Protection International – Mesoamerica

IPM supports human rights defenders (HRDs) through comprehensive protection programs. These programs enable defenders to build their capacities in order to manage their protection effectively, to allow those that protect them to fulfill their obligations, and to convince other individuals and institutions with a stake in the protection of human rights defenders to maximize their positive contribution. Protection International always works in partnership with defenders.

Protection International Mesoamerica (PI-Mesoamerica) coordinated - with partners - actions related to the impact on communities of development projects imposed without their free, prior and informed consent. They coordinate these actions within the framework of supporting human rights defenders in the construction of their security and protection strategies for the defense of territory, the fight against corruption, the exercise of freedom of expression and other related rights. An example of this type of articulation has been with the International Platform against Impunity, AIDA and the Plurinational Ancestral Government, around a complaint filed with the MICI by these three organizations, where PI-Mesoamerica has been the organisation accompanying on the ground the communities affected by a hydroelectric dam financed by IDB Invest and KFW, among others. PI Mesoamerica has also been part of the Qualified Observation Mission of the Berta Cáceres Case in Honduras, a case that involved the FMO.