Canada spends millions to win a UN Security Council seat, but millions more in violation of a UN resolution on land defenders

On February 7 of this year, CBC reporter Chantelle Bellrichard tweeted: “Just got an email reply on an earlier request I’d sent to #RCMP around costs for last year’s enforcement actions and establishment of CISO [Community Industry Safety Office] detachment [on Wet’suwet’en territory]. RCMP said actions between January and March Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

Canadian companies interested in fracking in Colombia as ANH president confirms pilot projects will start next year

Photo: ANH president Armando Zamora Reyes and Colombian energy minister Maria Fernanda Suarez after he was sworn into office, March 12, 2020. On May 20, Armando Zamora, the president of the Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH), stated: “The timetable [for the fracking pilot projects] continues, and the interest of the Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

PBI-Guatemala publishes new report: We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz

The Peace Brigades International-Guatemala Project published a 64-page report titled We Defend Life! The Social Struggles in Alta Verapaz. In the introduction to the report, PBI-Guatemala notes: “Alta Verapaz (AV) is a department characterized by difficult realities and deep contradictions: it has the highest number of conflicts over agrarian issues Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

United Nations expresses concern about impact of pandemic on Indigenous peoples as First Nations block dam site in Canada

On Monday May 18, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, a Maya Kaqchikel from Guatemala, stated: “Now, more than ever, Governments worldwide should support indigenous peoples to implement their own plans to protect their communities and participate in the elaboration of Read more

By Brent Patterson, ago

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