On September 15, Kim-Mai Vu of Peace Brigades International presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council during the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. To watch her presentation in Spanish, please click here. You can also click here and Read more…
On September 13, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted: On Friday [September 10] in Puebla we accompanied Miguel López Vega, his defence and members of Pueblos Unidos. We are concerned about the risk that Miguel and other members of the @fpdtampt [Peoples’ Front in Defence of Land and Water] face Read more…
Photo from Info Quórum video. On September 10, Info Quórum tweeted: “A representative of Peace Brigades International Mexico (@PBI_Mexico) entered the audience of the environmentalist and community communicator Miguel López Vega, who was a #PresoPolítico [political prisoner] due to his defence of the Metlapanapa River.” Adding to that, PBI-Mexico tweeted: Read more…
On September 9, PBI-Mexico posted: “Today in Ciudad Juárez PBI accompanied @CdhPasodelNorte [Paso del Norte Human Rights Centre] and @UnidasVerdad [Families United for Truth and Justice] in a search and removal of land in Granjas de Chapultepec with the presence of @Search_MX [the National Commission for the Search of Disappeared Read more…
Liliana Velázquez and Samantha Cesar. Liliana Velázquez and Samantha César of the Peoples Front in Defence of Land and Water from Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala (FPDTA-MPT) are taking part in the “Journey for Life” tour of the Zapatista Liberation Army (EZLN) through Europe. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s regional office in Mexico Read more…
The Guapinol defenders (Honduras), Bernardo Caal Xol (Guatemala), Yuli Andrea Velázquez (Colombia), Samir Flores (Mexico). Canada does not have due diligence legislation in place that recognizes and addresses (through enforcement mechanisms and meaningful consequences) the dangers faced by human rights defenders (HRDs) who challenge the impacts of Canadian transnational corporations Read more…
On August 26, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted on social media: “Today we accompany the Comité Cerezo México in the planton (blockade/installation) for truth and justice in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) in the context of the international day of the missing detainee.” Read more…
Photo: This banner has the image of Indigenous Náhuatl defender Samir Flores, a member of the Peoples’ Front, was killed in February 2019 after receiving death threats for his opposition to the PIM megaproject. On August 23, PBI-Mexico posted: “In front of the National Water Commission (Conagua) in Cuernavaca, campesinos Read more…
On August 19, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project posted: “In a meeting with the Pasta de Conchos Family Organization, we remember that October 1 is the deadline to start the rescue within the Pasta De Conchos mine.” The explosion at the Grupo Mexico’s Pasta de Conchos coal mine near Nueva Read more…
Short video on the #CambiémoslaYa website. On August 18, the Mexican newspaper La Jornada reported: “Mining in the country has left at least 374 socio-environmental conflicts, derived from the fact that more than 19 thousand localities of the Mexican Republic are settled in territories concessioned to extractive companies.” “This was Read more…