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The 2023-2025 global super election cycle has been marred repeatedly by post #electoralviolence. The #EUSEE and partners invite you to a webinar on election-related violence and its implications for the enabling environment for #civilsociety in 2026. Register here: qrco.de/bgVDOk

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.

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 👇🏽
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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 👇

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

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 👇🏽
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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.

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

🚨 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

why would anyone anywhere in the world trust anything one american government promises when this can happen to them a few years later

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:

The power of queer community: When aid is cut, we don’t disappear. We organize US funding withdrawal has had global impact

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...

Over 100,000 people in The Hague drawing the red line 🍉

Free Palestine, end the genocide!

De straten kleurden rood in Den Haag. Zou Schoof het gemerkt hebben? #RodeLijn

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

🌈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.

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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.

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

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.”

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...

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.

@savethechildren.nl @therightsforum.bsky.social @degoedezaak.bsky.social @somoamsterdam.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.

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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...

"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

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?

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe DNA-testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. Here’s what that means for your genetic data.

Genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, which means the future of the company’s vast trove of customer data is unknown. What does that mean for your data? My story with @lhn.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Civil Society Organisations Face Backlash After Trump, Musk Link USAID Grantees To ‘Terrorism’ - Health Policy Watch Civil society organisations (CSOs) globally face investigation, restrictions and harassment in dozens of countries after US President Donald Trump claimed

Civil society organisations worldwide face political backlash after #Trump & #Musk link #USAID grantees to 'terrorism', with investigations, crackdowns – as well as loss of income, according to survey by EU SEE ⬇️
@hivos.bsky.social
@hrw.org

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Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalists Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabat in Gaza.

In 2024, Palestinians accounted for nearly 2/3rds of all journalists killed worldwide, some of them deliberately killed by Israeli forces, per the Committee to Protect Journalists. This is no accident.