Peace Brigades International UK

🌎 In November, Peace Brigades International UK and Forest Peoples Programme welcomed a cross-regional group of human rights defenders, Indigenous and Afro-descendent leaders and community representatives to the UK to identify what stakeholders in the UK can do to support them in the protection of their land, environment and livelihoods 🌏 👉 Take a look at what we got up to here: http://bit.ly/4eXxx7t #BizHumanRights #HumanRightsDefenders Corporate Justice Coalition Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Peace Brigades International

📢 Your Big Give Pushes for a #UK Law on Corporate Accountability! From December 3rd-10th we are taking part in the #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge to ensure that we can continue our important work on #corporateaccountability: https://lnkd.in/dmNqp2wA Our latest report, "The Case for Change: Why Human Rights Defenders Need a UK Law on Mandatory Due Diligence," exposes six devastating case studies from #Colombia, #Honduras, #Indonesia, and #Mexico. These case studies highlight the troubling links between UK business operations and environmental and human rights violations in each of these countries: https://lnkd.in/dFqzrN-T We must ensure that #Indigenous leaders, #tradeunionists, and #environmental activists are recognised as vital agents of change in their communities—natural allies to the UK’s foreign policy goals. Your Big Give can help support the creation of a UK law on mandatory due diligence that holds companies accountable, ending the heartbreaking negative impacts on defenders, their communities, and their ancestral lands. When you donate to PBI UK, you are joining a movement to ensure that UK-based companies respect human rights and environmental standards wherever they operate. Together, we can build a future where people come before profits and defenders of justice can work safely. 💪 Make your Big Give today, and let’s stand together in solidarity with those who fight for human and environmental rights: https://lnkd.in/ekcKa8b5 #HumanRights #BizHumRights #EnvironmentalRights #PBIacompaña

🌟 The 29th November marks International #WomenHumanRightsDefenders Day Today we recognise the incredible work of woman human rights defenders around the world as key agents of positive change, who often face grave risks, including sexual harassment and gender-based violence. 👇 Read about the stories of women human rights defenders that PBI has supported below #16DaysOfActivism

"Those standing up to corporate abuse often pay the ultimate price." New report from Peace Brigades International looks at reprisals against human rights defenders who stood up to UK-linked business and makes the case for a UK law on mandatory due diligence. "To ensure the sustainability of UK business and position the UK as a leader in corporate accountability, the Government should act now and commit to a Business, Human Rights and Environment Act." Read the report: https://lnkd.in/dFqzrN-T #BHREA #humanrights #duediligence #bizhumanrights

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre report on the new @PBIUK investigation demonstrating links between UK businesses and attacks on defenders. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/erUqCQUg #bizhumanrights

🌎 Indigenous leaders travel to UK from Peru to draw attention to oil damage and banking. 🇲🇽 Land rights defender from the El Bajío Ejido in Mexico calls out UK company for behaviour in Mexico compared to acting as "a good corporate citizen" in the UK. https://lnkd.in/dAG83f9G

🗣️Today, a cross-regional group of #HumanRightsDefenders and community representatives met with parliamentarians and civil servants to lay out what laws and actions they want to see from the UK government to help them safely defend their land & the environment. 🧵  📢 We delivered copies of our new report documenting links between British businesses & attacks on human rights defenders, making the case for a new UK law on mandatory due diligence, so that corporations prevent violations & are held to account when they occur. #bizhumanrights 🇲🇽 Jesus Javier Thomas described El Bajío, #Mexico, where defenders were murdered after protesting illegal mining: “This is a problem between a British company and a Mexican community. We need international pressure to get the response we’ve been denied. The UK is key”. 🇮🇩 From Indonesia, Norman Jiwan: “We need strong UK #CorporateAccountability legislation that covers human rights, environment, Indigenous people and deforestation” 🇮🇩 Tigor Gemdita: “It needs to regulate supply chains and respect collective rights” 📣 Pamuk Teófilo Kukush Paati & Tsanim Evaristo Wajai Asamat of the Wampis nation discussed their experience of UK banks investing without effective due diligence: environmental devastation and escalating violence fuelled by palm oil cultivation on #Indigenous lands. 🔊 Other brave human rights defenders shared their testimony. They cannot be named because of the risks they run in telling their stories and campaigning for change. ✊ We stand in solidarity with the communities defending their territory and our planet in the face of threats. We stand for #CorporateAccountability. 👇 Read “The Case for Change: Why human rights defenders need a UK law on mandatory due diligence”: https://lnkd.in/dFqzrN-T

Peace Brigades International's UK Director Ben Leather was interviewed on Monocle Radio's The Globalist today about our report "The Case for Change", showing links between UK companies, environmental devastation and attacks on rights activists calling for law to ensure effective due diligence. https://lnkd.in/gwuVED-Q #Humanrights #duediligence #environment #activists #defenders #Monocle #Radio

"Human rights activists face reprisals for opposing extractive industries" - The Guardian reports on our new investigation, as we head to Parliament with environmental defenders to discuss why we need a UK law on mandatory due diligence https://lnkd.in/eHZ8TjMH

🍃 Our new report, “The Case for Change: Why human rights defenders need a UK law on mandatory due diligence”, highlights six powerful case studies from #Colombia, #Honduras, #Indonesia & #Mexico. Human rights defenders speaking out against corporate abuse shouldn’t face violence and intimidation. Their communities deserve access to justice. These accounts reveal human rights and environmental violations linked to UK businesses. In each case, those who raised concerns were attacked - facing threats and violence. Some were even murdered. Yet accountability for these injustices remains glaringly absent. Human rights defenders like Indigenous leaders, trade unionists and environmental activists are agents for change in their communities and potential allies for many of the UK’s foreign policy goals. They are being smeared, imprisoned and killed as a consequence for doing the right thing. This report underscores an urgent need for a UK law on mandatory business due diligence. We can’t ignore the role that UK-linked businesses should play in preventing these violations. It’s time to protect the defenders who safeguard communities and ecosystems from corporate harm. Stand with us in calling for accountability and safety for those on the frontlines. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dMPktDqV   #bizhumanrights #HRDs