Thai WHRDs honored at the Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA! #SidebySide
19/10/2018 – The photo project Side by Side – WHRDs 2018 featuring 20 women human rights defenders in Thailand by Luke Duggleby – British Bangkok-based global award-winning photographer- and Protection International, cross the ocean for the first time as part of the Southeast X Southeast exhibition. It is open to the public until 27th October at the Southeast Museum […]
PI participates in the International Seminar on Human Rights in Paraguay
03-04/10/2018 – Protection International, together with many other organizations working with human rights defenders, is participating in the III International Seminar in Paraguay “Mecanismos de protección para defensoras y defensores de derechos humanos: entre el compromiso y el riesgo” (“Protection mechanisms for human rights defenders: between commitment and risks”) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. […]
[Spanish] Collective protection of defenders of rights to land and territory in Colombia: indigenous communities as collective actors. The ACIN case
Collective protection of defenders of rights to land and territory in Colombia: indigenous communities as collective actors. The ACIN case is a joint publication by Protection International and Pensamiento y Acción Social (PAS) that tries to understand and analyse the collective ways in which the Nasa indigenous peoples think and protect themselves (Nasa indigenous people […]
Guatemalan indigenous communities file complaint for dams’ damages
Protection International supports the affected communities of the microregion Ixquisis, together with the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), the International Platform Against Impunity, Front Line Defenders and the Plurinational Ancestral Government of Q’anjob’al, Popti, Chuj and Akateko. The communities have filed a complaint to the Inter-American Development Bank for it to divest from Pojom […]
[Open Letter] Protection International and other organizations support Escazú Agreement – #Sign4TheEnvironment
06/08/2018 – Protection International and hundreds of civil society organizations support the #Sign4TheEnvironment campaign and call on governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to join The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation, and Access to Justice on Environmental Matters (the Escazú Agreement), the most important treaty in the last 20 years on human […]
UPCOMING EVENT: For Those Who Died Trying – Protection International, Frank Horvat & MIVOS Quartet | 6 August | Toronto
Brussels, 16 July 2018 For Those Who Died Trying Protection International announces For Those Who Died Trying, Mivos Quartet’s world premiere concert in Toronto of the Canadian composer Frank Horvat‘s compositions inspired by the homonymous photo exhibition, by British photographer Luke Duggleby. Monday 6 August | 5:00 pm Gathering Hall Mount Pleasant Cemetery 375 Mount Pleasant Rd. Toronto, […]
Open letter to the Government of Honduras: MEPs express their concerns regarding the state of human rights and its defenders in Honduras
Brussels, 26 June 2018 Protection International welcomes the fact that 50 members of the European Parliament have publicly expressed their concerns about human rights violations in Honduras. In this open letter, MEPs wish to encourage the government to swiftly implement comprehensive mechanisms to effectively protect human rights defenders as a fundamental step in the consolidation of the […]
Open letter to the Government of Honduras: MEPs express their concerns regarding the state of human rights and its defenders in Honduras
Brussels, 26 June 2018 Protection International welcomes the fact that 50 members of the European Parliament have publicly expressed their concerns about human rights violations in Honduras. In this open letter, MEPs wish to encourage the government to swiftly implement comprehensive mechanisms to effectively protect human rights defenders as a fundamental step in the consolidation of the […]
The short film “No estamos solas”, co-produced by PI Mesoamerica, COPINH and ADES, nominated for the best short documentary at the Americas Film Festival of New York.
23 May 2018 The short film “No estamos solas” (“We are not alone”), directed by María Aizpuru, in which Protection International Mesoamerica, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) participated, has been nominated for the best documentary short film by the Americas Film […]
The short film “No estamos solas”, co-produced by PI Mesoamerica, COPINH and ADES, nominated for the best short documentary at the Americas Film Festival of New York.
23 May 2018 The short film “No estamos solos” (“We are not alone”), directed by María Aizpuru, in which Protection International Mesoamerica, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and the Association for Economic and Social Development (ADES) participated, has been nominated for the best documentary short film by the Americas Film […]