Region: Latin America
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El acuerdo
En diciembre del 2015 tuve la oportunidad de presenciar uno de los momentos más sublimes de mi vida: 195 países negociaron para finalmente llegar a un acuerdo climático durante la COP21. De pie, al final de la sala donde se llevaban a cabo las negociaciones, fui testigo del inicio del cierre de las reuniones técnicas…
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Un día para hacer historia
Dayana Hernández y Kendra Jordany, lideresas trans de Costa Rica y Honduras conmemoran el Día Internacional contra la Transfobia postulándose a un cargo público ¡por primera vez en la historia de sus países! Puede ver este artículo en inglés aquí.
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prueba
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Doña Ángela, the water lady
Lea la versión en español de este blog acá. It’s three in the morning, when most people are asleep and haven’t even started thinking about the chores of the day, let alone water, a resource many of us take for granted. But not doña Ángela*. She is already up and making her way to Matagalpa,…
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Doña Ángela, la señora del agua
Read this blog post in English. Son las tres de la mañana, casi todo mundo duerme y no han ni siquiera empezado a pensar en las tareas del día, mucho menos en el agua, un recurso que muchos y muchas tomamos por sentado. Doña Ángela es la excepción. Ella ya está lista y en camino…
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Transvida (español)
Fotografías de Ángel Damián Reyes / Texto de Ángel Damián Reyes y Alonso Jiménez Read this post in English. El Proyecto VIH Costa Rica en el que participamos no sería el mismo sin Transvida, organización socia. Sus propuestas para la atención y contención del VIH en mujeres trans representan toda una experiencia de innovación, creatividad…
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An event that shall never be repeated
On March 8, while the world celebrated women’s historical fight for equality and equity on International Women’s Day, almost 60 Guatemalan girls were locked up and burned alive inside the “Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción” shelter, located in San José Pinula, Guatemala. At present, 40 have died, many others remain missing and some survived.…
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Calling all open contracting champions and innovators…
Open contracting 2017: #OCGlobal17, Amsterdam, 28 & 29 November Open contracting is one of the most exciting areas in modernizing government, fighting corruption, reforming markets and fostering business innovation and entrepreneurship. Better, smarter and fairer government contracting will have a huge impact on citizens’ lives everywhere. Hivos and ARTICLE 19, together with The B team,…
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Transvida
Photographs by Ángel Damián Reyes / Text by Ángel Damián Reyes and Alonso Jiménez The HIV Costa Rica project we participate in wouldn’t be the same without Transvida (Translife in English), our partner organization. Their methods of HIV care and prevention in trans women represent a new frontier in terms of innovation and creativity, as…
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Bottom-up innovation
Address by Edwin Huizing at the City Maker session organised by Hivos during the SIX Wayfinder conference on social innovation in London on 16 and 17 February. Today we celebrate the social innovation field’s tenth birthday. To our mind this should start with celebrating the ingenuity and inspiration of people to face power in creative ways.…
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Nexos a light for human rights
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can.” Peter-Derrek Hof, Dutch Ambassador for Central America, repeated these words by Martin Luther King to officially launch Nexos, a Human Rights Program in Central America implemented by Hivos for the Embassy of the Netherlands. The initiative aims at raising awareness, strengthening the rule of law, increasing general…
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Hivos HIV Bolivia project is extended and receives top rating
Hivos’ HIV Bolivia Project has received a 2018 extension and a top A1 rating given by its donor, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in their most recent evaluation. This is not the first time that the project has received the Global Fund A1 rating. The same project has been receiving the…