Public space can become the ideal platform for building communities and engaging citizens to pursue ambitious collective goals. The project “Bailando con el Planeta” (dancing with the planet) uses playful, creative and original means to recover public spaces in Costa Rica and promote citizen’s awareness of the importance of generating alternative and renewable energy. This […]
Hay un movimiento emergente en América Latina en el que cada vez más los pueblos indígenas están utilizando los medios digitales como una forma de comunicarse y expresarse en su lengua materna. En el centro de estos esfuerzos están usuarios indígenas de internet que han aceptado la responsabilidad de asegurar que su lengua y […]
To promote women’s use and development of renewable energy technologies, Hivos and the Global Gender Bureau of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have launched the “Ingeniosas” (Ingenious Women) contest. This initiative seeks to recognize and expand the role of women in developing and implementing clean sustainable energy solutions in Latin America. “Ingeniosas” […]
The development of environmentally friendly, economically viable and socially just agricultural production is indeed possible. The project “Articulación Agroecológica” has demonstrated this in five municipalities in Cuba. This initiative, supported by the European Union, Hivos, Cosude and the Ministry of Agriculture of Cuba, started in 2011 with the aim of providing farmers alternatives to traditional […]
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) has selected Hivos as a preferred organisation to provide Technical Assistance (TA) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). TA aims to ensure that all those who are affected by the three diseases play a meaningful role in GFATM processes, and that these barriers are […]
“Freedom of words” is the slogan for the third edition of “Centroamérica cuenta”, a meeting of storytellers that started on May 18th in Nicaragua. This one week-long event, supported by Hivos, will gather together writers from Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Freedom of expression is the focus of this third edition. […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Albert Koenders, paid a working visit to Guatemala as part of his official visit to Latin America. At the request of the Dutch government, Hivos organized a dialogue between the authorities and representatives of civil society during Koenders’visit. The Minister’s official visit to Guatemala aimed to strengthen […]
Hivos has received an award for its contribution to the fight for LGBT rights in Bolivia. Hivos received this award on 29 April 2015 during the “Iguales ante la Ley” (Equal before the Law) Awards ceremony organized by Capacitiación y Derechos Ciudadanos, or Training and Citizen Rights (CDC in Spanish) in La Paz. The purpose […]
Over 200 people attended the “Hacia un consumo sano y nutritivo: Dietas sostenibles en Bolivia”, or “Moving toward healthy and nutritious consumption: Sustainable Diets in Bolivia” Forum, organized on 29 April 2015 by Hivos and the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE in Spanish). The event enjoyed the backing of the Ministry of Rural Development […]
On the evening of 2 May 2015, prominent Iraqi human rights activist Ammar Al Shahbander was killed during a terrorist attack in a lively commercial district in Baghdad. A car bomb exploded in the street targeting innocent people, our partner amongst them. Hivos is overwhelmed with grief and shocked by this tragedy. Ammar was the […]
Do you know why it’s better to consume green products? This is just one of the important questions about sustainable food answered by the “Yo como verde” (I eat green) project, an initiative promoted by Hivos in Costa Rica and Guatemala. “Yo como verde” is a digital information campaign aimed at promoting a culture of […]
Hivos joins their renewed call for the release of the ‘Duma Four’ To mark the 38th birthday of missing human rights defender and lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, head of the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria (VDC), winner of the 2011 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award of RAW in WAR (Reach […]