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PBI-Canada remains attentive to final investment decisions on LNG Canada Phase 2 and Ksi Lisims in British Columbia

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Brent Patterson
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Video still: “Get your gun off of me, lower your gun!” PBI-Canada is concerned that heavily-armed raids by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) against Indigenous land and environmental defenders could be repeated.

In January 2026, The Globe and Mail reported on the pending financial investment decisions to be made on two megaprojects opposed by Indigenous land and environmental defenders in northern British Columbia.

The newspaper highlighted:

– “Industry analysts expect LNG Canada to make a final investment decision by the end of 2026 on whether to proceed with Phase 2.”

– “Ksi Lisims is expected to make a final investment decision in 2026.”

The Globe and Mail had previously reported in October 2025: “The backers of Ksi Lisims plan to make a final investment decision by the end of this year [2025], in hopes of starting LNG exports to Asia in 2029.”

By November 2025, Natural Gas Intelligence reported: “Backers of Ksi Lisims LNG expect to reach a final investment decision (FID) next year [2026]… The project’s developers were aiming to sanction it this year [2025], but they remain in mature conversations to sign up additional offtakers and secure construction loan financing.”

Two weeks ago, the Prince George Citizen reported the British Columbia Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix saying: “We hope to be approaching a final investment decision [on Ksi Lisims].”

Once the final investment decision is made, construction could begin quickly. Western LNG spokesperson Rebecca Scott has previously stated: “We would be starting construction soon thereafter.”

Ksi Lisims LNG terminal

The Globe and Mail article also notes that in November 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney added Ksi Lisims LNG to its list of major projects of national interest to be considered for fast-tracking by the Major Projects Office.

The Ksi Lisims LNG terminal would be fed by the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline that would be built on Gitanyow and Gitxsan territories. The project would also be powered by the North Coast Transmission Line. Construction on the transmission line megaproject is expected to begin this year.

LNG Canada Phase 2

The Globe and Mail also notes that Prime Minister Carney had announced in September 2025 that LNG Canada Phase 2 was on its list of major projects that it has recommended to the MPO for fast-tracking.

The National Observer has previously reported: “If LNG Canada Phase 2 is built … additional compressor stations will need to be built [on Wet’suwet’en territory] to squeeze more gas into the pipeline.” And the Canadian Press has noted: “Hereditary chiefs say two of the proposed compressor stations that would be a part of Coastal GasLink’s Phase 2 would be located on their traditional territory.”

Land and environmental defenders

Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan leaders have been clear in their opposition to the construction of compressor stations on their territory that would come with the LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion. The Wet’suwet’en experienced militarized raids by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) in January 2019, February 2020 and November 2021.

The Gitanyow have also been clear in their opposition to the PRGT pipeline being built on their lands to feed the Ksi Lisims LNG terminal.

In August 2024, they established a blockade on a road to stop truck transport related to the construction of the pipeline.

Photo: Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs: “As we stand our ground and turn back LNG trucks, the love and support you are all showing us at the Genada [Frog Clan] Injunction is overwhelming!”

And in November 2025, Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watahayetsxw (Deborah Good) vowed to establish another blockade after Prime Minister Carney announced his support for the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal.

RCMP violence against defenders

Amnesty International has documented the “harassment, intimidation, unlawful surveillance and criminalization” by the RCMP C-IRG against land defenders opposed to the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Front Line Defenders has also called on authorities in Canada to comply with their obligations under international law to recognize, respect and reinforce the work of human rights defenders.

Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks has described what land defenders experienced as “psychological warfare”.

“RCMP snipers meant to intimidate and abuse”

The Tyee has reported that RCMP Sergeant Ryan Arnold, who led the RCMP’s Emergency Response Team on November 19, 2021, said RCMP snipers, carrying carbine assault rifles modified to make them more effective at longer distances, were present to provide “a quick response unit” for officers making the arrests.

After that raid, Toronto-based Canadian Forces College Department of Defence Studies professor Chris Madsen told PressProgress: “Emergency Response Teams [ERTs] are being improperly used in suppressing peaceful indigenous protests on their own lands. Use of the ERT in this situation is improper because the protestors are clearly neither armed nor offering resistance, other than perhaps words.”

