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‘Aluta Continua’: the struggle for human rights continues
Today’s High Court ruling against the petitions seeking to decriminalize Section 162 (A, C) and 165 of the Kenyan Penal Code is a huge step backwards from the fulfilment of human rights for all. These sections – remnants of Kenya’s colonial-era laws – consider homosexual acts a felony punishable by up to 14 years of…
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New program “Work: No Child’s Business” launched to help eliminate child labor
Stop Child Labour (coordinated by Hivos), UNICEF Netherlands and Save the Children the Netherlands welcome a new opportunity to contribute to the elimination of child labor. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that this new and unique Alliance will receive €35 million to implement their new program “Work: No Child’s Business”. Their…
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New policy briefs on affordable and clean energy show progress must be accelerated to ‘leave no one behind’
Governments, businesses and civil society organizations have made tremendous strides in bringing affordable and clean energy to more people in recent years, but this progress has been largely uneven and must be accelerated in order to leave no one behind, says a new collection of policy briefs compiled by the multi-stakeholder SDG 7 Technical Advisory…
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Hivos and partners in Uganda to mark biodiversity day
Uganda is famous around the world for its richness in terms of biological diversity. Whether one is in Northern or Central Uganda, chances are you have access to a greater variety of food than your parents or grandparents once did. But even as the offerings become more diverse, the global diet as a whole –…
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Hivos’ implementation “exceeds Global Fund’s expectations”
The Hivos program “Women, Human Rights and HIV,” implemented in collaboration with ICW Latina, was positively rated with an ‘A1 performance,’ which is the highest possible rating given by its donor, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. During a three-year period, the program succeeded in helping women draw up a regional agenda…
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Flowers everywhere but not a rose for mom!
Sunday was Mother’s Day but all the mothers had precious little to celebrate despite horticulture being a high export, most vibrant and diverse sector in Zimbabwe’s agricultural industry.
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Farmworkers in Zimbabwe bemoan poverty wages
The average wage of a farm worker in the horticulture industry has fallen way below the poverty datum line, its value eroded by high inflation, an official of the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) has said.
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Religion: the unusual ally of LGBTI inclusion
Interview with Sheikh Ibrahim Washenga, an imam from Mombasa Kenya’s debate on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) people has been fueled by our historical penal code 162 that criminalizes homosexuality. While we could make history on May 24, 2019 by decriminalizing the penal code, justice towards LGBTI persons in Kenya still has a…
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Women farmworkers bear the brunt of casualization in Zimbabwe
Women constitute more than 50 percent of the workforce on farms in Zimbabwe but are employed mostly as casual labor, opening them to various forms of exploitation, a new research by the Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ) has revealed.
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Open calls for Tunisian artists and content creators
Are you a Tunisian artist or content creator? Are you passionate about storytelling and its ability to spark important conversations? Apply today to co-create an upcoming digital advocacy campaign with Hivos and Chouf which will address the issue of gender-based violence in Tunisia. Call for artists (pdf in English and French) For this campaign, we…
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Hivos hosts the RUAF Global Partnership Secretariat
A new collaboration to strengthen resilient urban food systems As of May 1, 2019, Hivos is the host of the Secretariat of the Global Partnership on Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Systems, RUAF. Hivos will join the RUAF Global Partnership, host its Secretariat, and take over part of the portfolio and staff of the Dutch-based…
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“You don’t need a title to be a leader”
Alphonsine Murebwayire lives in Kagitumba, Nyagatare district with her husband and six children. For the past two years she has been working in the shed department as a cleaner at Garden Fresh Rwanda – a farm in Nyagatare District, Eastern Province in Rwanda, which produces and exports fresh French beans. Currently, she is one of…
