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Meet Hivos at RightsCon
The 10th anniversary edition of RightsCon is taking place next week. The (online) event brings together business leaders, human rights defenders, government representatives, technologists, and journalists from around the world to tackle the most pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. Issues that are also high on Hivos’ change agenda. This year, Hivos…
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Grave concern over human rights violations in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
Hivos expresses our very deep concern over the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel. The latest outbreak of hostilities was triggered by efforts to forcibly displace Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. While Hivos does not have program and operational presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,…
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Hivos launches Consent to Access Campaign
Hivos through its Regional SRHR Fund, on Tuesday May 18th 2021 launched the Consent to Access Campaign (#Consent2Access). The Campaign is aimed at promoting adolescent access to Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) information and services. The campaign aims to achieve this through advocacy for improved laws, policies and practices on age of consent for adolescent access…
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Together we resist
Today is IDAHOT, the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Thirty-one years ago today, May 17 was chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness. At about the same time, Hivos started working with the LGBTIQ+ communities. Initially, we partnered with organizations to respond to the HIV/AIDS…
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IDAHOT 2021: economic hardship and funding gaps impacting the LGBTIQ+ community
For the second time, we celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia during the Covid-19 pandemic. As we reflected last year, the LGBTIQ+ community has been disproportionately impacted. Limited access to economic support programs and redirection of funds means that the longer this pandemic lasts, the harder it will be for the LGBTIQ+…
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IDAHOT 2021 – Together: Resisting, supporting and healing!
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted people’s lives socially and economically in a global challenge the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades. While many governments were swift to implement economic stimulus packages, lockdowns and curfews, marginalized groups such as LGBTIQ+ persons, women and sex workers found themselves at the margins of these responses and…
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Digital game ‘Amani, My Friend’ wins HIV and sexual health information competition
Amani, My Friend, the prototype of an interactive digital game, has won a friendly competition between master’s students studying media design at the University of Design and Applied Arts of Geneva (HEAD). The competition aimed to support the development of virtual tools which foster the exchange of information on HIV and sexual health among adolescent…
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Sheila Oparaocha awarded the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy’s Carnot Prize
Hivos is proud to announce that Sheila Oparaocha, International Coordinator and Program Manager of our ENERGIA program, has won the prestigious Sixth Annual Carnot Prize issued by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania for her distinguished contributions to energy policy. The Carnot Prize is named in memory of the French scientist and…
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Hivos-Triodos Fund moves forward with its own “Green New Deal”
Inspiring change by financing green, inclusive growth in emerging markets Triodos Investment Management and Hivos have signed a new five-year strategic agreement for Hivos-Triodos Fund, further strengthening the fund’s focus on financing successful renewable energy and sustainable agriculture businesses in developing countries. Green and inclusive Founded in 1994 by Triodos Bank and Hivos, Hivos-Triodos Fund…
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Hivos’ GreenWorks journey kicks off
Hivos’ new GreenWorks program aims to mitigate the impact of climate change through job creation and economic empowerment across North Africa.
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Enhancing inclusive access to SRHR information and services
HIAS Kenya conceptualized a project aimed at improving refugees’ access to high quality and safe SRH information and services.
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Moving to the South
“Decolonizing the development sector” started as a radical idea to rethink power structures in the social justice debate. It has now become an uncomfortable reality that many international NGOs and the philanthropy world have to grapple with. The term “decolonizing”, which also evokes historical struggles for independence, calls for structural change in more than just…
