Peace Brigades International-Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Peace Brigades International-Canada is a non-governmental organisation based in Ottawa, Canada working on human rights, peace & conflict.
Peace Brigades International-Canada (PBI Canada) is the Canadian country group of Peace Brigades International, an international non-governmental organisation founded in 1981. PBI protects human rights defenders through unarmed, non-violent protective accompaniment in areas of repression and conflict, at the request of local partners. PBI Canada, based in Ottawa, recruits volunteers, conducts political advocacy, research, communications and public education, and raises funds to sustain the international field projects. It engages Canadian parliamentarians, institutions and civil society, and runs campaigns on issues including land, environmental and Indigenous rights, and arms exports. PBI is non-partisan and non-violent, and does not direct the political strategies of the people it accompanies.
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