El mundo celebra el aniversario de la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño adoptada el 20 de noviembre de 1959 por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. Aunque una de cada tres personas en todo el mundo es un menor, la...
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Empowering children and youth in Latin America and the Caribbean
The world celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Children’s Rights adopted on 20 November 1959 by the UN General Assembly. Although one in three people worldwide is a minor, most societies still undervalue the opinion of...
Violencia de género en el contexto Covid-19: buenas prácticas de la cooperación entre la UE y América Latina
Durante la pandemia COVID-19, la necesidad de intercambiar experiencias en la respuesta a las violencias de género en el actual contexto de aislamiento social se ha hecho evidente. Las instituciones gubernamentales de América...
Gender violence in the context of Covid-19: best practices from the EU-Latin America cooperation
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to share expertise on gender-based violence in the current context of social isolation has become apparent. Governmental institutions in Latin America and Europe reached out to the EUROsociAL...
Facing up to gender stereotypes in Nicaragua
Women in Nicaragua face high rates of gender-based violence, with 80% of all reported acts of sexual violence being committed against girls. Tackling the problems of gender, from violence to economic exclusion, must start with the...
Don’t Waste All That Waste!
Around 20 years ago, all Chile’s waste was dumped illegally. Today, about two-thirds of capital Santiago’s waste is processed at a plant outside the city, which recovers gas from the waste to generate electricity. It produces more...
Studies Show Benefits of Child Support Grants
Randomised control trials in South Africa have repeatedly shown that in-cash social transfers made to families with young children can have significant long-term positive impacts on the lives of those children and the future...
A Delegation Perspective on Implementing the GAP
One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?
City Partnerships Tackle Global Problems
The Dutch city of Utrecht wanted to plant a new forest as a contribution to the global environment. Trouble was, it didn’t have the space.
The Land-Drugs Nexus
"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...