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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…
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Pink Film Days and Hivos bring diversity to the big screen
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…
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The world’s first ever Feminist Foreign Policy pub quiz!
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.
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Feminist helplines standing up to gender-based violence online
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.
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Climate finance in Tunisia
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…
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Celebrating R.O.O.M: a unique program supporting free expression and artivism
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.
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Celebrating 15 years of responding to HIV in Bolivia with a Human Rights approach
In an emotional meeting, representatives of the sub-recipient organizations of our Bolivia HIV/AIDS Project, and others, met to celebrate more than fifteen years of successful work fighting HIV in Bolivia. Financed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the project sought to reduce new cases of HIV/AIDS, keeping the prevalence below 0.30%.…
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Greening youth employment in North Africa
For decades in North Africa, high youth unemployment and lack of financing for small and medium enterprises have been preventing young people from developing their full potential. At the same time, the increasingly tangible effects of climate change are having a devastating impact on the region’s economic development. Our GreenWorks Alliance, funded by the Dutch…
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Our Challenge Fund for a Just Transition is calling
At a time when underemployment, unemployment, and extreme vulnerability to climate change are gaining a stranglehold on North Africa, we cannot afford to ignore the huge unexploited potential of green Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs). Launched in November 2022, the Challenge Fund for a Just Transition (CFJT) builds on our GreenWorks Alliance, but is specifically…
