Meet Dan Clark, General Secretary & Founder, 1981
Dan Clark, author of A Privileged Life: Memoirs of an Activist, served as the first General Secretary of Peace Brigades International and organizer of the Central America Project.
Solidarity
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Meet Winnie Romeril, Guatemala, 1989-1990
Winnie Romeril joined PBI while looking for a way to return to Latin America without a U.S. government job, and the experiences she had altered the course of her life. The democratic structure of PBI greatly enhanced what she gained from training, activism, and speaking tours. Her reflections remind volunteers the value of sharing the work of the human rights defenders they accompanied.
Meet Meredith Larson, Guatemala, 1989
Meredith Larson joined PBI in Guatemala in August-December of 1989 after attending Liam Mahony’s speaking tour. Her experience allowed her to form connections with Guatemalan human rights defenders she cultivates to this day.
International Women's Day 2026: Facing a Violent Global Context
Women human rights defenders across the world are fighting for positive change in their communities within an increasingly violent global context. They share many challenges experienced by their male counterparts but face additional obstacles because they undermine the status quo twice over: through their work in its own right, and through their implicit challenge to accepted norms about the role of women in society.
PBI-Honduras sends condolences on the murder of CNTC campesino leader and land defender Olman Garcia
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).”
PBI-Colombia accompanies CREDHOS screening of “The Wounds of the River” documentary
CREDHOS has posted on Facebook:
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).”