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Peace Brigades International-Canada
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Peace Brigades International accompanies at-risk organizations, defenders and communities so that they may continue their work in defence of human rights. Posts by Brent Patterson. #PBIaccompanies
We take note of the support provided by the PBI-accompanied Association for Social Research and Action (Nomadesc) to the Indigenous Wounaan community of Chachajo that was hit hard by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake on August 10 in Colombia: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/n... #PBIaccompanies
Hundreds gather near the Kamloops Indian Residential School on the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/h... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Guatemala accompanies Indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ councils to meeting with the Chiquimula Departmental Government: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Colombia accompanies Catatumbo Peasant Association (Ascamcat) assembly that strengthens defence of territory: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI speaks at the United Nations in Geneva about the Garifuna struggle against displacement on Cayos Cochinos in Honduras: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/p... #PBIaccompanies
Filipino human rights defender Cristina Palabay speaks against the “National Action Plan for Unity, Peace and Development" at the Kapit Bisig conference in Toronto: pbicanada.org/2026/09/28/f... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Canada attentive to Wet’suwet’en land and environmental defenders responding to the LNG Canada Phase 2 final investment decision being announced today that would mean the construction of compressor stations on their territory: pbicanada.org/2026/09/29/p... #PBIaccompanies
Hundreds march in downtown Toronto to “Shut Down Pax Silica”, stop the displacement of Indigenous and local communities in the Philippines: pbicanada.org/2026/09/26/h... #PBIaccompanies
At least 16 social, trade union or political activists killed in Colombia since Abelardo de la Espriella sworn-in as president in August: pbicanada.org/2026/09/23/a... #PBIaccompanies
What could the Canadian government's Bill C-39 promise of investor certainty and speed for major projects mean for Indigenous land and environmental defenders on their sovereign territories in Canada? pbicanada.org/2026/09/22/w... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Honduras witnesses eviction attempt by police contingent, continues to accompany OFRANEH encampment on Cayo Menor in the Cayos Cochinos archipelago: pbicanada.org/2026/09/22/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Mexico accompanied defender Nuria Yamada speaks about mining, avocados, the Protection Mechanism and Maria Cruz Paz at the UN in Geneva. To read about Canadian mining and avocado imports from Michoacán, Mexico, go to: pbicanada.org/2026/09/23/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Nicaragua accompanied Indigenous Mayangna leader Lusben Taylor speaks at the UN in Geneva about the impacts of mining on territories (where a Vancouver-based mining company is present): pbicanada.org/2026/09/23/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Canada attentive to the Credhos urgent action about the situation in the Middle Magdalena, southern Bolívar and the Cimitarra River Valley: pbicanada.org/2026/09/23/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Canada concerned by the surveillance and harassment of Filipino human rights defender Danilo “Ka Daning” Ramos: pbicanada.org/2026/09/18/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Guatemala accompanies Luz Leticia family as former BROE commander sentenced to 50 years in prison for enforced disappearances: pbicanada.org/2026/09/18/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI speaks at the UN in Geneva about the need to implement the law on women searchers in Colombia: pbicanada.org/2026/09/18/p... #PBIaccompanies
Alternative Federal Budget calls for strengthening of Protection Mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico, $100 million for a Civil Peace Service for crisis zones: pbicanada.org/2026/09/17/a... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Mexico accompanies the Ejido El Bajío rural community that Mexican army enters without authorization: pbicanada.org/2026/09/16/p... #PBIaccompanies
Canadian prime minister highlights critical minerals, LNG exports, solidarity and international law in speech to European Parliament: pbicanada.org/2026/09/17/c... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Colombia accompanies the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation and ASOMADCA on a “territorial reconnaissance activity” to find missing persons in Cartago: pbicanada.org/2026/09/16/p... #PBIaccompanies
“They’re the thieves”: Indigenous land defender Kanahus Manuel outside the Canada Investment Summit gala dinner in Toronto: pbicanada.org/2026/09/15/t... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Canada seeks to strengthen the accompaniment of human rights defenders with the European Parliament office in Ottawa: pbicanada.org/2026/09/15/p... #PBIaccompanies
Remembering PBI-Guatemala accompanying the GAM protest against forcible disappearances at a military parade 40 years ago today: pbicanada.org/2026/09/15/r... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Mexico accompanies Cerezo Committee at 27th meeting of the Special Search Commission for Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Cruz: pbicanada.org/2026/09/15/p... #PBIaccompanies
Indigenous land defenders Chief Na’Moks and Gwii Lok’im Gibuu reject major projects to be pitched at Canada Investment Summit in Toronto: pbicanada.org/2026/09/15/c... #PBIaccompanies
Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks and Gitxsan hereditary leader Gwii Lok’im Gibuu speak in Toronto on the eve of the Canada Investment Summit that Mark Carney has convened to advance major projects like the PRGT pipeline: pbicanada.org/2026/09/14/c... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Colombia accompanies Ascamcat campesina association that highlights Buffalo Farmers’ Committee in Catatumbo: pbicanada.org/2026/09/13/p... #PBIaccompanies
PBI-Honduras seeks field volunteers to accompany human rights defenders, deadline to apply is October 30: pbicanada.org/2026/09/13/p... #PBIaccompanies