Siân
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Attn #COP30! 📢New research📰: Who pays the climate bills? Women and low-income families across the Global South are paying the real costs of the climate crisis; not governments, and not the corporations most responsible for emissions. Download here 👇🏽
hivos.org/new-research...
hivos.org/new-research...
New research: Who pays the climate bills?
Women across the Global South are paying the real costs of the climate crisis; not governments, and not the corporations most responsible for emissions.
hivos.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Attn #COP30! 📢New research📰: Who pays the climate bills? Women and low-income families across the Global South are paying the real costs of the climate crisis; not governments, and not the corporations most responsible for emissions. Download here 👇🏽
hivos.org/new-research...
hivos.org/new-research...
I wrote a short blog about the #F4FF conference in Madrid earlier this month and why we should all care about #FinancingFeministFutures
Read the article below 👇
Read the article below 👇
Traditional funding has failed the #feministmovement for long enough. As global politics tilt toward authoritarianism and the far right, we can’t waste any more time. We must rethink now how to finance feminist work before the tide turns even further. #F4FF #WalkingTheTalk hivos.org/blog/financi...
Financing for Feminist Futures: rethinking how we resource change
Financing for Feminist Futures: we must rethink now how to finance feminist work before the political tide turns even further to the right.
hivos.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I wrote a short blog about the #F4FF conference in Madrid earlier this month and why we should all care about #FinancingFeministFutures
Read the article below 👇
Read the article below 👇
In Madrid this week with #WalkingTheTalk as part of the #F4FF conference 📣
Together w/ feminists, activists, researchers, policymakers and government representatives from around the world 🌏
@hivos.bsky.social @equipop.bsky.social @restlessdevelopment.org
Together w/ feminists, activists, researchers, policymakers and government representatives from around the world 🌏
@hivos.bsky.social @equipop.bsky.social @restlessdevelopment.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In Madrid this week with #WalkingTheTalk as part of the #F4FF conference 📣
Together w/ feminists, activists, researchers, policymakers and government representatives from around the world 🌏
@hivos.bsky.social @equipop.bsky.social @restlessdevelopment.org
Together w/ feminists, activists, researchers, policymakers and government representatives from around the world 🌏
@hivos.bsky.social @equipop.bsky.social @restlessdevelopment.org
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On Oct. 5, we're drawing a new #RedLine in #Amsterdam with many other org's. Following the massive Red Line demonstrations in The Hague, we're once again calling on politicians: stop the genocide in Gaza! So listen up (general elections are on Oct 29 👇🏽
rightsforum-org.translate.goog/kom-naar-de-...
rightsforum-org.translate.goog/kom-naar-de-...
September 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
On Oct. 5, we're drawing a new #RedLine in #Amsterdam with many other org's. Following the massive Red Line demonstrations in The Hague, we're once again calling on politicians: stop the genocide in Gaza! So listen up (general elections are on Oct 29 👇🏽
rightsforum-org.translate.goog/kom-naar-de-...
rightsforum-org.translate.goog/kom-naar-de-...
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In Colombia - with the highest murder rate of #HRDs in the world - our Connect, Defend, Act! program counters attempts to restrict #civicspace by strengthening civil society on three key fronts: coalition building, knowledge production, and collective action. Find out more! hivos.org/a-collective...
A collective commitment to Afro-Colombian and Indigenous voices in Colombia
Afro-Colombian and Indigenous voices cannot simply be heard: they must be protagonists in building a just, secure, and pluralistic future.
hivos.org
August 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In Colombia - with the highest murder rate of #HRDs in the world - our Connect, Defend, Act! program counters attempts to restrict #civicspace by strengthening civil society on three key fronts: coalition building, knowledge production, and collective action. Find out more! hivos.org/a-collective...
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📢 #EUSEE has launched its first Country Focus Reports! 🔍 What are they? Comprehensive, evidence-based analyses of the enabling environment for #civilsociety in 86 countries to understand local realities and support effective, context-driven advocacy 👉🏽 eusee.hivos.org/launching-co...
Launching Country Focus Reports for an enabling environment for civil society - Eu SEE
By Bibbi Abruzzini and Clarisse Sih, Forus, EU SEE consortium partners The European Union System for an Enabling Environment for civil society (EU SEE) project announces the launch of its first batch...
eusee.hivos.org
August 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📢 #EUSEE has launched its first Country Focus Reports! 🔍 What are they? Comprehensive, evidence-based analyses of the enabling environment for #civilsociety in 86 countries to understand local realities and support effective, context-driven advocacy 👉🏽 eusee.hivos.org/launching-co...
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As #Brazil's conservative backlash gathers steam, Megafone Ativismo is supporting artists, activists & journalists – especially those who fight to save the #Amazon - with graffiti murals, annual activism awards, and workshops to empower local communities👉🏽 hivos.org/story/buildi...
Building a legacy of Amazonian climate activism - Hivos
This artivist coalition is creating recognition for Amazonian climate activists through art and awards that engage and inform Brazil's public.
hivos.org
July 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
As #Brazil's conservative backlash gathers steam, Megafone Ativismo is supporting artists, activists & journalists – especially those who fight to save the #Amazon - with graffiti murals, annual activism awards, and workshops to empower local communities👉🏽 hivos.org/story/buildi...
