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The Ottawa Citizen reports: “Ottawa police have arrested four pro-Palestinian protesters for allegedly blocking a downtown street during a demonstration on [the evening of Monday November 18].” The article quotes Sarah Abdul-Karim, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, who said: “We...
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The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs have posted on Instagram and Facebook: “We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors! This National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the generations who fought for our lands, waters, and people — and we carry their fight forward. This is our Laxyip. This...
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Photo from EJ Atlas by Mike Graeme www.mikegraeme.ca. The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP (CRCC) has issued a statement today that highlights it has “published a summary of its final report on the RCMP’s handling of a public complaint regarding enforcement of a civil...
on Sep 27
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Video still of Sleydo’ being arrested by the C-IRG, November 2021. CBC reports: “B.C.'s public safety minister [Mike Farnworth] has condemned the alleged conduct of Coquitlam RCMP officers accused of making racist, homophobic and sexist comments in a private online chat group.” That article...
on Sep 23
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On September 18, the Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and PBI-Canada jointly organized a webinar, moderated by Sandra Wiens, to coincide with the six-month anniversary of the House of Commons vote (on March 18, 2024) to “cease the further authorization and transfer of arms exports to...
on Sep 20
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The following is our English translation of the text in Spanish (also included above) of the statement that was tweeted by the European Union in Honduras and reposted by the embassies of Spain, Germany and France in Honduras: #TeamEurope The ambassadors of the European Union, Spain, Germany and...
on Sep 17
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Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation, presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva this morning. He speaks about his visit to Canada here (starting at 2:09:54). While in Canada this past April 8 to 19, Arrojo-Agudo journeyed to...
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Late last night (September 14), Guapinol Exige Justicia posted on social media: "OUR COMRADE JUAN LOPEZ HAS BEEN MURDERED. Our great friend, colleague and coordinator was murdered as he was leaving the church by men on motorcycles just days after he asked for the resignation of the mayor of...
on Sep 15
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Key excerpts from Missing voices: The violent erasure of land and environment defenders includes: “196 defenders were murdered in 2023 after exercising their right to protect their lands and the environment from harm. The actual number is likely to be higher. This tips the total number of...
on Sep 11
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Image from BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response (Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee, August 28, 2024). Amanda Follett Hosgood of The Tyee reports: “On the heels of the last significant police action on Wet’suwet’en territory [against Indigenous land defenders opposing the construction...
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CBC photo (March 1, 2016): “Tuesday, RCMP flew in to a remote Site C protest camp and stood in a snowy, forest clearing to read protesters Monday's BC Supreme Court order requiring them to leave or face arrest. (Christy Jordan-Fenton)” The Canadian Press reports: “BC Hydro says it has begun...
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Photo: The writing on the wall says: "The water is the people's, dammit!" Next to it are Dalmatas, "el Grupo Especial de Seguridad" special forces brought in by the Bolivian government to suppress demonstrations, February 2000. Bechtel, the Virginia-based engineering transnational corporation at...
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Photo: Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks and land defender Eve Saint meet with EDC in Ottawa, October 16, 2023. The National Observer reports: “Canada provided up to $200 million to pipeline company Coastal Gaslink, recently updated financial data reveals — an apparent violation of a...
on Jul 26
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APTN Video: The C-IRG on Gitxsan territory, November 2021. Construction on the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is now scheduled to begin on Saturday August 24. The 800-kilometre pipeline would carry fracked gas from Hudson's Hope in northeastern British Columbia across Gitanyow...
on Jul 16
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On May 31, Global Affairs Canada released its 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology report. If one looks at the list on pages 22-24 of that report of the non-US countries that Canada exported these goods and technology to and then compares that with the list of countries where Front Line...
on Jun 23
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While hundreds of people protesting the companies at CANSEC that sell weapons and technology that enable genocide, war crimes and repression encountered Ottawa Police Service officers with batons and truncheons, a cursory review of the countries that Canada sells “military goods and technology”...
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Photo: Claudia Sheinbaum. On Monday June 3, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Claudia Sheinbaum, the President-elect of Mexico. The read-out from the conversation between Trudeau and Sheinbaum notes: “They underscored the importance of growing our economies and delivering...
on Jun 5
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Video still. Educa Oaxaca has posted: “Mining represents a serious threat to indigenous communities in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. In the Central Valleys, 12 communities have organized to confront this problem and to defend their territories and dignity. However, despite presenting evidence,...
on Apr 24
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Photo: Maria Jose Acosta Lazo and Pedro Arrojo Agudo at their media conference at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa, April 19. Pedro Arrojo Agudo, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, has concluded his official visit to Canada. In a media statement...
on Apr 20
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The Mongabay web-news portal reports: “[The] rise in criminalization [was] the key focus of a report released this week at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, or UNPFII, the largest gathering of Indigenous activists, policymakers, and leaders in the world. ‘It’s a very serious concern...
on Apr 19
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On April 3, during a webinar organized by PBI-UK and Amnesty International, Maya Q’eqchi’ defender Bernardo Caal Xol spoke about a march by the Peaceful Resistance of Cahabón to the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City. That march took place on May 10, 2023. PBI-Canada was there and compiled...
