Defenders of Life, Land, and Liberty: 5 Stories of Transformation.
A brief overview of how PBI’s model of physical and political accompaniment has turned the tide for human rights defenders globally.
Guatemala
Press Focus: Landmark 2024 conviction of police officers for the illegal detention of Norma Sancir.
After being illegally detained whilst covering a protest in 2014, Peace Brigades International has supported journalist Norma Sancir in her decade-long mission to secure justice - and a landmark ruling for journalistic freedom in Guatemala.
Kenya
Community Resistance: The 2025 disbandment of the Nuclear Power and Energy Agency (NuPEA).
When the construction of a nuclear power plant threatened to destroy one of the most abundant natural environments on the planet, environmental defenders in Kilifi County, Kenya, called on Peace Brigades International to help them protect their homes and their livelihoods.
Colombia
Legislative Change: The 2024 passage of Law 2364 - the first in the world to protect women searching for the disappeared.
Yanette Bautista was just 27 when her sister Nydia was forcibly disappeared during Colombia’s devastating armed conflict. She was murdered by state authorities and her whereabouts concealed. For over 30 years, Peace Brigades International has stood alongside Yanette as she fights for justice, and protection for women searching for lost loved ones.
Indonesia
Indigenous Land Rights: Revocation of palm oil permits covering 90,000 hectares of Moi ancestral land.
Indonesia is the world’s largest palm oil exporter. Between 2001 and 2017 commercial ventures destroyed more than 24 million hectares of the country’s tree cover - an area nearly the size of the United Kingdom. Alumni of Peace Brigades International’s pioneering human rights courses in Indonesia are now leading the fight to protect the Indigenous communities who call these forests home.
Mexico
Environmental Justice: The official closure of the "landfill of death" in Calpan in August 2024.
In the foothills of the towering Popocatépetl volcano, Peace Brigades International supports indigenous communities who are protecting their ancestral lands from the sprawling industrial projects threatening their environment, health and security.