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🚨 New research alert 🚨
Feminist movements face rising funding cuts risking hard-won gains. Now is a critical moment to rethink how gender equality is financed.
Discover 13 bold research projects → bit.ly/3TewCai #FinanceFeministFuturesNow #WalkingTheTalk
Feminist movements face rising funding cuts risking hard-won gains. Now is a critical moment to rethink how gender equality is financed.
Discover 13 bold research projects → bit.ly/3TewCai #FinanceFeministFuturesNow #WalkingTheTalk
June 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨 New research alert 🚨
Feminist movements face rising funding cuts risking hard-won gains. Now is a critical moment to rethink how gender equality is financed.
Discover 13 bold research projects → bit.ly/3TewCai #FinanceFeministFuturesNow #WalkingTheTalk
Feminist movements face rising funding cuts risking hard-won gains. Now is a critical moment to rethink how gender equality is financed.
Discover 13 bold research projects → bit.ly/3TewCai #FinanceFeministFuturesNow #WalkingTheTalk
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why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later
An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.
June 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later
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Okay the areas where most of the people on Bluesky are (particularly Khan Younis) are being displaced- so I am going to start a master thread here of people who need help with evacuation. I’ll keep adding to it so check the bottom part too:
May 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Okay the areas where most of the people on Bluesky are (particularly Khan Younis) are being displaced- so I am going to start a master thread here of people who need help with evacuation. I’ll keep adding to it so check the bottom part too:
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The future of #LGBTIQ+ rights also depends on us. We all need to show up with our money, our voices, and our actions. Because when the going's rough, when aid is cut, we don’t disappear. We organize.✊🏽 #IDAHOBIT2025 Read our op-ed in @washblade.bsky.social 👇🏽
www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/13/t...
www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/13/t...
The power of queer community: When aid is cut, we don’t disappear. We organize
US funding withdrawal has had global impact
www.washingtonblade.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The future of #LGBTIQ+ rights also depends on us. We all need to show up with our money, our voices, and our actions. Because when the going's rough, when aid is cut, we don’t disappear. We organize.✊🏽 #IDAHOBIT2025 Read our op-ed in @washblade.bsky.social 👇🏽
www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/13/t...
www.washingtonblade.com/2025/05/13/t...
Over 100,000 people in The Hague drawing the red line 🍉
Free Palestine, end the genocide!
Free Palestine, end the genocide!
May 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Over 100,000 people in The Hague drawing the red line 🍉
Free Palestine, end the genocide!
Free Palestine, end the genocide!
🌈EU Citizens, please sign and share the petition to ban conversion therapy before May 17th!
📝We are 335,000 away from the threshold. Conversion therapy should be banned immediately.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
📝We are 335,000 away from the threshold. Conversion therapy should be banned immediately.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🌈EU Citizens, please sign and share the petition to ban conversion therapy before May 17th!
📝We are 335,000 away from the threshold. Conversion therapy should be banned immediately.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
📝We are 335,000 away from the threshold. Conversion therapy should be banned immediately.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...
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Thanks FO for this space. It is not just a space for @hivos.bsky.social but rather one to call for a collective effort. This is - as friends put it during the #PeoplePowerConference - no time for logos, halos, sylos, egos. Remember that united we stand, divided we beg
Civil Society Groups Face Rising Threats From Powerful Institutions
Lawsuits and funding cuts from governments such as the US and the EU, aimed at restricting free speech, are putting pressure on global democracy.
www.fairobserver.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thanks FO for this space. It is not just a space for @hivos.bsky.social but rather one to call for a collective effort. This is - as friends put it during the #PeoplePowerConference - no time for logos, halos, sylos, egos. Remember that united we stand, divided we beg
Terrifying updates from the US: buried on page 380 of the draft, is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to denounce any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” and strip it of its tax-exempt status.
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill Into the Tail End of Trump’s 389-Page Tax Plan
It would give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.”
theintercept.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Terrifying updates from the US: buried on page 380 of the draft, is a section that would enable Trump’s secretary of the Treasury to denounce any nonprofit as a “terrorist-supporting organization” and strip it of its tax-exempt status.
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
@theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2025/05/12/t...
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A few Palestinian YouTube channels have stopped because they were killed. These were kids. They sang songs & loved birds, and showed us the ocean. I'll never forget Medo, a young man growing a garden in the midst of a genocide. Israel killed him; he showed the world that Palestinians are human.
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
A few Palestinian YouTube channels have stopped because they were killed. These were kids. They sang songs & loved birds, and showed us the ocean. I'll never forget Medo, a young man growing a garden in the midst of a genocide. Israel killed him; he showed the world that Palestinians are human.
