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Fair pay, a thorny issue in flower farms
By Caroline Wahome Cynthia*(34) was overjoyed when she got a job at a flower farm in Limuru. She had been searching for over two years and chances kept getting slimmer as unemployment in Kenya continued to rise. There was a caveat though from her new employer: she had to find a place to leave her…
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Guerreras empoderadas: mujeres con VIH exigen sus derechos
“El VIH no nos está matando. Nos está matando el estigma, la discriminación y la violencia que vivimos cada una de las mujeres. Una mujer con VIH tiene una vida por delante, muchos logros, muchos objetivos y todo un camino por recorrer”. Estas palabras salen de la boca de Luz Lux, una mujer indígena guatemalteca…
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A New Year’s resolution: food choices for more than one reason in 2019.
A New Year is a great time to reflect, journal resolutions and hopefully plan for a new lifestyle. This usually checks in after an indulgent season of rest, making merry and re-connecting with friends and family. However as you reflect on a new season, do you think about your personal contribution to climate change? In…
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The difficult road toward the first gay marriage in Costa Rica
Please meet our colleague Sergio from Colombia. While traveling for work, he met Manuel, the love of his life. In 2016, when same-sex marriage in Colombia finally became possible, they got married. Both at the town hall and in the Anglican Church. But Sergio and Manuel live in Costa Rica, where same-sex marriage is still…
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El difícil camino hacia el primer matrimonio igualitario en Costa Rica
Les presentamos a nuestro colega Sergio de Colombia. Durante un viaje de trabajo conoció a Manuel, el amor de su vida. En 2016, cuando el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo finalmente se hizo posible en Colombia, se casaron, tanto por lo civil como por la iglesia anglicana. Sin embargo, Sergio y Manuel viven en…
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Q&A: Rescuing cañahua and reclaiming Bolivian knowledge of indigenous foods
Trigidia Jimenez Franco, is a Quechuan producer from Bolivia and a true believer in the special connection people have to the land they live on. A trained agronomist, a career typically reserved for men, she works with her husband and children fulfilling a dream she always held – to produce cañahua, an indigenous and highly nutritious grain.…
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A las mujeres latinoamericanas nos mueve nuestro anhelo de libertad
¿Se imaginan que nuestras ciudades fueran más humanas, seguras y sostenibles? ¿Y que eso fuera posible gracias al liderazgo empático, visionario y transformador de mujeres empresarias, académicas, técnicas y políticas? Pues aquí les contamos porqué este anhelo podría convertirse (¡muy pronto!) en un derecho disfrutado plenamente. Durante el pasado mes de octubre, la CEPAL fue…
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Creative hubs promoting diversity and inclusion
By Muhammed Ilham and Edrieno Sutarjadi (Hivos Hub Southeast Asia), and Myriam Vandenbroucke (Hivos Global) Since 2012, Hivos has worked with creative hubs and coworking spaces where artists, designers, activists and culture producers can safely work, meet and collaborate with like-minded individuals. In the past few years, we’ve shifted our focus from capital cities to supporting…
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Mobilizing against shrinking civic space in the Philippines
By Jean Enriquez, Executive Director, CATW-AP * Since August 2017, the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women – Asia Pacific (CATW-AP) has partnered with Voice in the Philippines and another grassroots organization, SENTRO (Center of United and Progressive Workers), to implement a project called: “Violence against Women and the War on Drugs”. This is a response…
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Activist Art and Free Expression
By Sally Akinyi and Sylvia Musalagani of Hivos East Africa Recently, civic space in East Africa has been fighting an uphill battle to survive. The arrest and torture of activists such as Bobi Wine in Uganda, sanctions against the media and threats to purge “gay people” in Tanzania, and Kenya’s crumbling media independence all point…
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Too much safety is not a thing!
“Cyber bullied on WhatsApp and Facebook.” “I have been blackmailed, beaten and forced to give out money after meeting a guy on a dating App.” “Being rejected in college because of my intersex condition.” “Our landlord forced us out of the house; he called on people to evict and remove our stuff from his house.”…
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Seis medidas para frenar la crisis de Centroamérica
En las imágenes que circulan hoy de la caravana migrante centroamericana, vimos un hombre joven con un bebé de meses en brazos, cruzando el río Suchiate, que divide Guatemala y México. La imagen de un futuro cargado en brazos en medio de una corriente que nos mueve los cimientos y que intenta frenar nuestro paso,…