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Covid-19 lockdown and human dignity
Up to 25 million jobs could be lost worldwide at the heart of the COVID-19 crisis is a latest profound statistic from the ILO in these unprecedented times.
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First Aid Kit for digital emergencies
Around the world, people are being advised or obliged to work from home. Most of them rely on digital tools to do this and to communicate with others. But how to stay safe? The Digital First Aid Kit helps activists, human rights defenders and journalists handle common digital security attacks. The First Aid Kit is…
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Create your Kampala
Data art is a tremendous tool for freedom of expression. Pollicy, knows its power all too well particularly in shaping how governments interact with citizens. Delivery of essential social services in sub- Saharan Africa has faced significant challenges particularly when it comes to provision of clean water, sanitation, and health care amongst others. Citizens in…
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Ramifications of COVID-19 for workers at the beginning of the supply chain
As COVID-19 unfolds and drastically affects all aspects of our lives, it has brought to light longstanding problems in global supply chains. Low wages, reliance on casual labor, gender inequality, and a lack of social protection make people at the beginning of supply chains suffer the most. Now is the time to demonstrate global solidarity…
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Making civic space resilient
Cordaid and Hivos launch a new report about the resilience of civic actors In the new report Making civic space resilient, Cordaid and Hivos investigate how people around the world deal with the oppression of their desires and hopes, and how they are able to restore human dignity after it has been violated. Repression of…
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Transparency platform takes on mining tycoon’s toxic spill
Transparency platform takes on mining tycoon’s toxic spill March 23, 2020 It’s August 6, 2014. Residents in northern Mexico nearby the Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers notice the water is turning orange. But it isn’t until 24 hours later, when dozens of kilometers of river have turned the color of Fanta, that officials at Grupo México…
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Taboo-breaking film from Panama wins Hivos Free to be Me Award
Todos Cambiamos (“Everyone Changes”) is a bold film that breaks taboos about gender identity and acceptance in Panama’s macho culture. The film was going to be screened for the first time in the Netherlands at the Pink Film Days, and its director Arturo Montenegro was to receive the Hivos Free to be Me Award. Unfortunately,…
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Demystifying myths against open contracting
Contestation against the adoption of the open contracting approach in government have revolved around national security concerns in the procurement of military equipment citing ‘the contravention of confidentiality clauses and privacy rights’. In various jurisdictions these arguments for blanket non- disclosure have been discredited.
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Colourful Workplaces conference 2020 postponed
The world has changed dramatically in just a few months, and everyone has had to change along with it. Hivos always strives to continue to do our work through thick and thin, but we, too, are making adjustments. In view of the recent outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID19) in Kenya, the Kenyan government has issued…
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Ratify ILO Convention governments urged
Civil society organizations have intensified calls on African governments to ratify the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 190 on Violence and Harassment in the world of work. The CSOs want the member states to ratify the Convention to achieve the decent work agenda.
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Invest in culture shifts, not transparency
Change sometimes is in the hardware – it’s in the structures, frameworks and institutions. And we tend to focus largely on these shifts, so that culture shifts in good governance can go unrecognized, unnoticed.
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Political leadership is needed to champion nutrition
By Winifred Nambuusi Hivos together with Food Rights Alliance on March 6 held a dinner under the theme Let’s talk Nutrition with the aim of recognizing the role women play in the food system. The Chief Guest H.E Rhoda Tumusiime, former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture at the African Union Commission as well as…
