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Civil society orgs worldwide release new supplement to UN Declaration protecting human rights defenders

Following a year-long project involving consultations with human rights defenders, Peace Brigades International joined a coalition of human rights organizations to release the Declaration +25, a landmark document systematizing relevant developments in regional and international human rights law and standards of the last 25 years.

PBI-Colombia accompanies Peace Community of San José de Apartadó as paramilitary threat intensifies

PBI-Colombia has posted on Instagram:

“We will continue to seek development that respects life and rights” – Germán Graciano, Legal Representative of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó.

Last June 5, we accompanied @sanjoapartado in a meeting with diplomatic body and government to follow up on their social and environmental justice processes.

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PBI-Guatemala accompanies media conference denouncing attacks and evictions of Maya Q’eqchi’ communities

On June 11, PBI-Guatemala posted: “PBI accompanies UVOC and the Campesino/Peasant Council, formed by CCDA, CUC, New Day and UVOC, at their press conference in which they denounced the complicity of the authorities of Alta Verapaz with the farmers to evict Indigenous and peasant communities.”

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PBI-Honduras visits with National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) that sees little change in unequal land ownership

The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted: “[On June 3] we met with Melany Chavarria, general secretary of the CNTC [National Union of Rural Workers] in La Paz. From the CNTC they shared their concerns with us about the little progress regarding land titling and obtaining legal status for peasant bases.”

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PBI-Kenya stands in solidarity with the families of victims of police killings at trial of officer Ahmed Rashid

On June 12, PBI-Kenya posted: “Today, we stand in solidarity with families of victims of police killings. The #TrialOfAhmedRashid, formerly of Pangani 9, continues before Justice Kavedza at Kibera Law Court. Rashid was charged with the 2017 murders of Jamal Mohammed and Mohammed Dhair Kheri in Eastleigh.”

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CREDHOS: “We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine”

Photo: Iván Madero Vergel is the president of CREDHOS.

On June 8, the Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS) posted: “We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. In the midst of a rally in Munich, Germany, we express our solidarity with the People of Palestine who resist with dignity. And today, in unison, we say: Stop the genocide!”

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