The 2011 Roland Berger Human Dignity Award has been granted to Mazen Darwish from Syria, a partner of Hivos. The other two winners of this year’s award were Radhia Nasrawi from Tunisia and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) from Egypt.
Posted on | 14/10/2011
Human Rights Defender Yevgeni Zhovtis from Kazakhstan, in prison since 2009, receives the “For Courage in the Fight For Freedom" Award 2011. The award is presented at the One World Kyrgyzstan international film festival in Bishkek, organized by Human Rights Centre ‘Citizens Against Corruption’, with support from Hivos. Zhovtis shares the award with Ales Byalyatski from Belarus, and Azimzhan Askarov from Kyrgyzstan, two other jailed human rights defenders.
Posted on | 04/10/2011
New floods have inundated Sindh, but the construction of more flood-resistant housing in other regions goes on. The well-established cooperation among the five members of Alliance2015 working in Pakistan speeds up the process of assisting the flood victims.
Posted on | 19/09/2011
In 2001, the global chocolate industry made a commitment to end the Worst Forms of Child Labor (WFCL) and Forced Adult Labor (FAL). This commitment has proved to be an empty promise: the cocoa sector has not been able to achieve any of the six goals they set themselves.