On September 30, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu presented on the human rights situation in Kenya during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) general debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. She stated: “We welcome the important contributions to the UPR of Kenya. Due to Covid-19 Read more…
On September 25, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu presented a joint PBI-Franciscans International statement on the human rights situation in Guatemala to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. She stated: “In Guatemala, 677 attacks against human rights defenders were documented between January and June 2020, nearly Read more…
Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu recently made two presentations about the human rights situation in Colombia at the United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. On September 17, at the Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of non-recurrence, Kim-Mai noted: “The Read more…
Swiss citizens will soon be voting in a referendum on a popular initiative known as the Responsible Business Initiative. A survey conducted in May shows that 78 per cent of eligible voters would vote in favour of this initiative. How might this relate to a Canadian company? As noted on Read more…
On July 1, the Federal Council confirmed that a referendum will take place on November 29 on two popular initiatives: “Responsible companies – to protect the human being and the environment” and “For a ban on financing producers of war material”. Reuters has also reported: “Swiss voters look set to Read more…
On March 4, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on the report made by UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Michel Forst on his November 20-December 3, 2018 visit to Colombia. Forst’s report can be Read more…
On March 6, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu made this presentation to the 43rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva: “Madame President, PBI notes with concern the ongoing attacks against persons who defend the land and the environment in Mexico. In particular we would like Read more…
On February 28, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland Advocacy Coordinator Kim-Mai Vu presented to the 43rd Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The video of her presentation can be seen here (from 1:07:30 to 1:09:00). Kim-Mai commented on the human rights reports on Colombia, Guatemala and Honduras. She stated: Read more…
On February 19, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland posted, “PBI volunteer Sophie Helle wrote four short articles for the online platform Jet d’Encre after her return from deployment in Colombia. In it, she talks about her experiences as a volunteer in action in Bogotá, where she lived and worked for 18 months.” Read more…
On February 17, Peace Brigades International-Switzerland posted on its Facebook page about the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the European Free Trade Association and Indonesia. PBI-Switzerland notes, “In December 2019, Switzerland approved the free trade agreement between the European Free Trade Association EFTA (Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and Indonesia.” Read more…