The Syrian journalist and human rights activist Mazen Darwish, president and founder of Hivos’ partner the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), has won the 2013 Bruno Kreisky Pr
The exhibit ‘Winter’ brings a combination of poetry and politics to the Central Asian Pavilion, while the project ‘Pirate Cinema’ is showing independent films by Hivos partners at an installation i
Syrian lawyer and human rights defender Khalil Matouq, who has defended hundreds of political prisoners, journalists and prisoners of conscience, was detained on 2 October 2012.
On 1 September 2013, Edwin Huizing will become the new executive director of Hivos. He will succeed Manuela Monteiro, who has been at the helm of the organisation for the past decade.
Civil society Principal Recipients who manage grants from the Global Fund in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean met for the first time in Mexico City from 22 to 24 May.
With deep sadness Hivos learned about the passing away of Shivananda Khan, founder of Naz Foundation International (NFI) and APCOM, the Asia-Pacific Coalition on male sexual health.
In more than 80 countries around the world, loving someone of the same sex is still considered illegal, at times involving lifetime imprisonment, and in nine countries it is even punishable by deat
Although youth make up a disproportionately high percentage of those infected by HIV/Aids worldwide, their perspectives and experiences regarding sexuality, sexual diversity and HIV/Aids remain lar
Update : On May 10 2013, thirty years after the original events, former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.
