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.”
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hivos is very happy to announce that projects of two of our Open Contracting program partners in Guatemala have won the CivicTech4Democracy 2018 global competition. The projects are initiatives of journalism platforms Laboratorio de Medios (Media Laboratory) and Plaza Pública (Public Square), which have had great impact in Guatemala in recent years by playing a key role in the fight against […]
By Paulo Villalobos Saborío for the Costa Rican news platform ameliarueda.com* In Latin America, the Dutch NGO Hivos supports causes related to human rights, protection of the environment and independent journalism. This year, Hivos is marking 50 years of support for the “sparks of change” ignited by frontrunners who have gained the confidence needed to generate […]
As part of the celebration of its 50th anniversary, Hivos will sign several conventions and begin its work with its first major donor. The activities will focus on traveling to the past, visiting the present and projecting the future. The organization will begin the trend analysis to project future scenarios. The humanistic social innovation organization […]
Opinión de Edwin Huizing. El conflicto en Nicaragua se está saliendo de control. Se necesita urgentemente una acción política internacional para evitar una mayor escalada, sostiene el director de Hivos, Edwin Huizing. Los Países Bajos deben tomar la iniciativa. Tan sólo 40 años después de que Daniel Ortega liderara a los sandinistas para derrocar la […]
Our HIV/AIDS work in Costa Rica
“I feel so lucky and happy for having the strength and courage to say: I am a transgender woman. I am worth a lot. I deserve respect.
The conflict in Nicaragua is spiraling out of control. International political action is urgently needed to prevent further escalation, argues Hivos Director Edwin Huizing. And the Netherlands must take the lead. Just 40 years after the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza dictatorship, a severe crisis grips Nicaragua. Most Nicaraguans want nothing more than to see President […]
“This is the suit I wore when I married my wife back in 2004, in the Netherlands. It‘s not normal that here I have to write a note asking for permission for my wife to pick up our kids from school when I’m away,” revealed Myrtille Danse, director of Hivos Latin America and the Caribbean, when she […]