“Gestalt Notebook” for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

Protection International Mesoamerica has produced a “Gestalt Notebook” for the work of protecting women human rights defenders. This publication arose from need to remotely accompany networks of defenders within their territories during the COVID-19 pandemic. The publication contains exercises that aim to respond to the experiences, thoughts and emotions of the defenders from home in […]

National and international organizations call for an end to threats and harassment against journalists and human rights defenders in the Q’eqchi’ Maya territory

Download the original declaration here We, the undersigned national and international human rights organizations, express our concern for the threats, intimidation and provocations that human rights defenders, journalists and social communicators are suffering in El Estor, Izabal. In the second week of June, workers at the Solway-CGN mine took part in intimidatory actions against those […]

[Public Statement] We Support the Call in favor of the United Nations Global Humanitarian Agreement and UN Mission in Colombia’s Call for a Ceasefire and We Ask for the Protection of the Lives of All Vulnerable People amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Bogota, April 3, 2020. The International Civil Society Organizations that subscribe to this communiqué identify in the unilateral ceasefire ordered by the ELN starting on April 1, 2020, and in the reactivation of the figure of the peace managers (gestores de Paz) by the government of Ivan Duque, a possibility to return to the path […]

Public Statement – International Civil Society Organisations in Alert for Assassinated Social Leaders and the Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Colombia

As International Organisation we express our profound concern regarding the severe deterioration of the armed conflict in Colombia, which has already in 2020, taken the lives of 23 people, including four women and two ex-combatants in the process of reincorporation. This serious humanitarian situation is putting the sustainability of the Colombian peace process in jeopardy. […]

EU-LAT: Protection International contributes to a set of recommendations to the EU and its Member States for the protection of women and men human rights defenders in Latin America

As a member of the EU-LAT, a pluralistic network of European movements and organizations promoting solidarity between the people of Latin America and Europe, Protection International contributed to the definition of a set of recommendations to the EU and its Member States for the protection of women and men human rights defenders in Latin America. […]

[Statement] 105 organizations from 25 countries co-sign statement on the assassination of Brazilian human rights defender Dilma Ferreira Silva

Statement on the Assassination of Dilma Ferreira Silva, leader of Brazil’s Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples (MAB) In the face of the brutal crime committed on March 22nd against a coordinator of the Movement of Dam-Affected Peoples in Brazil, the undersigned human rights and environmental organizations call on Brazilian authorities and multilateral organizations to ensure that […]

[Guatemala] Statement on the Consultation Process and Threats against Xinka Human Rights Defenders

Guatemala, 28 March de 2019 The below-signed international organizations express our grave concern regarding the consultation process with Xinka authorities and communities. During the last few months, representatives of the Xinka People have denounced, despite the Constitutional Court resolution 4785-2017, that they have not been allowed to fully participate in the process of defining the […]