The Guardian: My legal hero: Dr Alirio Uribe Muñoz, 17 November 2010
A Colombian human rights lawyer, Uribe fights for the oppressed in a country where such work attracts deadly enemies
PBI Mexico: Radilla Sentence: International Bar Association demands implementation
The International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has written to Mexican President Felipe Calderón to demand that the Mexican State fully comply with the sentence emitted by the Inter American Court of Human Rights in the case of the forced disappearance of Rosendo Radilla.
PBI Mexico: See the documentaries by Gael García and Amnesty International about migrants in Mexico
Amnesty International and Mexican actor and producer Gael García Bernal, have launched a series of films depicting the plight of irregular migrants in Mexico.
SUPPORT NETWORK ACTIVATION - Threats against groups accompanied by PBI
On this occasion, we are writing to selected contacts of PBI Guatemala Project Support Network to express our concern about a dramatic increase in SERIOUS THREATS against Guatemalan human rights defenders that we accompany. The threats are happening in the context of their work promoting economic, social, cultural and environmental rights, and the right of indigenous peoples to be informed and consulted before approval is given to large-scale development projects that affect them and their lands.
PBI concerned by surveillance and interception of human rights defenders communications
Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1981, which promotes the protection of human rights and peace by supporting the work of human rights defenders in Indonesia, Nepal, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia.
PBI works with UK and US lawyers to strengthen support for lawyers at risk
Lawyers in some countries are subjected to threats to themselves or their families, are physically attacked and even forcibly "disappeared" simply for doing their jobs. In Colombia alone, up to 25 lawyers are killed each year.
Video: The Luis Carlos Pérez Lawyers' Collective: helping small farmers defend their rights
The Luis Carlos Pérez Collective (CCALCP) is composed of women human rights defenders who have been accompanying victims of human rights violations in Santander and the North of Santander for nine years. They offer legal assessment, and also investigate and denounce cases of human rights violations in Colombia. This video shows the work that they have been doing with a peasant community that has been approached by companies interested in coal exploration and extraction.
PBI Mexico: Judge gives condemnatory sentence to members of indigenous community radio station
David Valtierra Arango, Genaro Cruz Apóstol y Silverio Matías Domínguez, members of Radio Ñomndaa, a community project of the indigenous amuzgo group of Xochistlahuaca, Guerrero, have been condemned to three years and two months in prison, as well as the payment of a fine of 1,753 Mexican Pesos.
PBI has followed the legitimate and respected community work of Radio Ñomndaa for several years, and has previously expressed its concern for the security of its members, who have often reported harassment and aggressions against them.
