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PBI-Guatemala accompanies Indigenous Community of San Francisco Quezaltepeque in opposition to mining operations

The Indigenous Community of San Francisco Quezaltepeque has posted on Facebook:

Today, August 9, we celebrate the international day of indigenous peoples from our Mayan Ch’orti’ territory in the sacred place 11 aj y cruz de la ermita, in the indigenous community of Quezaltepeque.

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Maya K’iche’ defender Lucía Ixchíu on extractivism in Guatemala; notes the support of PBI in Berlin and Hamburg

Photo of Lucía Ixchíu from Latin America Bureau by Eliana Lafone.

Lucía Ixchíu describes herself as: “K’iche, tree of the Forest, anti-patriarchal, cultural manager, journalist and Indigenous storyteller, architect (Mayan in exile).”

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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.

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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.

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