University of Winnipeg criminal justice professor Kevin Walby also told PressProgress: “I think the use of the ERT and the snipers is clearly meant to intimidate and abuse. It is meant to be traumatizing.”

Video still: RCMP with assault rifles on Wet’suwet’en territory, November 19, 2021. CBC News/Michael Toledano.

Peace Brigades International-Canada visited Wet’suwet’en, Gitxsan and Gitanyow territories in November 2021, June 2025 and October 2025.

We remain attentive to the final investment decisions on LNG Canada Phase 2 and Ksi Lisims, as well as construction of the PRGT pipeline and the North Coast Transmission Line, and the safety of the Indigenous land and environmental defenders exercising their rights to oppose these megaprojects on their territories.

We also remain ready to return to the territories if the safety of land and environmental defenders is put at risk by the deployment of the RCMP Critical Response Unit-British Columbia (CRU-BC).

Additional reading: PBI-Canada continues to monitor the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission systemic investigation of the RCMP C-IRG (January 23, 2026).

Country report: The export of “military goods” to Indonesia; attacks against human rights defenders

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Brent Patterson
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Photo: The Indonesian National Armed Forces has been accused of committing human rights abuses in Papua. Photo by Gitoyo aryo – Own work.

This year, Peace Brigades International-Canada is researching the export of military goods/strategic goods and technology from Canada and highlighting their potential impact on the safety and security of human rights defenders in five countries: Mexico, the Philippines, Indonesia, Palestine and the United States.

Last year, The Maple highlighted: “Canada is a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which is enshrined in the Export and Import Permits Act. Under this law, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs must not approve export permits for military goods if there is a substantial risk the goods could be used to facilitate serious human rights abuses or violations of international law.”

INDONESIA

State violence against human rights defenders

Global Witness has documented that 25 land and environmental defenders have been killed in Indonesia between 2012 and 2024. At least 11 of those defenders were killed by State actors (Armed Forces, Police, Government officials).

According to this Global Witness database, 2 of these land and environmental defenders were killed by the Armed Forces; 5 were killed by the Police; 2 were killed by Private security guards, Police; 1 was killed by Corporations, Police; 1 was killed by Organized crime / mafias, Government officials; 2 were killed by Private security guards; 5 were killed by Corporations; 2 were killed by Organised crime / mafias, Corporations; 1 was killed by Hitmen; 1 by Others; and 3 by Unknown actors.

Front Line Defenders has also documented the killing of 9 human rights defenders in Indonesia since 2019.

Additionally, in their 2024/25 Report on Indonesia, Amnesty International noted: “In Papua, unlawful killings of civilians continued with impunity within the context of the conflict between the Indonesian military and armed separatist groups. In May, in its concluding observations, the UN Human Rights Committee raised concerns about extrajudicial killings of Indigenous Papuans.”

And in May 2025, Human Rights Watch highlighted: “The security forces’ military operations in the densely forested Central Highlands areas [of West Papua] have allegedly killed and injured dozens of civilians with drone strikes and the indiscriminate use of explosive munitions, and displaced thousands of Indigenous Papuans.”

Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, adds: “The Indonesian military has a long history of abuses in West Papua that poses a particular risk to the Indigenous communities.”

“Irresponsible Arms Transfers”: Amnesty International

The Amnesty International The State of the World’s Human Rights (April 2025) report notes: “Canada continued to export arms and military equipment to countries despite lack of accountability for past violations and substantial risks that they could be used in serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.”

According to Government of Canada figures, during the period of 2012 to 2024 when 25 land and environmental defenders were killed in Indonesia, Canada exported almost $45 billion of so-called “military goods and technology” to that country.

History of Canadian arms exports to Indonesia

In February 2018, David Webster, an Associate professor of Human Rights Studies at King’s University College at Western University, wrote:

“Indonesia notoriously invaded the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in 1975, with more than 100,000 Timorese perishing under the subsequent military occupation. From 1975 to 1991 [under Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau, Joe Clark, John Turner, and Brian Mulroney] Canada nonetheless was willing to sell arms to Indonesia.

In 1991, a massacre in East Timor prompted Barbara McDougall, foreign minister in Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative government, to impose an arms embargo. There was no suggestion that Canadian-made arms had been used in the massacre, but McDougall was taking no chances.