On May 18, we draw a red line in The Hague! 🍉
There is a genocide happening in Gaza. We demand that NL speak out and act when international law is violated and demand no Dutch complicity in Israel's war crimes.
www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn
@amnesty.org @azgnl.bsky.social @oxfamnovib.bsky.social
There is a genocide happening in Gaza. We demand that NL speak out and act when international law is violated and demand no Dutch complicity in Israel's war crimes.
www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn
@amnesty.org @azgnl.bsky.social @oxfamnovib.bsky.social
Meld je aan: trek de rode lijn | Oxfam Novib
Premier Schoof: als u geen rode lijn trekt, dan doen wij het! Kom met ons in actie op zondag 18 mei, trek de rode lijn en eis geen Nederlandse medeplichtigheid aan Israëls oorlogsmisdaden.
www.oxfamnovib.nl
May 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
On May 18, we draw a red line in The Hague! 🍉
There is a genocide happening in Gaza. We demand that NL speak out and act when international law is violated and demand no Dutch complicity in Israel's war crimes.
www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn
@amnesty.org @azgnl.bsky.social @oxfamnovib.bsky.social
There is a genocide happening in Gaza. We demand that NL speak out and act when international law is violated and demand no Dutch complicity in Israel's war crimes.
www.oxfamnovib.nl/rode-lijn
@amnesty.org @azgnl.bsky.social @oxfamnovib.bsky.social
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Facts and stories must go hand in hand. Data alone can inform, but stories can transform. Both are essential to combating anti-rights narratives and creating spaces for conversations, says Mary Kuira, @hivos.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/spea...
Speaking Out for SRHR: Why Lived Experiences Must Shape Policy and Practice
Advocacy for policies that protect and expand comprehensive sexuality education, safe abortion (where permitted), and youth-friendly SRHR services must not stop at international commitments. We must h...
www.ipsnews.net
May 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Sexual and reproductive health and rights: Facts and stories must go hand in hand. Data alone can inform, but stories can transform. Both are essential to combating anti-rights narratives and creating spaces for conversations, says Mary Kuira, @hivos.bsky.social www.ipsnews.net/2025/05/spea...
Exceptional reporting by @samtlevin.bsky.social for @theguardian.com about addiction treatment in Oregon.
Hopefully these programs and their success inspire others around the world. Focusing not just on addiction, but also the need for community and connection.
Hopefully these programs and their success inspire others around the world. Focusing not just on addiction, but also the need for community and connection.
How to help people with addictions on the streets? These Oregon programs have solutions
The state has one of the highest US rates of substance use disorders and ranks last for access to treatment. These initiatives are changing what rehab looks like
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Exceptional reporting by @samtlevin.bsky.social for @theguardian.com about addiction treatment in Oregon.
Hopefully these programs and their success inspire others around the world. Focusing not just on addiction, but also the need for community and connection.
Hopefully these programs and their success inspire others around the world. Focusing not just on addiction, but also the need for community and connection.
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Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel now seems intent on forcing them into a closed-off zone and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
There's a name for that, writes Meron Rapoport: a concentration camp.
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
@mekomit.bsky.social
There's a name for that, writes Meron Rapoport: a concentration camp.
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
@mekomit.bsky.social
Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
www.972mag.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel now seems intent on forcing them into a closed-off zone and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
There's a name for that, writes Meron Rapoport: a concentration camp.
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
@mekomit.bsky.social
There's a name for that, writes Meron Rapoport: a concentration camp.
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
@mekomit.bsky.social
"USAID freeze force civil society budgets to shrink by almost half"
@shafimusaddique.bsky.social for Alliance Magazine on the severe impact of the USAID funding freeze on CSOs around the world.
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/usaid-f...
#USAID #FundingFreeze #EUSEE
@shafimusaddique.bsky.social for Alliance Magazine on the severe impact of the USAID funding freeze on CSOs around the world.
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/usaid-f...
#USAID #FundingFreeze #EUSEE
USAID freeze force civil society budgets to shrink by almost half - Alliance magazine
A new report has laid bare the devastating ramifications of US Agency for International Development (USAID) cuts to civil society groups across the world, with an immediate financial strain and increa...
www.alliancemagazine.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"USAID freeze force civil society budgets to shrink by almost half"
@shafimusaddique.bsky.social for Alliance Magazine on the severe impact of the USAID funding freeze on CSOs around the world.
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/usaid-f...
#USAID #FundingFreeze #EUSEE
@shafimusaddique.bsky.social for Alliance Magazine on the severe impact of the USAID funding freeze on CSOs around the world.
www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/usaid-f...
#USAID #FundingFreeze #EUSEE
On top of all the other weird news lately, this report by @amitkatwala.bsky.social was excellent and terrifying.
Do I fully understand quantum computing? No!
Am I rightfully concerned? Absolutely!
@tzula.bsky.social any quantum computing insights you might have?
Do I fully understand quantum computing? No!
Am I rightfully concerned? Absolutely!
@tzula.bsky.social any quantum computing insights you might have?
One day soon at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets.
Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
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Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
wrd.cm/4iyJdjP
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
www.wired.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On top of all the other weird news lately, this report by @amitkatwala.bsky.social was excellent and terrifying.
Do I fully understand quantum computing? No!
Am I rightfully concerned? Absolutely!
@tzula.bsky.social any quantum computing insights you might have?
Do I fully understand quantum computing? No!
Am I rightfully concerned? Absolutely!
@tzula.bsky.social any quantum computing insights you might have?