowd, which included the Read more…
On November 22, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied Nuevo Dia in Chiquimula for the presentation of the report on compliance with Camotán’s sentences ‘Without horizons of human development’. The act claimed the right to food as a fundamental human right.” In July 2013, a judge declared Read more…
On November 20, the staff and volunteers from the Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project gathered together with many of the human rights defenders they accompany to celebrate the 25th anniversary of PBI in Colombia. The gathering took place at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. As noted in the book Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied three human rights organizations participating in the November 21st national strike. PBI-Colombia tweeted that it accompanied David Ravelo (a founding member of CREDHOS) in Barrancabermeja, the Committee in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (CSPP) and the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective Corporation (CCAJAR). Ivan Read more…
47-year-old Mexican human rights lawyer and social activist Arnulfo Cerón Soriano went missing on October 11 in the city of Tlapa in the state of Guerrero. On November 20, news came of his murder. The Tlachinollan Mountain Human Rights Centre reports, “His body was found near Colonia el Aguaje, in Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Canada affirms that trans rights are human rights. The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an internationally recognized annual observance that has been held on November 20th since 1999. It celebrates and honours the lives of trans, non-binary and two-spirit people whose lives have been lost due to Read more…
November 20th is the 30th anniversary of an extraordinary act of courage by Karen Ridd, a Peace Brigades International volunteer from Canada. The news magazine Maclean’s sets the context: “Following a two-week trip to Nicaragua in 1986, Ridd decided to put her beliefs in social justice to work in Central Read more…
On November 19, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted, “On November 6 we were present at a press conference in which different farmers’ organizations, including the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC), an organization accompanied by PBI, expressed its pronouncements on the decision of President Juan Orlando Hernandez of the Read more…
On November 19, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted, “Yesterday we attended the invocation held outside the court prior to the start of the first declaration hearing. The judge received the preliminary conclusions of the MP, the adhesive complainants and the defender of Benedict Lucas García.” The PBI-Guatemala Facebook post Read more…
On November 14, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted, “Yesterday we accompanied the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) in the presentation of an appeal of unconstitutionality in the Supreme Court of Justice to the decree granting the Armed Forces 4,000 million lempiras for agricultural projects. A measure that, for Read more…