“My father and Chico Mendes fought together for the defense of the Amazon. So, now it’s our turn.” Chico Mendes was a Brazilian rubber tapper, union leader and environmentalist who advocated for the rights of Indigenous peoples. In the 1970s and 1980s thousands of Brazilian rubber tappers resisted the violence of ranchers who stole lands […]
Indigenous leader Alexandra Narvaez has been fighting against the destruction of her habitat, the Ecuadorian Amazon for years. With support from our All Eyes on the Amazon program, she and her community achieved an unprecedented legal victory.
Hivos’ Libre de Ser project ran for three years, fatefully also in the middle of a pandemic. But despite the Covid-19 crisis, Libre de Ser became a refuge, a safe space to meet, and a source of hope and inspiration for LGBTIQ+ activists in Central America.
For the past five years, we have supported Indigenous Amazonians in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil in their fight against deforestation, environmental degradation and the violation of their rights.
Being visible, celebrating and loving openly, and being proud of who you are or whom you love in a conservative country like Guatemala, is complicated. This year Hivos launched the #OrgulloyDignaResistencia campaign as a way of reminding society of the right every person has to be, to love and to exist despite adversity and […]
When you put pink and light blue on a black background they get brighter. This is also the way Madame Bite, a trans woman, helps make the world a bit nicer through music.
On social media, a perfect space for even more visibility, Theo uses his Tik Tok account ‘the visibles’ to inform, educate and create reference points for others. “I didn’t realize how important being visible was until I started my transition.
Vale Cabrera was tricked into undergoing an “anti-gay” exorcism at the hands of people she trusted who thought she was possessed by demons. But by getting over this traumatic experience, she discovered her true self.
Leida is a representative of the Latin American Platform of Sex Workers (PLAPERTS) in Hivos’ Positive Leadership Alliance and Key Populations (ALEP) project. She is also an activist, mother and sex worker.
The Amazon rainforest indigenous people fight against alarming deforestation by extractive industries and anti-rights governments, also by using land monitoring,
The Dutch embassy in Costa Rica has won the first edition of the Human Rights Prize for Dutch Embassies. This biennial prize is awarded by Hivos, together with 17 other Dutch human rights and development organizations, to the Dutch embassy that has been most proactive, concrete and effective in defending and promoting human rights. On […]
Leonardo Ortega uses open data to defend the rights of the LGBITQ+ people in Guatemala. “This is how we demonstrate that violence against us exists and that we experience it.”