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Peace Brigades International - Canada
427 Bloor St W, Suite 202 Toronto, ON, M5S 1X7 ph: 416-324-9737 fax: 416-324-9757 e-mail: pbican@web.ca web site: www.web.net/~pbican/ Contact: Rob Thompson
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Language of correspondence: English
Purpose: PBI's mandate is to: offer support and protective accompaniment to human rights defenders threatened with violence, use of direct observation to understand the situation in a country, report to the outside world a non-partisan analysis of the situation and encourage actions to reduce violence.
Scope of activities: Canada-wide
Year founded: 1981
Publishing:
Peace Brigades International, print newsletter, 3/year.
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Activities:
- Recruiting and training volunteers to act as international observers/accompaniers
- Accompanying those whose lives are threatened
- Providing international, non-partisan observers in situations of conflict and crisis
- Learning from the people we work with
- Reporting on our work to the international community
- Fostering reconciliation and dialogue among conflicting parties
- Offering education and training in non-violence
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