“I am very grateful to PBI because it is very useful. I like how they work: their weapon was their T-shirts.” – Obtilia Eugenio Manuel Obtilia defends the rights of the Tlapanec people in the state of Guerrero, Mexico and founded the Organization of the Me’phaa Indigenous People (OPIM). Peace Read more
La Sangre de la Tierra (The Blood of the Earth), a documentary film made by Peace Brigades International and Asociación Entrepueblos, is scheduled to be screened at the Planet in Focus film festival (October 15-20) in Toronto and at the International Symposium on Indigenous Languages (February 11, 2021) in Quebec City. Read more
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
It is possible that the world could see a decrease in spending on weapons due to the drop in the price of oil, pandemic related debt, and a popular push for public funds to be spent on health care and the environment rather than increasingly on armaments. On May 18, Read more
The Peace Brigades International-Indonesia Project is looking for volunteers with English language skills to assist human rights defenders. Many of the human rights defenders they work with speak little to no English, but it is an important skill for them to have to help them engage and advocate at the Read more
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
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
The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has released its 2019 annual report that highlights its 20 years of accompanying human rights defenders. In the report, Carla Cavarretta, PBI Mexico General Coordinator, writes: “It has been a long trajectory, full of both successes and dark moments shared with Mexican human rights defenders Read more
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
With the Canadian government committed to increasing military spending to $32.7 billion a year by 2026-27 and subsidizing the fossil fuel industry with about $60 billion a year, where will the public dollars be found for a Green New Deal (GND)? The same question might be asked globally given military Read more