PBI’s work is important because it helps to make visible the work of people who struggle to exercise their human rights in a neutral and peaceful way. It has helped me to continue doing something for Latin America from the place I emigrated to a few years ago
Scarlett Menéndez
Mexico, 2018-2020
I am absolutely convinced of the good work of PBI and of the need for the persistence of non-violent work for the respect of human rights and the defense of the different struggles. I also respect the different organizations accompanied by PBI
Pilar
Mexico, 2006-2007
On 26th September 2014, 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were forcibly abducted and disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, in southern Mexico. PBI accompanies the ‘Tlachinollan’ Human Rights Centre, who provide legal support to the family members of the disappeared students.
PBI focused it’s initial accompaniment efforts in the State of Guerrero, where there was little international attention despite widespread human rights violations. One of the early accompanied organisations in Guerrero was the ‘Tlachinollan’ Human Rights Centre, which documents human rights violations, and carries out advocacy, outreach, education and strategic litigation of human rights cases.
Following the worsening of the human rights situation in the country and requests from local civil society organisations, PBI opens a project.
PBI joins SiPaz, a coalition of over 40 international organizations set up in 1995 in response to growing violence following the Zapatista uprising in 1994 in Chiapas, Mexico. The coalition disseminates information on the conflict situation, provides accompaniment to local activists, and organises peace education workshops to strengthen the capacity of local organisations.
This work is continued today by the International Service for Peace (SiPaz).