Arms sales to Indonesia resumed as Jean Chrétien’s government [that came into office in November 1993] embraced Indonesia, but there was increasing dissent within the Department of Foreign Affairs about it.

In September 1999, after extensive public pressure, foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy imposed an arms embargo as pro-Indonesia militia groups killed, forcibly relocated and terrorized the Timorese population. No evidence was required that Canadian-supplied weapons were being used against civilians. The government simply acted.”

Nevertheless, on August 30, 2020, The Globe and Mail reported: “A Canadian manufacturer was preparing to ship military equipment to Indonesia a year ago even as brutal attacks by Indonesian troops drove thousands in occupied East Timor from their homes, an internal Foreign Affairs department memorandum indicates. The memo suggests Ottawa was reluctant to cancel an export permit for the shipment because officials feared the company would sue the federal government over its handling of military sales.”

“Military Cooperation” in 2025

Most recently, in August 2025, the Department of National Defence issued a media release that stated: “The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jennie Carignan signed a Military Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI), the Indonesian National Armed Forces.”

General Carignan is quoted in that media release saying: “Formalizing our military cooperation with a key Indo-Pacific partner like Indonesia is vital to strengthening Canada’s ability to promote peace and stability in the region. By enhancing our interoperability with the Tentara Nasional Indonesia, we ensure that the Canadian Armed Forces remain ready to uphold international law and defend Canadian sovereignty.”

The CANSEC arms show

Peace Brigades International-Canada will be observing the Shut Down CANSEC mobilization against the CANSEC arms show this coming Wednesday May 27, 2026, starting at 8 am at the EY Centre in Ottawa.

While the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), the organizer of the CANSEC arms show, does not make public the names of the 60+ international delegations that attend CANSEC, it is likely that Indonesia sends a delegation to CANSEC.

We continue to follow this.

Further reading

PBI-Canada to research links between the export of Canadian “military goods” and state violence against human rights defenders (January 13, 2026)

Thoughts on the Global Affairs Canada “Voices at Risk” guidelines and the Export and Import Permits Act on “military goods” (March 2, 2025).

Public Services International (PSI) affiliates demand investigations into attacks against legitimately elected union leaders in Guatemala

By
Brent Patterson
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Photo: René Scup Morán, member and leader of the Guatemalan Education Workers Union (STEG), was killed in September 2024.

Latam Gremial reports: “Affiliates of Public Services International (PSI) expressed concern about the context of violence, insecurity and democratic fragility in Guatemala, and called for state guarantees for work, life and social rights.”

The article continues: “The affiliated and fraternal unions of Public Services International (PSI) in Guatemala released a statement in which they describe a scenario marked by violence, uncertainty and violation of rights, while reiterating their trajectory of struggle for social and labor justice.”

It further highlights: “The organizations also express their solidarity with the families of leaders and workers who have lost their lives and demand ‘serious, impartial and exhaustive’ investigations by the Ministry of the Interior, with the aim of identifying those responsible for the attacks against ‘legitimately elected” union leaders.’”

ITUC report

In its 2025 ITUC Global Rights Index: The World’s Worst Countries for Workers, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) documented: “Trade unionists were killed in five countries: Cameroon, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and South Africa.”

That report documents the killings of three union activists in Guatemala in 2024: Ronaldo Geovany Gómez Godoy, a member of the National Union of Health Workers of Guatemala (SNTSG); René Sucup Morán, a union leader of Sindicato de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de la Educación de Guatemala (STEG); and Anastacio Tzib Caal, a leader in the network of textile maquila unions in Guatemala.

Protection Mechanism

A protection mechanism for human rights defenders was established via Ministerial Accord on August 28, 2024.

Prensa Comunitaria has reported: “The policy defines a human rights defender as ‘any person who, individually or collectively, acts or seeks to act to promote and procure the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms,’ according to international standards. The document also emphasizes that the status of defender is determined exclusively by the activity carried out, regardless of whether he receives remuneration, belongs to an organization or acts occasionally or permanently.”

Further reading: PBI-Guatemala attends the presentation of new public policy for the protection of human rights defenders (November 14, 2025).

We continue to follow this.

