• 25 January 2018
    Mexico: The struggle of the Me’Phaa against mining
    January 25, 2018 An indigenous community from the region of La Montaña (state of Guerrero) have been waging a legal battle since 2011 to prevent their lands from being conceded to mining companies. The indigenous Me’phaa community lives in San Miguel del Progreso, or Júba Wajiín in their indigenous language. In the last seven years, they have obtained two legal protection mechanisms that have rendered a mining project practically null and void.
  • 24 January 2018
    Honduras: Land of corn and hydroelectric dams
    Martín Gómez is a small, slim man. He walks with confidence and you can see that he has planted corn and grain all his life. He lives in the middle of green mountains in Santa Elena, southern Honduras. Martín is part of the MILPAH indigenous movement, created in 2010 to defend land and the Lenca indigenous community, a predominant indigenous people in Honduras. A year after the organization was founded, the Honduran government approved a concession for the construction of the Los Encinos S.A. hydroelectric dam in Santa Elena on the Chinacla river.
  • 23 January 2018
    Alert: Attacks against HRDs in Honduras increase following elections
    January 22, 2018
  • 22 January 2018
    Report on implementation of Colombian peace treaty
    January 22, 2018 Peace Accord implementation has been slow and lacking in many areas, especially as the country has turned its attention to presidential elections, which will be held in Colombia on May 27th. Some progress, however, has been made. Luz Marina Monzon has been appointed head of the Search Unit for Disappeared Persons (Unidad de Busqueada para las Personas Desaparecidas), which must be set up as mandated by the Peace Accords.
  • 20 January 2018
    In her own words: Aurelia Arzú, Fraternal Black Organisation of Honduras (OFRANEH), Honduras
    Aurelia Arzú is a human rights defender from the Garifuna community in Honduras and vice coordinator of the Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH). OFRANEH work to safeguard the economic, social, and cultural rights of the unique Garifuna ethnic community.
  • 18 January 2018
    Atiriri Bururi ma Chuka: The struggle to reclaim ancestral lands
    January 18, 2018
  • 12 January 2018
    Dam Opponents Suffer Killings and Mass Arrests in La Concepión
    January 12, 2018 On January 7, 2018, in the village of La Concepción in Guerrero in southern Mexico, extrajudicial executions, acts of torture, and arbitrary detentions were carried out against members of a community group (CECOP, Communities Opposing the Dam La Parota) and against community police (Regional Coordination of Community Authorities – Community Police, or CRAC-PC, a community self-defense initiative). The community groups are targeted for their opposition to a dam on the Papagayo River.
  • 18 December 2017
    International Observatory formed in response to Mexico's Internal Security Law
    December 18, 2017 Washington, DC / New York / Stuttgart / Geneva  
  • 5 December 2017
    PBI: The defense of human rights is key in the present context of Honduras
    PBI is observing with deep concern the situacion in Honduras in the days following the general elections that took place on November 26th, 2017. We hereby make an urgent call to the international community to call on the Honduran government to comply with their obligation to guarantee the protection, promotion, and respect of human rights and fundamental liberties.
  • 20 November 2017
    In her own words: Olga Silva, Humanidad Vigente, Colombia
    The following is from an interview conducted in 2017 with Olga Silva by PBI UK.

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