I see PBI’s work as a way of being able to help, without being patronizing, but very conscious of my privileged position

Kathi Dunkel
Guatemala, 2011-2012

During my first field experience, I met people who remain very important in my life to this day. PBI’s work is important because of the solidarity it embodies

Aurore Guyard
Mexico 

PBI has been a fundamental work experience in my path, it has allowed me to be trained in security related issues and it was a unique life experience. After PBI I began to collaborate with a local organization in Oaxaca with which I have now been working for 9 years.

Emilie DeWolf,
Mexico, 2010-2012

It allowed me to get to know a very well planned and organized way of working as a team and network, and gave me the opportunity to meet extraordinary people and communities (defenders)

Alvaro Zaldivar
Guatemala, 2011-2012

PBI’s work is fundamental because it represents international solidarity with human rights defenders and a commitment to change the world. PBI offers an opportunity to grow as a person, in contact with human rights defenders who fight for human rights despite the risks they face, and because of the horizontal organizational structure that forces greater reflection and greater responsibility from each of its members

Vicente Vallies
Colombia, 2000-ahora

Opening spaces of peace for women and men defenders seems to me necessary and urgent, they are the last bastion of civilization in this world.

Carla Cavarretta
Mexico, 2008-now

The experience has changed my life, both personally and professionally 

Romina Bettucci
Honduras, 2015
Mexico, 2018

Working with PBI made me change my way of seeing the world and also labor organizations. I was very inspired by the horizontality of the organization and the non-violent communication it promotes, always based on love

Laetitia
Colombia, 2016-2019

There is a before and an after PBI. It has made me grow personally and professionally

Melissa May
Mexico, 2015-2021

I can say that PBI’s work is important, beyond my opinion, based on the testimony of the human rights defenders that PBI has accompanied specifically in Guatemala, where I had the opportunity to be a volunteer

Jorge Palomeque
Guatemala, 2009-2011