The rights of LGBTIQ+ people are under attack. Around the world, we see that hard-won gains are being rolled back. Queer people have never been as visible as today, but their visibility seems to come at a price. Hivos applauds the courage and determination of the global queer community.
Two years ago, Hivos started working with Kenyan media house Africa Uncensored. One of the documentaries that came out of this collaboration won one of the 2023 Annual Journalism Excellence Awards.
The interview below was written by Elsie Vermeer from the HUMAN broadcast organization. What does it mean to get your period in different parts of the world? That’s the question the television program Metropolis is asking in one of its episodes. Hivos, a partner of Metropolis, introduced the program’s producers to Celine (25), who works […]
On March 21, a strict anti-LGBTIQ+ law was passed in Uganda. Sex between two people of the same sex was already punished with life sentences; now it is also a crime to identify as LGBTIQ+. This worrying development is also affecting neighboring countries. The new law, Anti-homosexuality Bill, 2023, restricts the freedoms and rights of […]
As supporters and allies of LGBTIQ+ individuals and movements in East Africa, we stand in solidarity with the LGBTIQ+ population and civil society organizations in Uganda
Recently you read about the efforts of the Free to be Me partnership under Hivos’ leadership to queer the international advocacy space of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations in New York. Representatives from Hivos’ Free to Be Me and We Lead programs also organized several informative events, such […]
By Vincent Mogaka, Voices For Just Climate Action Project Officer The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that water scarcity in Africa affects one in three people. Water scarcity is killing livestock, drying up crops and driving families from their homes in search of water. There is a link between climate change and water scarcity. Climate […]
Starting March 22, the Pink Film Days festival (Roze Filmdagen) and Hivos are once again joining forces. The twelve-day festival screens LGBTIQ+ films, documentaries and shorts from all over the world in the Ketelhuis in Amsterdam. As in previous editions, we will present the Hivos Free to be Me Award to a film from a […]
Hivos helped organize the first ever pub quiz on Feminist Foreign Policy. This dynamic event generated in-depth conversations about the policy, and what it would look like to put feminist principles into practice.
The digital world should be a place to amplify the voices of women, girls and LGBTIQ+ individuals, but it increasingly allows them to be targeted by new online forms of gender-based harassment and violence.
Within the Voices for Just Climate Action program (VCA) framework, Hivos is hosting the first national workshop on “Climate Finance” in Tunisia. The workshop will take place on February 16, 2023 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Hammamet, Tunisia. A multi-stakeholder dialogue will be conducted to get meaningful feedback on climate finance mapping and strengthen […]
Our Resource of Open Minds program is specifically aimed at diversifying dialogue and debate through the disruptive power of art in order to bring about structural social change.