Region: Latin America
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A journey towards equal rights in the Caribbean
In 2009, four transgender persons in Guyana were arrested and fined for cross-dressing. In court the judge told them that they were confused about their sexuality. “Go and find Jesus”, was the advice. Now, after nine years of challenging the law and fighting the case, justice has finally been served: Guyana’s law that criminalizes cross-dressing…
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100% access to energy for Central America
Hivos has entered a regional alliance aimed at closing the energy access gap in Central America to achieve 100% coverage for the entire population. The agreement was signed Wednesday, December 12, at the III Energy Week organized by OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) in Montevideo. By signing this agreement, members of the alliance which includes…
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Alianza regional convertirá a Centroamérica en el primer territorio con 100% de cobertura a energía
El pasado miércoles 12 de diciembre en el marco de la III Semana de la Energía organizada por la OLADE (Organización Latinoamericana de Energía) en Montevideo, se firmó una alianza regional entre OLADE e Hivos, junto a CEPAL y ACCESE (Alianza Centroamericana para la Sostenibilidad Energética). Este acuerdo representa un primer paso para cumplir con el…
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Q&A: Rescuing cañahua and reclaiming Bolivian knowledge of indigenous foods
Trigidia Jimenez Franco, is a Quechuan producer from Bolivia and a true believer in the special connection people have to the land they live on. A trained agronomist, a career typically reserved for men, she works with her husband and children fulfilling a dream she always held – to produce cañahua, an indigenous and highly nutritious grain.…
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“We will only stop when we find them”
Protecting Mexican families looking for their missing loved ones “Our principle is and remains to bring missing people back home. Not because we want to do this work, but because we need to. If I find Milynali, I would be in peace and I would turn over my work and efforts to other people. Because…
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A las mujeres latinoamericanas nos mueve nuestro anhelo de libertad
¿Se imaginan que nuestras ciudades fueran más humanas, seguras y sostenibles? ¿Y que eso fuera posible gracias al liderazgo empático, visionario y transformador de mujeres empresarias, académicas, técnicas y políticas? Pues aquí les contamos porqué este anhelo podría convertirse (¡muy pronto!) en un derecho disfrutado plenamente. Durante el pasado mes de octubre, la CEPAL fue…
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Who owns identity?
Creating spaces of dignity “Our society wins if a boy or girl who feels attracted to the same sex, or wants to transform their gender, can do this without being humiliated, hurt or afraid and without thinking of death.”
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Seis medidas para frenar la crisis de Centroamérica
En las imágenes que circulan hoy de la caravana migrante centroamericana, vimos un hombre joven con un bebé de meses en brazos, cruzando el río Suchiate, que divide Guatemala y México. La imagen de un futuro cargado en brazos en medio de una corriente que nos mueve los cimientos y que intenta frenar nuestro paso,…
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Seis medidas para frenar la crisis de Centroamérica
En las imágenes que circulan hoy de la caravana migrante centroamericana, vimos un hombre joven con un bebé de meses en brazos, cruzando el río Suchiate, que divide Guatemala y México. La imagen de un futuro cargado en brazos en medio de una corriente que nos mueve los cimientos y que intenta frenar nuestro paso,…
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New evidence shows willful destruction of the Brazilian Amazon
Fighting illegal land grabs and government inaction with satellite data “I’m so scared I’m having difficulties sleeping,” said André Karipuna, a young indigenous community leader of a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon. According to satellite data from fly-overs commissioned by All Eyes on the Amazon in June and October 2018, his fears are very real. And…
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Food, sisterhood and dreams
Nicole Szucs of the Hivos local office in Bolivia tells us how the Food Change Lab kicked off At the end of September, I attended the first session of the Food Change Lab held in Bolivia by the Hivos and IIED Sustainable Diets for All program. The participants formed a patchwork quilt of stories of…
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Hivos expands SAFE coffee program to Mexico
Nearly 10,000 people in southern Mexico are to benefit from the new SAFE project “Transforming Mexican Coffee”. The SAFE Platform, coordinated by Hivos, is an alliance to support coffee and cacao smallholder farmers through climate-smart agricultural practices. For this project, Sustainable Harvest will join hands with World Coffee Research (WCR), the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture…