PBI-Guatemala accompanied Council of Communities of Retalhuleu (CCR) highlights need for water legislation
Photo: The CCR observes water being taken from a river for a water-intensive sugar plantation; May 3, 2023.
PBI-Colombia accompanies the CSPP at Roundtable meeting visibilizing the criminalization of social leaders who opposed Frontera Energy
The Peace Brigades International-Colombia Project accompanied the Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners (CSPP) at the recent meeting of the Roundtable for Human Rights in the face of corporate power (la Mesa por los DDHH frente al poder empresarial) and the United Nations Business and Human Rights Working Group.
PBI-Kenya calls for the release of activists arbitrarily detained before protest against vote on finance bill
PBI-Kenya has posted:
PBI-Honduras accompanies COPINH at protest, 12 Lenca communities win titles for ancestral territories
On July 17, PBI-Honduras posted:
“Yesterday and today, we accompanied Copinh Honduras [the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras] at a demonstration inside the facilities of the National Agrarian Institute (INA).
COPINH demands advancement for the community title processes of several indigenous territories, specifically in the communities of Montaña Verde, El Achiotal, Rio Blanco, El Naranjo and La Jarcia.
PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa in court, hearing postponed to February 2025
Photo by Prensa Comunitaria.
On July 18, PBI-Guatemala posted: “Today members of the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa face a hearing in a process of criminalizing their right to defend their territory Ch’orti’.”
PBI-Kenya says peaceful protesters exercising their rights as police hurl teargas at them on Mombasa Road in Nairobi
PBI-Kenya has posted: “The peaceful protesters in Nairobi CBD [Central Business District], Mombasa road and all across the country are simply exercising their rights.”
PBI-Mexico accompanies reconnaissance activities in Oaxaca in the continuing search for EPR members Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sánchez
Photo by Noticias Oaxaca NVI.
PBI-Colombia accompanies Peace Community on the 24th anniversary of July 8 massacre as paramilitary threats against community continue
PBI-Colombia has posted:
“We accompany the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, @sanjoapartadó in the commemoration of the massacre of July 8, 2000, in which 6 of its members were murdered in the village of La Unión by paramilitaries in collusion with the security forces. To remember is an act of resistance.”
PBI-Kenya supports call for police accountability following the deaths of more than 40 people at recent protests
Video still: Reuters news report, July 16, 2024.