by Tom Weerachat Starting in March through May 2022, around breakfast time in Haiti and Paraguay, the second cup of afternoon tea in Zimbabwe and Kenya, when people are wrapping up their work in Armenia, and right after dinner time in Indonesia and the Philippines, the new cohort of the…

by Anggita Indari Baca artikel ini dalam Bahasa Inggris. Terletak 30 menit hingga satu jam perjalanan laut dari Ambon, Ibukota Provinsi Maluku, Indonesia, Pulau Haruku bisa dibilang jauh dari hiruk-pikuk perkotaan. Tidak ada gedung mentereng dan lautan manusia memenuhi pusat perbelanjaan. Di pulau ini, siapapun dapat dengan mudah menjumpai masyarakat…

by Anggita Indari *This article is also available in Bahasa Indonesia. It takes a 30-minute boat ride from Ambon, the capital of Maluku Province, Indonesia, to reach Haruku Island. Upon arriving at the dock of Haruku, local people can easily be discovered selling sea catches and vegetables or fruits at…

By Vaishnavi Varadarajan Biba Devi Thapa Magar, an 83-year-old elder woman from the Magar Indigenous community at Rishing Paltyang in Tanahu district, shares how the land her community has lived on is sacred. Her ancestors were cremated here. Worrying about the future where she and her family may be displaced…

By Shoira Olimova, Medea Turashvili, Nina Lesikhina “Through information sharing, we are able to know basic understanding and potential impacts of a specific proposed project. It is also important to listen to the experiences of others to learn more about strategies and methods on improving our work.” — Umida Niyazova, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights The idea of organizing the joint regional meeting came spontaneously during one of the regular calls with Shoira Olimova and Hayk Abrahamyan of the International Accountability Project, Medea Turashvilli, CRE Regional Facilitator of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development, and Nina Lesikhina…

By International Accountability Project What comes to your mind when you hear the words research and communities? Too often, people associate communities as a mere object of research. The community can play a vital role in leading their own research. They may uncover things within their own during the process…

by Shoira Olimova I was excited to have a meeting with local partners and representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Tajikistan after two years of virtual meetings because of the COVID-19 restrictions. Partners from Khujand City, located at the northern part of Tajikistan, requested to organize an in person…

Por Alexandre Andrade Sampaio Com áreas de vegetação nativa a perder de vista, uma vibrante cena cultural, um dos parques tecnológicos e educacionais mais avançadas do mundo, a descrição de São José dos Campos, metrópole do Vale do Paraíba brasileiro, poderia fazer-nos pensar na cidade como o destino ideal para…

By Alexandre Andrade Sampaio With areas of native vegetation as far as the eye can see, a vibrant cultural scene, one of the most advanced technological and educational parks in the world, the description of São José dos Campos, metropolis of the Brazilian Paraíba Valley, could make us think of…