on Apr 4
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PBI-Guatemala has posted: “On March 16 #PBI accompanies the Council of Communities of Retalhuleu in the commemoration of #WorldWaterDay in the communities of Champerico. In this meeting, members of the Council exchanged on the challenges faced by the communities, such as the lack of water in the...
on Mar 30
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Photo: An Israeli F-35I with four GBU-31 bombs in the foreground. The Boeing-developed Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance tail kit converts an unguided MK-84 bomb into a “smart” guided bomb unit (GBU). Today, on the 176th day of the Israeli assault on Gaza in which 82 people were...
on Mar 30
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Photo: Protest at Colt Canada Corporation plant in Kitchener, Ontario; February 28, 2024. Photo by World Beyond War Canada. On March 18, the House of Commons passed a motion that included an amendment from a Liberal Member of Parliament so that it would read Canada will “cease the further...
on Mar 25
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Photo: An Israeli police armoured vehicle drives by as Palestinian Muslim worshipers who were prevented from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque pray outside Jerusalem's Old City, November 11, 2023. Photo by AP. The CBC reports: “The federal government is deliberately slow-walking a request from Israel...
on Mar 16
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Photo: The RCMP C-IRG assisted the North Vancouver RCMP detachment when pro-2SLGBTQIA+ activists counter-protested anti-SOGI demonstrators in July 2023. Photo by Nick Laba / North Shore News. Following Amanda Follett Hosgood reporting in The Tyee that RCMP Community-Industry Response Group...
on Mar 13
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Photo: Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Thirteen United Nations Special Rapporteurs, including Francesca Albanese, along with several Independent Experts and Working Group members, have stated that “any...
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Photo: In response to the Israeli military bombing of Rafah, an emergency rally was held outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa on February 12. On February 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated: “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire is urgently needed”, “a military operation into Rafah...
on Feb 18
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Photo: Michel Forst on a PBI-Canada webinar about COP28 and environmental defenders, December 7, 2023. Michel Forst, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, has just released this two-page report on “the increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental defenders in the...
on Jan 24
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Dramatic Video Shows Militarized Canadian Police Raid Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders & Journalists (Democracy Now!, November 24, 2021). An abuse of process application was heard in a courtroom in Smithers, British Columbia this past week that alleges the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...
on Jan 23
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For updates go to yintah_access on Instagram, @Gidimten on X, Gidimt'en Checkpoint on Facebook and the Yintah Access website. PBI-Canada continues to follow the criminalization of Indigenous land defenders who sought to protect Wet’suwet’en territory against the construction – without free,...
on Jan 20
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Photo: Wet'suwet'en land defender Molly Wickham, Gitxsan land defender Shay Lynn Sampson, Haudenosaunee land defender Teka’tsihasere Corey Jocko. Peace Brigades International-Canada will be following the trial of three land defenders starting on January 8 and concluding on January 19. CBC has...
on Dec 22
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Photo: MQ-9A Reaper drone. The CBC reports: “A fleet of 11 MQ-9 Reaper drones, built by U.S. defence contractor General Atomics, will be purchased in a $2.49 billion package, Liberal MPs announced Tuesday [December 19] on behalf of Defence Minister Bill Blair.” The article adds: “Unlike other...
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Still from Last Stand Legal Defence Fund video. The Last Stand Legal Defence Fund fundraising page is asking for support for the Indigenous land defenders and climate and old-growth forest activists who face being sued by the Surrey, British Columbia-based logging company Teal Cedar. The page...
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Photo: Delegates at a plenary session of COP28. Photo by UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth. The latest draft of the Global Stocktake (GST) – essentially the COP28 summit declaration – was released on Friday December 8. It can be read here. Significantly, the GST still does not include any reference...
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Members of the Gitxsan nation will be rallying in Smithers tomorrow (November 21) to "ban a militarized RCMP C-IRG that terrorize our people and land defenders." The Gitxsan Huwilp Government says: “Industry-led injunctions ordered by the BC Supreme Court Chief Justice to allow the looting of...
on Nov 21, 2023
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Photo by Alisdare Hickson from the ISHR website. United Nations special experts, including Mary Lawlor, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, say: “Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to...
on Nov 21, 2023
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Photo by Appalachians Against Pipelines. Native News Online reports: “On Monday [October 16], Ojibwe attorney Tara Houska was arrested for criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor in Virginia, after she locked herself to construction equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline construction site in...
on Oct 20, 2023
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Video (at 12:12): Photojournalist Amber Bracken was arrested by RCMP C-IRG officers on November 19, 2021. Bracken says: “For the record, I’m a member of the media. You’ve been notified that I’m here. I’m an observer.” On February 13, 2023, the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) posted:...
on Oct 16, 2023
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Photo: “Members of the Gitxsan Nation’s rally called to dismantle the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group. Photo by Isaac Phan Nay for Canada’s National Observer.” The National Observer reports: “Hereditary chiefs from the Gitxsan First Nation marched to BC Supreme Court in Vancouver on...
on Oct 13, 2023