Alejandro Cerezo to receive peace prize in Germany

Alejandro Cerezo Contreras, member of the Cerezo Committee and coordinator of Urgent Action for Human Rights Defenders (ACUDDEH for its initials in Spanish), has been awarded the 2012 Aachen Peace Prize. The award recognises...

The human cost of advocating against environmental degradation and land rights violations - conference report

When subsistence farming and indigenous communities around the world find their human rights threatened by the interests of large-scale extractive, agribusiness and infrastructure projects, it is often human rights defenders...[more]

Event: Defending the environment - A criminal offence?

Reverend José Pilar Alvarez has been subjected to baseless prosecutions on several occasions due to his work supporting Guatemalan communities who are peacefully attempting to protect their land and environment. Join Reverend...

Panos interviews PBI: Mexican law aims to halt journalist killings

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist today. Under pressure to take action, on the 30th of April, Mexico’s Parliament unanimously passed a new law to protect human rights defenders and...[more]

Interview with journalist Manika Jha, Nepal [Article 19]

PBI accompanies journalist Manika Jha because of the threats she faces as she carried out her work. She writes on corruption, women’s rights and discrimination. [more]

World Press Freedom Day - and a new protection law in Mexico

On World Press Freedom Day, PBI welcomes the adoption by the Mexican Congress of the new Law to Protect Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. PBI was among 11 international human rights organisations that urged Mexico to...[more]

Mexican Senate approves proposed law to protect HRDs and journalists

On 24 April, the Mexican Senate approved a proposed law to establish a National Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists.

PBI, with eight other international human rights organisations wrote to...[more]