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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

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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 8h
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10h
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10h
PBI-Guatemala accompanies Indigenous Maya Ch’orti’ councils to meeting with the Chiquimula Departmental Government: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10h
PBI-Colombia accompanies Catatumbo Peasant Association (Ascamcat) assembly that strengthens defence of territory: pbicanada.org/2026/09/30/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10h
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PBI-Canada concerned by the surveillance and harassment of Filipino human rights defender Danilo “Ka Daning” Ramos: pbicanada.org/2026/09/18/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
PBI-Mexico accompanies the Ejido El Bajío rural community that Mexican army enters without authorization: pbicanada.org/2026/09/16/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canadian prime minister highlights critical minerals, LNG exports, solidarity and international law in speech to European Parliament: pbicanada.org/2026/09/17/c... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
PBI-Colombia accompanies Ascamcat campesina association that highlights Buffalo Farmers’ Committee in Catatumbo: pbicanada.org/2026/09/13/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
PBI-Honduras seeks field volunteers to accompany human rights defenders, deadline to apply is October 30: pbicanada.org/2026/09/13/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PBI-Guatemala continues to accompany the Military Diary court process, next hearing to be held on September 21: pbicanada.org/2026/09/11/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PBI collaborates on joint report on human rights in Ecuador, makes four recommendations to the Canadian government: pbicanada.org/2026/09/10/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Affected communities mobilize against the announced expansion of the “San José” mining project in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca: pbicanada.org/2026/09/10/a... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PBI-Honduras accompanies press conference that says Agro-Industrial Law could become tool to persecute human rights defenders. This article examines Canada's political, economic and military relationship with Honduras: pbicanada.org/2026/09/10/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
PBI-Colombia welcomes the United Nations recognition of December 19 as International Women Searchers Day: pbicanada.org/2026/09/10/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
PBI-Guatemala accompanies Human Rights Law Firm at hearing for youth activist Dulce Archila and Indigenous defender Nanci Sinto: pbicanada.org/2026/09/08/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Can Peace Brigades International as “a non-violent international presence stop a bullet” and help protect the life of a human rights defender? pbicanada.org/2026/09/08/c... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Peace Brigades International-Canada present at the 2026 Labour Day march in Ottawa: pbicanada.org/2026/09/08/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PBI-Canada congratulates Yuli Andrea Velásquez (Fedepesan) and the Corporation for Judicial Freedom (CJL) for winning the National Human Rights Award in Colombia: pbicanada.org/2026/09/08/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
PBI-Colombia accompanies the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace to assess earthquake damage in Buenaventura: pbicanada.org/2026/09/05/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
International Observation and Solidarity Mission (with PBI) to release report on human rights situation in Ecuador on September 10: pbicanada.org/2026/09/05/i... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
PBI-Guatemala accompanies family of Luz Leticia at court hearing, verdict on her forcible disappearance expected on September 17: pbicanada.org/2026/09/04/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today is the 45th anniversary of the formation of Peace Brigades International. #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW VIDEO! “In 1981 on Grindstone Island, Indigenous territory of the Algonquin peoples, a group of activists met with a radical question: Can a non-violent international presence stop a bullet?” pbicanada.org/2026/09/04/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PBI-Honduras seeking former field volunteers for 4-6 month placement starting in mid-October, deadline to apply is September 15: pbicanada.org/2026/09/03/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PBI-Honduras visits Dignified Camp established in opposition to Agrecasa limestone mine, pollution of Sapadril Creek and waterways: pbicanada.org/2026/09/03/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PBI podcast interviews Indigenous Nahua defender Miryam Vargas of the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water in Mexico: pbicanada.org/2026/09/03/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Peace Brigades International interviews Honduran defender Gabriela Sorto in Donostia on the protection of territory, nature and human rights: pbicanada.org/2026/09/03/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PBI-Colombia remembers human rights defender Yanette Bautista on the one-year anniversary of her passing: pbicanada.org/2026/09/02/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PBI-Honduras shares Urgent Alert about threats and intimidation to displace CNTC “La Democracia” farming community: pbicanada.org/2026/09/02/p... #PBIaccompanies
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Peace Brigades International-Canada @pbicanada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PBI-Guatemala accompanies the Maya Ch’orti’ Indigenous Council of Olopa, Chiquimula to dialogue to end discrimination against ancestral authorities: pbicanada.org/2026/09/02/p... #PBIaccompanies
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