ASOPODEHU notes the importance of the Secretariat of Human Rights and the Protection Mechanism in Honduras

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Brent Patterson
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Photo: PBI-Honduras accompanying Dina Meza in 2019.

The Association for Democracy and Human Rights in Honduras (ASOPODEHU) has posted on social media:

“Human rights are not improvised or negotiated. They are guaranteed.

The Secretariat of Human Rights is not a symbolic position or a political appointment: it is a constitutional obligation of the Honduran State and a key element for the protection of dignity, life, and fundamental freedoms.

In a context where violence, impunity, the criminalization of protest, and attacks on journalists and human rights defenders persist, the selection of the head of this institution must be based on technical, ethical, and democratic criteria, not partisan interests.”

La Tribuna reports: “The Association for Democracy and Human Rights (ASOPODEHU) and Young Promoters and Defenders of Human Rights (JOPRODEH) issued a national and international alert statement in response to public information about a possible dissolution of the Honduran Human Rights Secretariat [SEDH], considering that it would be an event of ‘extreme institutional gravity’ and a direct risk to the protection of fundamental rights in the country.”

The article adds: “[The organizations] also emphasized that the SEDH fulfills strategic and irreplaceable functions, including the coordination of the Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators, and Justice Operators, as well as the mechanism for attention to people displaced by violence. Weakening the institution, they warned, could increase the risk of irreparable damage, including attacks on life, personal integrity and freedom.”

Excerpt from statement.

The Associated Press has reported: “Trump-backed businessman Nasry Asfura was sworn in [on January 27] as president of Honduras, and pledged to create jobs, crack down on crime and improve key social services like education and health care.”

The day prior to the swearing in of Asfura, Infobae reported: “The next administration headed by Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura in Honduras is preparing to implement an ambitious reduction of the state apparatus. The elimination of 38 public institutions and a strict austerity policy define a structural shift whose purpose is to optimize spending and generate substantial savings.”

Dina Meza, the director of the Association for Democracy and Human Rights in Honduras (ASOPODEHU), has been accompanied by Peace Brigades International since 2014.

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“Resisting CANSEC: Strength through PEACE” webinar, February 11

By
Brent Patterson
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We are pleased to be working with the Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC-Quakers) on a webinar on February 11 at 7:00 pm ET.

The webinar relates to the CANSEC arms show that will take place on May 27-28 this year at the EY Centre in Ottawa.

The speakers include Kelsey Gallagher from Project Ploughshares and Mel Burns from the Canadian Friends Service Committee.

To register, please click here.

Additional reading

PBI-Canada observes protests at the DSEI arms fair in London, hears concerns about violations of human rights (September 12, 2025)

Protest challenges CANSEC weapons show in Ottawa; thirteen arrested at demonstration upholding international laws (May 29, 2025)

You can also follow Shut.down.CANSEC on Instagram here.

PBI-Canada now on UpScrolled!

By
Brent Patterson
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Peace Brigades International-Canada is now on UpScrolled. To find us there, download the UpScrolled app and search for PBIcanada.

UpScrolled is a social media application that has surged in popularity after US-backed investors and companies took over TikTok last week.

Al Jazeera has reported: “On Wednesday, TikTok permanently banned Emmy Award-winning journalist and Al Jazeera contributor from Gaza, Bisan Owda, sparking outrage and boycott calls from her supporters. The app has also been accused of content censorship around unprecedented ICE violence in the US.”

UpScrolled was founded in July 2025 by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Jordanian-Australian developer. It is backed by Tech for Palestine.

Al Jazeera also notes: “In a report last year, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese accused IBM and several other Big Tech companies of complicity in what she called ‘Israel’s genocide’. Social media apps like Instagram, X and TikTok have faced accusations of shadow bans by users posting pro-Palestine content.”

Forbes further reports: “UpScrolled’s founder Issam Hijazi said in a post on X Thursday morning the app surpassed 1 million users, a big increase from 150,000 users just a few days prior.”

And Newsweek adds: “Users on X describe it as a ‘no censorship, no billionaires’ social networking app.”

You can find PBI-Canada on UpScrolled (download the app and search PBIcanada), Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook and X.

