On June 16 at 2 pm EDT, PBI-Nederland will be convening a webinar with Mexican human rights defender David Augusto Jiménez Mireles. David works at the Fray Juan de Larios Diocesis Centre for Human Rights, which PBI-Mexico began to formally accompany in February 2014. David, who accompanies families of missing Read more…
Photo: Victor Hugo on the recent PBI webinar ‘Police violence has no borders’. Peace Brigades International-Nederland is supporting Afro-Colombian defender Victor Hugo Moreno Mina through the Shelter City Network. PBI-Nederland has tweeted this quote from Victor: “What I do as a human rights defender in Colombia is to protect and Read more…
The Shelter City Network is a grouping of 11 cities in The Netherlands that recognize the dangers and stress experienced by human rights defenders. Human rights defenders (HRDs) include those who work to defend land, water, Indigenous, LGBTQI+ and human rights around the world. According to a report by Dublin-based Front Line Read more…
Please see this Peace Brigades International-Netherlands statement on Sustainable Development Goal 16 which has been translated into English below: The Sustainable Development Goals – often abbreviated as SDGs and successors to the Millennium Development Goals that dominated many development agendas from 2000 to 2015 – should serve as a guide Read more…