PBI-Canada annual review 2025 – Peace Brigades International-Canada

November 18, 2025

Photo: PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson with PBI-Mexico accompanied Espacio OSC defenders during an advocacy intervention in Ottawa, September 2025.

Throughout 2025, PBI-Canada worked to communicate the struggles of accompanied defenders, organizations and communities; advocate for specific measures to address the aggressions they face; both research and act on business and human rights concerns that impact defenders; and to be on-the-ground in communities to bring international attention to front line defenders in Canada.

Our communications work included almost daily contextualized articles about accompaniments amplified via our website, social media channels and e-newsletters. We also organized five webinars, including one about COP30 with Indigenous West Papuan environmental defenders, one with Indigenous front line defenders in Honduras and Guatemala, and another about the human rights impacts related to the export-import terminal in Buenaventura, Colombia.

Read More: https://pbicanada.org/2025/11/18/pbi-canada-annual-review-2025/