PBI-Colombia accompanies the CREDHOS 2026 Assessment and Planning session in Barrancabermeja

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Brent Patterson
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The Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) has posted on social media:

“We begin our 2026 Assessment and Planning session, which will be fundamental for analyzing and projecting agendas that will allow us to continue defending life and dignity in the Magdalena Medio region.”

PBI-Canada remembers Ivan Madero’s visit to Canada in November 2019 and our visit with the CREDHOS team in Barrancabermeja, Puerto Wilches, Bajo Simacota and the San Silvestre wetland in July 2022.

We continue to follow, with respect and affection, the work of CREDHOS.

Peace Brigades International has accompanied CREDHOS since 1994.

PBI-Canada to host webinar on strengthening the Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico, February 12

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Brent Patterson
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(Left to right): Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera, Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván, Mario Hurtado Cardozo, Aledia Quintana Ordaz.

On Thursday February 12 at 3 pm ET (2 pm in Mexico City), PBI-Mexico, Espacio OSC and PBI-Canada are jointly holding a webinar on strengthening the Protection Mechanism.

The speakers include Elizabeth Guadalupe Mosqueda Rivera (with the Consortium for Parliamentary Dialogue and Equity Oaxaca), Héctor Hugo Arreola Galván (with the Zeferino Ladrillero Human Rights Center), Mario Hurtado Cardozo (Espacio OSC) and Aledia Quintana Ordaz (from the National Network of Human Rights Defenders).

To register for this webinar, click here.

This webinar follows the advocacy visit by Elizabeth and Hugo in September 2025 to Ottawa where they met with Members of Parliament, Global Affairs Canada officials, and civil society allies to amplify the call to strengthen the Protection Mechanism.

And it precedes the Team Canada Trade Mission (TCTM) to Mexico from February 15 to 20 that will be led by Dominic LeBlanc, the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy.

At the United Nations Universal Periodic Review session held on January 24, 2024, Canada recommended that Mexico: “Strengthen, from an intersectional and gender perspective, the federal Protection Mechanism for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists, specifically in the areas of prevention, protection, investigation, and reparation.”

Stay tuned for updates on this.

PBI-Colombia attends presentation of IACHR report that acknowledges the persecution of labour unions

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Brent Patterson
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The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has posted on social media: “We attend the presentation of the CIDH [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] report on the impact of human rights violations.”

Caracol Radio reports: “The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) presented a report on the situation of violence in Colombia and the impact it has on human rights. It concludes that, despite the progress and efforts to build peace, there are still structural factors such as inequality, discrimination and the absence of the State in large areas of the territory.”

The report includes references to “the persecution of labour unions” (89), notes that the mining and energy sector has “labour impacts” (293), and that changes introduced to the Victims Law in 2024 aimed to ensure the State provides protection measures for members of labour unions (441):

89- High levels of informal employment are linked, among other factors, to the deterioration and persecution of labour unions. In a context marked by precariousness, stigmatization, and violence, civil society representatives pointed out that the difficulties in defending labor rights translate into a greater likelihood of violations of the legal framework. This scenario also generates a power imbalance between workers and companies, which further increases violations of current regulations regarding labor, environmental, social, and economic rights.

293- The mining and energy sector has generated increasing territorial tensions due to its labour and environmental impacts. Social conflicts related to this sector increased from 89 episodes in 2022 to 130 cases in 2023.

440- In 2024, Law 2421 was approved, reforming the Victims’ Law to strengthen the enforceability of the rights of victims of the armed conflict and eliminate barriers to access to recognition and comprehensive reparation.

441- The reform also implemented differentiated approaches to recognize the impacts on Indigenous people, Afro-descendants, rural communities, women, LGBTI people, people with disabilities, displaced persons, and incarcerated individuals. The changes introduced by the law aim to ensure that the State provides protection measures for women, youth, children, older persons, people with disabilities, rural communities, human rights defenders and social and religious leaders, members of labour unions, and victims of internal, rural, and transnational forced displacement. Similarly, protection policies will prioritize single mothers, victims of sexual violence in the context of armed conflict, and children orphaned by armed conflict. Furthermore, it gave central importance to human security by understanding the interrelationship between security, socioeconomic development, and the enjoyment of human rights.

The full report can be read here.

