“Remember to not forget”… Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana On April 9th, Hivos Central America released the film SietexGuatemala (Seven for Guatemala) in a packed theater at the Historic Centre of the City of Guatemala. The film is a series of short films by renowned filmmakers portraying […]
The open data philosophy is starting to become known in Bolivia through the DataBO project, the first data accelerator in the country. Supported by Hivos and Oxfam, this initiative is promoted by La Pública, a digital newspaper aimed at contributing to a culture of transparency and accountability. There are only a few initiatives in Bolivia […]
Hivos partner ASL 19 hosted the third annual Iran Cyber Dialogue (ICD) on 5 and 6 March in Valencia, Spain. The conference brought together government actors, civil society members, journalists and technical experts to discuss the state of Iran with respect to technological infrastructure, Internet policy, and human rights. Host ASL 19 (Article 19 in […]
The city of Cochabamba, in Bolivia, will host the II Encuentro Latinoamericano de Mujeres (Latin American Women’s Meeting.), ‘ELLA 2015’. This event first took place in 2014 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and was attended by more than 300 participants from 15 countries making it a historic first edition. From the 7th to the 10th of […]
More than 50 organizations from 15 Latin American countries give life to Facción, an independent communication network supported by Hivos. Facción reports on events that mainstream media mostly do not cover. The government repression of Mexican teachers, the violence against women promoted by Bolivian television and the protest against the imprisonment of women who have […]
Do you want your book to be published? Do you have a disruptive idea for a publishing start-up? Maybe it is a book idea that you believe readers all over the Middle East are waiting for? Or maybe it is a new app that allows for dynamic reading of Arabic eBooks? It could even be […]
A strong appeal for women’s involvement in peace negotiations in Iraq and Syria was made to Dutch Foreign Minister Koenders by two Hivos partners from the region on February 17, 2015. Suzan Aref from the Iraqi Women Empowerment Organization, together with a leading member of the Syrian Women’s Initiative for Peace and Democracy, discussed the […]
The Costa Rican digital newspaper AmeliaRueda.com officially launched DataBase during the Amelia Rueda radio program aired February 9th. DataBase is a platform combining data journalism with investigative journalism and tech development to make public information more accessible to citizens. This initiative supported by the Hivos Media & Accountability Program in Latin America, aims to promote […]
Detained Arbitrarily, and Tortured On the third anniversary of their arrest, Hivos joins 70 other human rights groups in urging the Syrian government to immediately free the prominent Syrian human rights defenders Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Gharir. The three men have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty on the basis of their human rights […]
The Hivos Media and Accountability Program has launched its second call for proposals open to civil society organizations (CSO), social change groups, media, research institutes, associations and private enterprises working on transparency and accountability issues in Latin America. Topics of the call include: transparency and accountability, democratic processes (e.g. election monitoring), citizen engagement, journalism (citizen […]
As the civil war in Syria rages on, millions of Syrians have lost their loved ones, home, income and security. In addition to these enormous challenges, many Syrian girls also face the danger of underage marriage. Many Syrian parents, often in a dire financial situation, feel forced to marry off their daughters, or see marriage […]
New technologies have the power to change lives in powerful and creative ways. Hivos supports social initiatives that employ ICT technologies for social good, such as the Jakarta Open Data Challenge (#HACKJAK) and the Cuyahuani 2.0 Ayamara hacker community project. This time, we have joined efforts with Digital Democracy to empower marginalized communities in the Amazon […]