PBI's founding meeting began 45 years ago this week
Solidarity
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PBI 45: 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.
PBI 45: 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.
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).”