What are the causes of violence against human rights defenders? It may be a basic question to ask, but it’s important to examine the context and the roots of violence as a way to perhaps mitigate or even prevent it. While there are multiple causes for violence against human rights Read more…
On January 7, the Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project posted on its Facebook page, “Yesterday we accompanied the Law Office of Human Rights (BDH) to the trial court of first instance in Cobán, Alta Verapaz, for the start of debate against three peasants of the Tactic Summit (la Cumbre Tactic).” PBI-Guatemala Read more…
The Canadian Press reports, “The [United Nations] Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which monitors a convention to end racial discrimination signed by countries including Canada, is calling for a suspension of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Site C dam and Coastal GasLink pipeline.” “The committee, made up of Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Mexico has expressed its concern about water being disconnected to the Saltillo Migrant Shelter as well as slanderous comments that have been made against the organization. PBI-Mexico has stated this is a violation of the rights to water and sanitation, expressed its trust in the shelter, and has Read more…
On January 3, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted, “We are following with concern the call for a new migrant caravan for January 2020.” PBI-Honduras adds, “In 2019 Honduras exceeded the figures of the previous year with more 81 thousand returned and around 105 thousand deported.” Their post included this Read more…
A key outcome of our speaking tour with Colombian human rights defenders in 2019 was their proposal to send a high-level Canadian delegation in 2020 to visit areas of Canadian corporate extractivist (notably fracking) activity in Colombia. We are also planning two speaking tours in this country. This will include Read more…
The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has tweeted, “Our concern about water suspension at @CDMSaltillo on December 28 and the defamation series against its director @BETTOXICO through press releases from different media.” On Facebook, PBI-Mexico adds, “As an international organization that accompanies Casa Del Migrante de Saltillo since 2014, we reject Read more…
Numerous environmental organizations have criticized the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, also known as NAFTA 2.0) because they argue it serves to accelerate the existential crisis of our time, namely climate change. As noted in this letter, 350.org, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Oil Change International, the Sierra Club, and Food Read more…
On January 7 of this year, heavily armed Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers raided a checkpoint that had been established on Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia in opposition to the construction of a fracked gas pipeline. Now, almost a year later, The Guardian reports, “Canadian police were prepared to Read more…
The Beyond NAFTA 2.0: Toward a Progressive Trade Agenda for People and the Planet report (published in June 2019) by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung examines in part the relationship between trade policy and human rights. The editors highlight, Read more…