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Building on and expanding the Amazon Indigenous Health Route
Thanks to the financial support of The Rockefeller Foundation, this initiative will improve access to Covid-19 care for 339,000 inhabitants from 23 Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Ecuadorian, Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon. In the Amazon, COVID-19 represents an increasing threat. The lack of access to health services and the limited response to the…
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Hivos hands over its Southeast Asia activities
In a new step to further decentralize its operations, Hivos is announcing the launch of the Yayasan Humanis dan Inovasi Sosial. The yayasan (foundation in English) is a Jakarta-based Indonesian organization that will take over Hivos’ activities in Southeast Asia. The birth of the yayasan was spearheaded by several developments that came together over the…
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Carta del Fondo Mundial ante la situación de Proyecto VIH-CR
Ginebra, 19 de marzo de 2021 Sra. Tanja Lubbers Directora Regional HIVOS América Latina 300 este, 200 sur y 50 este del Centro Comercial Plaza Mayor En Avenida 3, calles 80-78ª Rohrmoser, Pavas San José Costa Rica RE: Verificación sobre alegación de nepotismo y conflicto de interés, marzo 2021 Estimada Sra. Lubbers: Reciba un cordial…
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Brazilian film “Valentina” wins Hivos Free to be Me Award
At the 2021 Pink Film Days festival, Hivos will present the Free to be me Award to “Valentina” – an impressive film from Brazil that powerfully portrays the importance of being – and embracing – oneself. This 2020 production by director Cássio Pereira dos Santos stands up for the rights of (young) transgender people. The…
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Encuentro para el intercambio de conocimientos técnicos entre Waoranis y el Pueblo Shuar Arutam
En el marco del programa Todos los Ojos en la Amazonía, técnicos, técnicas y dirigentes de la comunidad indígena del Pueblo Shuar Arutam (PSHA) visitaron las comunidades Waorani Meñepade y Konipade, los días 8, 9, 10 y 11 de marzo, para recibir un taller experiencial de intercambio de conocimientos con veedores técnicos de la Nacionalidad…
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Changing hearts and minds
Can you shift the way people think about gender and sexuality? More often than not, effective public campaigns play a crucial role in changing the way people think. Our new publication Changing Hearts and Minds shares how activists from countries as diverse as Poland, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Nepal, Zimbabwe and Southern Africa are doing incredible…
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It’s simple: #WeWomxnAboutIt
Our Manifesto ‘’Womxn. We are more. We work more. We carry more. We achieve more. We stand for more. We feel more. We. Women.More. Why?, you ask. Simple, Because we womxn about it.’’ For years, Hivos East Africa has been an ally of gender equality, inclusion and diversity; challenging harmful stereotypes against womxn in society…
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Comunicado oficial: Proyecto VIH-Costa Rica ha manejado fondos con transparencia y rendición de cuentas
En días recientes, se hizo pública, a través de un medio de comunicación, una denuncia en la que se cuestiona la transparencia en el manejo y uso de fondos del “Proyecto País: Costa Rica, un modelo sostenible de prevención combinada y atención a la población de hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y Trans femenina”…
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A voice for ALL women
Here we are. Another year, another International Women’s Day. You would think that by now organizations as focused as we are on women’s rights, women’s empowerment, and sexual rights and diversity, wouldn’t have that much to add to what has already been said and done. But our work for women “is never done.” It’s taken…
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Hivos launches new ways of working for creatives’ research
The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has posed great challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s daily lives and will have far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease. The creative economy is one of the sectors most at risk from the COVID-19 crisis. Any lasting damage to the creative sector will drastically undercut our culture,…
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Pueblo Shuar Arutam se capacita en monitoreo y mapeo comunitario
En el marco del programa Todos los Ojos en la Amazonía (TOA), miembros de la comunidad indígena del Pueblo Shuar Arutam se dieron cita en la ciudad de Sucúa, de la provincia Morona Santiago, Ecuador, para recibir un taller de capacitación en el adecuado uso de tecnología para el mapeo y monitoreo comunitario, facilitada por…
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Rescinding the Global Gag Rule: a new day for women’s rights
Hivos welcomes the decision of US President Joe Biden to rescind the Mexico City Policy, commonly known as the Global Gag Rule (GGR). It banned international NGOs from accessing USD 8.8 billion in aid meant for the health sector, upon which millions of women globally depend for reproductive health goods and services. While this repeal…
