Who we protect

PBI accompanies a wide variety of threatened activists, including indigenous communities, environmental organisations, lawyers, women’s organisations, trades unions, human rights activists and relatives of the disappeared. 
The people PBI protects are courageous and committed. We are proud to be working alongside them to create space for peace and justice.

Featured group

PBI currently provides protective accompaniment to members of WALHI (Wahana Linkungan Hidup Indonesia, Friends of the Earth Indonesia), Indonesia’s largest non-government environmental organisation. WALHI works across Indonesia on a variety of issues including: forests, mining, fresh water management, pollution, foreign debt and corporate-driven globalisation, coasts and oceans, disaster management, national policy and law reform, and good governance.

WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia) requested protective accompaniment from PBI because their staff and staff from WALHI member-organisations had been receiving threats related to community advocacy in opposition of palm oil companies. The threats were coming from security forces and preman (hired thugs), both operating at the behest of palm oil companies

Groups we accompany by region

Rights Defenders in Colombia
Rights Defenders in Guatemala
Rights Defenders in Indonesia
Rights Defenders in Mexico
Rights Defenders in Nepal