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Fundación Avina strongly condemns the assassination of labor rights defenders in the garment industry in Honduras and Bangladesh.
Fundación Avina condemns the recent assassination of five labor rights defenders in the garment industry, four of them in Honduras and one in Bangladesh. We stand in solidarity with the victims, their families, the organizations they represent, and the labor and human rights movement as a whole.
Fundación Avina proudly announces the selection of the first eight solutions to receive funding for implementing tropical forest management practices in the Global South through our BASE initiative.
Launched at COP27 in November 2022, BASE (Building Approaches to fund local Solutions with climate Evidence) aims to overcome one of the barriers that local communities face in accessing climate finance, notably the challenge of developing a solid climate rational for proposals.
Guide for Climate Negotiators in three languages
All negotiations under the United Nations system, regardless of scope or space, share a few characteristics. They are, for the most part, participatory spaces in which any country can get involved and therefore offer an opportunity for any delegation to voice the position of the government they represent.
Avina Americas Announces Two New Members of its Board of Directors
Washington, D.C. – Avina Americas is pleased to welcome two new members to its Board of Directors, who will support the nonprofit’s work to connect and engage global actors in strategies that improve social, economic, and environmental resilience in Latin America and the global South.
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Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development
The world’s development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding challenges are vast and complex, with local implications. Equally, there are increasing opportunities to address and overcome these challenges, but success hinges upon enhanced collaboration and cooperation between donors and the people, institutions, and communities who address and are impacted by these challenges every day. In doing so, donors must acknowledge and respect the dignity, agency, priorities, knowledge, rights, and aspirations of those people and communities.
Fundación Avina strongly condemns the assassination of labor rights defenders in the garment industry in Honduras and Bangladesh.
Fundación Avina condemns the recent assassination of five labor rights defenders in the garment industry, four of them in Honduras and one in Bangladesh. We stand in solidarity with the victims, their families, the organizations they represent, and the labor and human rights movement as a whole.
Fundación Avina: In Defense of Democracy and Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil
Fundación Avina unequivocally condemns the terrorist attacks on the houses of the constitutional bodies of the Brazilian government that occurred on January 8, 2023 in the capital, Brasilia.
The Global South and the War in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has dashed our hopes that the pandemic showed us a new way to coexist. War once more. Putin's decisions must be unequivocally condemned, and NATO must also be held responsible for the fact that we are facing war once more.