Photo: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the COP26 summit on November 1, 2021; RCMP raid on Wet’suwet’en territories on January 7, 2019. At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has just promised to cap this country’s oil and gas emissions. Trudeau stated: “We’ll cap oil Read more…
To hear environmental defenders Danilo Rueda (Colombia), Nelly Madegwa (Kenya) and Valeria Villalobos (Mexico) speak on Saturday November 6, please register here. A new global poll conducted for the BBC World Service finds that people want their government to play a leadership role in setting ambitious targets at the UN Read more…
As COP26 begins, 19 organizations, including Peace Brigades International and Amnesty International in the United Kingdom, have sent an Open Letter to Alok Sharma on the situation of environmental human rights defenders. Sharma is a cabinet minister in Boris Johnson’s government who is serving as President for the COP26 climate Read more…
CO “Our Mother Earth – militarized, fenced-in, poisoned, a place where basic rights are systematically violated – demands that we take action.” Lenca land defender Berta Cáceres was killed in March 2016, just weeks after the Paris Agreement was signed. The Guardian reports: “The world is squandering the opportunity to Read more…
A new report by the Transnational Institute finds that Canada spent an average of $1.9 billion a year (over the years 2013-18) on the militarization of its borders while only contributing $149 million a year over the same period on climate financing to mitigate the impacts of climate change that Read more…
Video: “By being women in the public space, and as guardians of our Indigenous and local communities and resources, we face marginalization, discrimination and racism, patriarchy and gender-based violence. As women human rights defenders we are at the intersection of all of these systems of oppression.” – Sara Mux, Ixpop Read more…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Veronica Escobar, Norma J. Torres and James P. McGovern are among the signatories of the letter to the Biden Administration. Twelve members of the U.S. Congress have called on the Biden Administration to protect environmental defenders in the lead-up the United Nations COP26 climate summit that starts on Read more…
David R. Boyd, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, will introduce our webinar on land defenders and the United Nations COP26 climate summit on Saturday November 6. To register for that webinar in English/Spanish, click here. Earlier this month, the United Nations Human Rights Council Read more…
Photos: Prime Minister Trudeau addresses the United Nations in September 2016, the RCMP raid Wet’suwet’en territory in January 2019. If the Canadian government continues to enable the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders opposed to fossil fuel megaprojects, it will continue to miss the carbon emission reduction targets it has pledged Read more…
Photo: The G20 virtual summit on October 14, 2021. Peace Brigades International believes that “respect for, protection, promotion and fulfilment of human rights, and the protection of those who defend them, must be an essential and non-negotiable part of measures adopted” at COP26. The United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) Read more…