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Alliance Sud InfoDoc takes the stronger presence of civil society as an opportunity to discuss the history and present of activism in Switzerland with representatives of different generations. Equal rights, freedom for young people, social justice: what has been achieved in recent decades? Where can we still see challenges?

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The Latin America Roundtable, organised by the Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding KOFF together with the working group Switzerland Colombia (ask!) and Peace Brigades International Switzerland (PBI) , offers the opportunity to meet four committed women from Colombia and Honduras and to exchange views on the current situation in the two countries, on the work and challenges of local civil society organisations and their demands, fears and hopes.

German Invitation

Civil society engagement in conflict-affected states is a foreign policy priority for the Swiss FDFA, the European Union, and the United Nations. However, the space for civil society organizations to operate is affected by the modes of governance of the state in which they work.

English Invitation

President Duque's government poses major challenges to Colombian civil society and human rights organizations.

German Invitation

This roundtable, jointly organised with Peace Brigades International (PBI), is an opportunity to learn more about and discuss the challenges faced by indigenous communities in Guatemala ranging from economic pressure to questions of gender equity and the work of human rights defenders.

German invitation

Human rights, peace and development in Guatemala and Honduras: What’s the role of Swiss actors? Discussion and exchange with the Swiss ambassador for Guatemala and Honduras, Hans-Ruedi Bortis.

German Invitation

In March 2016, Berta Cáceres, environmental activist and fighter for the rights of Honduran indigenous people, was shot dead in her home. With her organisation COPINH, she fought against a dam project. In this roundtable we discuss murder and impunity in Honduras.

German invitation / Spanish invitation

Can and should we simply blank out our emotions in certain contexts? Key figures from the world of international collaboration and peacebuilding increasingly agree about one thing: at times of social change, the feelings of those affected cannot be ignored. And this is precisely where the psychosocial approach comes in, which is concerned with the emotional sensitivities and social reality of individuals.

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swisspeace/KOFF produced in cooperation with its partners Honduras Forum Schweiz, Peace Brigades International Honduras and Plataforma contra la Impunidad, an audiovisual memory of the psychosocial learning community for human rights defenders, which took place in August 2017 in Honduras. The psychosocial learning community convened human rights defenders from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in a safe space to exchange their knowledge and experiences. The promoters of this initiative consider that the current situation in Honduras requires this message of solidarity and hope, in order to support human rights defenders, who continue their work, accepting high risks in a very critical context regarding the protection of rights.

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The Critical Reflection highlights specific challenges which human rights defenders in Nepal face. It also takes a step back and reflects on some common challenges that cut across different contexts.

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