Honduran human rights defender Reynaldo Dominguez on the struggle for environmental justice in Guapinol

PBI UK meets Indigenous community journalist Carlos Choc and environmental rights defender Reynaldo Dominguez, who are calling on the European Union and the UK to enact due diligence legislation that protects the environment and the individuals and communities who defend it.

Last week, Peace Brigades International (PBI) joined a group of civil society organisations in publishing a joint briefing paper for MPs making the case for a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act.

Whose voices were heard at COP27, and whose were ignored? As the talks come to a close, we reflect on the messages of front line environmental defenders

The destructive impact of monocultural practices on local communities in Guatemala

PBI UK welcomes two human rights defenders from Honduras and Guatemala to London

Ahead of the COP27, we ask for the increased recognition and protection of environmental defenders.

Carlos Ernesto Choc Chub, indigenous Maya Q'eqchi’ human rights defender and journalist, has been forced to relocate several times to protect his own safety. He faces criminalisation, threats, physical attacks and raids on his home. His ‘crime’? Investigating and reporting the truth.

PBI interviewed Diana Villalobos Diaz, Director of the Consultoria Técnica Comunitaria, A.C. (CONTEC) during her advocacy tour in the UK and Spain in October 2022.

PBI has accompanied CONTEC in Chihuahua, Mexico since early 2022.

PBI Colombia Call for Volunteers: Apply before the November 27 to become work in Colombia alongside human rights defenders

This week, we welcomed Diana Villalobos Díaz, a prominent Mexican human rights defender, and Director of local human rights organisation CONTEC which defends indigenous communities in the Sierra Tarahumara, to London.

PBI UK hosts speaker tour focused on defending indigenous rights in Mexico, the most dangerous country in the world for land and environmental rights defenders

In a context of extreme violence and political corruption, human rights defenders in Ciudad Juárez are supporting victims and advocating for the changes needed to stem the tide of disappearances

In light of the International Day of Non-Violence, PBI UK’s Samantha-Rose Parvin looks at the threats facing nonviolent human rights defenders, and why they do it

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PBI Mexico Call for Volunteers: Apply before the October 28 to become work in Mexico alongside human rights defenders

On the International Day of Peace, join us in celebrating Kenyan human rights defenders bringing peace to their communities through the Social Justice Centre movement

After 20 years protecting human rights defenders in Mexico, new PBI report highlights the current threats facing activists there, and what we’re doing to support them

If the new government is to improve Britain’s security, sustainability, and standing in the world, then it needs new direction on regulation, rights, and global civic freedoms.