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Iranian Women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr receives Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award today
Posted on 09/11/2009
Today Shadi Sadr, founder and director of the Iranian legal aid centre Raahi (on the road) in Tehran, has been awarded the prestigious Dutch Human Rights Tulip Award. Hivos has been cooperating with Raahi and Shadi Sadr from 2004 until 2007, when Raahi had to close its doors in a wave of repression against civil society activists who had contacts with the West. Shadi Sadr was repeatedly arrested and elaborately interrogated about her role as human rights defender/women’s rights activist and about the funding, which she received from the West for this work.
‘Responding to the crisis: beyond economics’
Posted on 21/10/2009
In the midst of the global financial crisis, what course should economics and development policies take? At the launch of the latest issue of Development (Vol 52 no3) on 29 October at the Church Centre, New York, Stephen Marglin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will be dissembling the current culture of economics.
Iranian human rights activist will receive Dutch Tulip Award on November 9, 2009
Posted on 23/10/2009
The Hague, October 23, 2009
Hivos is pleased to announce that Shadi Sadr, human rights activist, founder and director of women’s rights organisation Raahi in Tehran, will receive the Tulip Award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs form the Netherlands on November 9, 2009.
Hivos director Manuela Monteiro second on the list most powerful women in charities sector
Posted on 21/10/2009
Hivos director Manuela Monteiro is elected second on the list of the most powerful women in the charities sector in the Netherlands. This news was announced during the presentation of the Top 100 of most powerful women in The Netherlands by the famous dutch women’s magazine Opzij. This ranking was awarded because of Manuela Monteiro’s 'leadership role in the field of women's rights'. The first spot in the Top 100 is occupied by the president of the dutch trade union FNV, Agnes Jongerius.
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Indonesian earthquake: Welthungerhilfe provides 100,000 Euros of immediate aid
Posted on 06/10/2009
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