Video: Wet’suwet’en land defenders have been criminalized for defending their territory against a fracked gas pipeline being built on their lands without consent. The application form to come to camp to support this struggle is here. The United Nations COP26 climate summit concluded in Glasgow, Scotland on November 13. This Read more…
Fotograma del video de Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. En la cumbre de la COP26 en Glasgow, el defensor de la tierra de Tla’amin, Ta’Kaiya Blaney, declaró: “Mi tierra y mis aguas están bajo la ocupación ilegal genocida del gobierno canadiense, las industrias de extracción de recursos y las corporaciones internacionales que Read more…
Still from video by Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. At the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Tla’amin land defender Ta’Kaiya Blaney stated: “My land and waters are under the genocidal illegal occupation of the Canadian government, resource extraction industries and international corporations that are bleeding us dry of our birthright, the salmon, the Read more…
Photo from Aljazeera. On November 9, a gathering for murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people was held near the COP26 summit site in Glasgow, Scotland. At that gathering, Wet’suwet’en land defender Delee Nikal said: “Femicide is directly linked to the ecocide … there needs to be more Read more…
Hannah Matthews (coordinadora de comunicaciones internacionales de PBI) moderó este panel con David R. Boyd (Relator Especial de la ONU), Juana Ramona Zuñiga (Honduras), Amaru Ruiz (Nicaragua), Nelly Madegwa (Kenia), Valeria Villalobos (México), Sandra Calel (Guatemala) y Danilo Rueda (Colombia). El 6 de noviembre, Peace Brigades International organizó un seminario Read more…
COPINH tweet: The image of Lenca environmental rights defender Berta Caceres is projected in Glasgow. Caceres was killed in March 2016, just months after COP21. On Saturday November 6, Peace Brigades International convened this webinar with six frontline environmental defenders from Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya, Mexico and Nicaragua in the Read more…
On November 6, David R. Boyd, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, tweeted: This relates to the Glasgow work programme on Action for Climate Empowerment. Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) is a term adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Article 6 Read more…
Hannah Matthews (PBI international communications coordinator) moderated this panel featuring David R. Boyd (UN Special Rapporteur), Juana Ramona Zuñiga (Honduras), Amaru Ruiz (Nicaragua), Nelly Madegwa (Kenya), Valeria Villalobos (Mexico), Sandra Calel (Guatemala) and Danilo Rueda (Colombia). On November 6, Peace Brigades International hosted a webinar featuring six frontline land and Read more…
Photo by Jo Blackman. On November 2, Bill McKibben, who is at COP26 in Glasgow, stated: “One of the things I’m doing today is addressing a memorial service for the environment activists that were killed around the world last year, many of them in Latin America…” Global Witness has documented Read more…
More than 225 people have registered for the PBI webinar on November 6 that will feature introductory comments by David R. Boyd. To register for this, click here. On October 8, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted this resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable Read more…