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RightsCon 2023: Es un buen momento para hablar de #DerechosDigitales
RightsCon es la conferencia global más importante en derechos digitales y por primera vez se está realizando en América Latina. Este espacio reúne a participantes de todo el mundo para dialogar desafíos y avances sobre los derechos humanos en internet. Desde Hivos estaremos presentando tres sesiones vínculadas a nuestras áreas de impacto. Te invitamos a…
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Brazil’s Senate should reject harmful Bill 490 on land and Indigenous rights
On May 30, 2023, Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved a bill that could be a death sentence for the Amazon and the Indigenous communities who protect it. In the coming days the bill will be put to a vote in the Senate. Hivos expresses its deepest concern about this piece of legislation and calls…
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A dark cloud hangs over Uganda: President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality law
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has assented to an anti-homosexuality law. The speaker of the country’s parliament made this announcement today, May 29, 2023. This comes as defiance to international pressure appealing to the President not to sign the law. Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, but the new law goes much further in targeting…
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Urban Futures unveils first lineup of transformative cities
Our new Urban Futures program is working at the intersection of urban food systems, youth well-being, and climate action. We’re happy to announce the program’s first five cities of operation.
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IDAHOBIT 2023: el poder de la perseverancia
Los derechos de las personas LGBTIQ+ están bajo ataque. En todo el mundo, vemos que las victorias obtenidas con tanto esfuerzo se están revirtiendo. Las personas queer nunca han sido tan visibles como hoy, pero su visibilidad parece tener un precio. Hoy, Hivos aplaude el coraje y la determinación de la comunidad queer mundial. Cada…
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IDAHOBIT 2023 – the power of perseverance
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.
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Documentary about climate refugees wins prestigious Kenyan journalism award
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.
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Why many women in Lebanon stay at home when they menstruate
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…
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Stand up for human rights in Uganda
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…
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We stand in solidarity with Uganda’s LGBTIQ+ community
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
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UN Commission on the Status of Women closes with renewed commitment to gender equality
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…
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Investments in water must tackle the threats of scarcity, quality and access
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…
