• 6 February 2020
    Social Justice, criminalized
    PBI accompany human rights defenders in different parts of the world who push for social justice and respect for the rule of law. This work often implies considerable risk. PBI supports many defenders who have been crimianlised for the work they carry out, meaning the legal system is used against them in order to stop their resistance. 
  • 10 December 2019
    Human Rights Defenders at the centre
    This December, and continuously, PBI puts human rights defenders at the centre, in the position they deserve given the fundamental role they play in the protection of human rights and the construction of fair and peaceful societies. Human rights defenders continue to provide voices for the voiceless, pushing for social justice. They often risk their lives to stand up for what they believe in, holding states to account and pushing for human rights to be respected, protected and fulfilled.
  • 22 October 2019
    “We see ourselves as cultivators of hope”
    At the end of 2018, small-scale farmers became protagonists at the United Nations.
  • 20 September 2019
    We must protect those who protect the environment
    Today, 20th September 2019, the environment takes centre stage as people across the world join in a Global Climate Strike, urging governments and the private sector to take concrete action in order to avoid further deterioration of our climate and the manifold human rights impacts that this would imply.
  • 5 September 2019
    PBI turns 38 years
    38 years ago, on September 4, 1981, the international human rights organization Peace Brigades International was founded.
  • 31 August 2019
    ASODEBICOQ, two years defending natural resources in Quimistán
    Kevin Ramírez’s community is located between the clear waters of rock pools where families bathe and the jungle-covered mountains that mark the border between Honduras and Guatemala.
  • 9 July 2019
    2018, sixth year of accompaniment in Honduras
    “We feel safer since we started being accompanied by PBI”. “Whenever I travel to certain places in the country I always ask for PBI accompaniment”. “The presence of PBI during hearings helps a lot. Our people feel supported and can identify as human rights defenders”.
  • 25 April 2019
    Business and Human Rights: from conventions to reality
    “They want to take the forest away from us, and they want to ask us the best way to do it.
  • 20 December 2018
    The struggle for life in Honduras
    Honduras is full of natural riches: coral reefs, mountains covered in trees, clear rivers and abundant flora and fauna. However, defending these natural resources can be a high-risk activitie. According to an investigation by Global Witness, since 2010 more than 120 environmental defenders have been killed in Honduras.Concessions
  • 3 October 2018
    "Rural women are most strongly affected": Rosa Santamaría
    Many people know that according to Global Witness,1 Honduras is the most dangerous place in the world for environmental rights defenders, a fact that was reiterated by Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, in his recent visit to the country,2 however, the situation is even more serious if the defender is a woman.