This GivingTuesday, join PBI-USA in creating important decision-making spaces in 2025 that will ensure we are able to show up in future years in ways most needed by the human rights defenders we support around the world. Your gift will help fund PBI’s critical planning work in 2025 and will help us determine how expansive our plans can be in the year ahead.

Often times, the urgency of human rights work can prevent us from thinking about things like branding. Branding tends to be associated more with the business world. However, there is power in good branding. During planning meetings in 2023 and 2024, PBI staff discussed ways to strengthen our global identity and work through a bit of a rebranding and an updated, more unified website. We are excited to share the results of our discussions.

Peace Brigades International seeks volunteer committee members for its Project supporting capacity-strengthening, advocacy and networking of Women/Human Rights Defenders (W/HRDs) and marginalized groups in Nepal

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“OUR COMRADE JUAN LOPEZ HAS BEEN MURDERED. Our great friend, colleague and coordinator was murdered as he was leaving the church by men on motorcycles just days after he asked for the resignation of the mayor of Libre Adan Funez for his links with drug traffickers. Our hearts are broken. Our deepest condolences go out to Juan Lopez’s wife and daughters, and to all those who have been hurt in this fight for dignity. We will not rest until there is justice for Juan and our martyrs.”

Twenty-six year old International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activist Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi has been killed in the West Bank.

The International Solidarity Movement has issued a statement that says: “During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of [Friday] September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) human rights activist named Ayşenur Eygi.”

Photo: PBI-Mexico accompanies the Peoples’ Front in Defense of Land and Water at the first Assembly of Cholultec Peoples convened by the Union of Peoples and Subdivisions against the Sanitary Landfill and in Defense of Life to reaffirm their rights to self-determination and autonomy; May 14, 2024.

PBI-Honduras has posted:

“From PBI Honduras, we send our deepest condolences to the @CntcTegucigalpa [National Union of Rural Workers] and to the family of campesino leader and land defender Olman García, who was murdered on August 4 in Ceibita Way (Esparta, Atlántida).”