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PBI-Canada congratulates the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation on the presidential signing of Law 2364, the Women Searchers Law

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Brent Patterson
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The Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation has posted on social media: “Finally! Law 2364 has been signed. The struggle of the women searching for their missing loved ones was not in vain. Now: let it be fulfilled, let it be implemented, let it be respected.”

The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project has also posted:

“Presidency signs the Decree authorizing the Women Seekers Act. Congratulations @fundacionnydiaerikabautista for persistence and may this achievement continue to be a light on the way.”

El Espectador reports: “This has been the story of the women searchers in Colombia: waiting for some response from that family member they never saw again; waiting for institutional recognition of their work amid repeated attempts to discredit it; and waiting, for almost two years, for the decree enforcing the law that protects them to be signed. That moment finally arrived on January 26, when the measure implementing Law 2364 of 2024, known as the Women Searchers Law, became final.”

Andrea Torres, director of the Nydia Érika Bautista Foundation and daughter of Yanette Bautista, tells El Espectador: “We received it with tears in our eyes. We were very moved because we feel that Yanette Bautista is continuing her legacy from heaven and showing us that we must keep going. It gives us strength, comforts us, and reminds us that it is worth getting up every day to demand our rights and those of our loved ones. It has been wonderful news after decades in which women searchers were invisible.”

Radio Nacional de Colombia notes: “With the signing of this law, the national government takes a key step in recognizing the fundamental role that women searchers have played in defending human rights, historical memory, and peacebuilding in Colombia, settling a historic debt with those who have tirelessly searched for their loved ones amid pain and resistance.”

The timeline of the legislation

The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project was present on October 19, 2022, the day the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation filed the Bill.

On March 15, 2023, PBI-Colombia tweeted: “We are accompanying the Meeting with the @FirstCommission to promote the Bill on #WomenSearchers of #EnforcedDisappearance in Colombia @nydia_erika” The First Commission (Comisión Primera) is the “Permanent Constitutional Commission of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia that processes in first debate the Bills and Legislative Act.”

And on May 16, 2023, PBI-Colombia accompanied the Foundation at the First Debate on the Comprehensive Law.

On June 27, 2023, PBI-Colombia posted: “The Commissioner of the @CIDH [Inter-American Commission on Human Rights] @JulissaMantill6 visits the office of @nydia_erika in support of the risk situation that the Foundation faces in its fight against forced disappearance and in support of the Women Searchers bill.”

On July 27, 2023, PBI-Colombia posted: “Today vice minister @liliasolanor [Lilia Solano] facilitated an important push for law 242, protection for #WomenSearchers promoted by @nydia_erika. There was the participation of @ONU [United Nations] Women, @OACNUDH [the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights-Central America and the Caribbean], and the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Defence.”

On October 27, 2023, PBI-Colombia posted: “We were with @nydia_erika at the meeting with @ONUMujeresCol [the United Nations agency in Colombia for gender equality and the empowerment of women] and @ONUHumanRights [UN Human Rights Colombia] to follow up on the draft Law for the Comprehensive Protection of #WomenSearchers of Victims of #MissingPersons.”

On February 27, 2024, PBI-Colombia posted: “Talking at the headquarters of the @nydia_erika Foundation about the importance of advancing and making a reality the Law Project on Guarantees for Women Seekers, a pioneering initiative presented last week to the UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances.”

PBI-Colombia was also present alongside Yanette Bautista on April 4, 2024, when Bill No. 242 was approved in the Senate.

Then on June 18, 2024, Law 2364 of 2024, the Comprehensive Law for the Protection of the Rights of Women Searchers, was ratified by President Gustavo Petro.

On October 23, 2025, when the Foundation launched a network and campaign on Law 2364, PBI-Colombia posted: “From PBI Colombia, we reiterate our support for FNEB to strengthen protective environments, support the implementation of #Law2364, and continue contributing to justice, truth, and peacebuilding.”

And now today, January 29, 2026, PBI-Colombia is sharing the good news: “Presidency signs the Decree authorizing the Women Seekers Act. Congratulations @fundacionnydiaerikabautista for persistence and may this achievement continue to be a light on the way.”

Peace Brigades International has been accompanying the “Nydia Erika Bautista” Foundation (FNEB) occasionally since 2007 and in full since 2016.

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