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  1. The Netherlands provides equipment and parts to Ukraine to help repair its energy infrastructure

    This winter the Netherlands is supporting Ukraine by providing a shipment of materials so the country can repair crucial energy ...

    News item | 08-12-2022 | 18:02

  2. Viasna Human Rights Center wins Human Rights Tulip 2022

    The Human Rights Tulip for 2022 is awarded to the Viasna Human Rights Center in Belarus. Minister of Foreign Affairs Wopke ...

    News item | 08-12-2022 | 17:24

  3. Human Rights Tulip 2022: top three candidates

    There are three candidates left in the running for the Human Rights Tulip 2022, the prize awarded by the Ministry of Foreign ...

    News item | 28-11-2022 | 09:36

  4. Ed Nijpels appointed as climate table quartermaster Bonaire

    Climate change has global effects, but certainly in the Caribbean Netherlands the impact of climate change is large and directly ...

    News item | 23-11-2022 | 14:02

  5. Feminist foreign policy explained

    The Netherlands is keen to reduce inequality and to achieve gender and LBGTIQ+ equality all over the world, so the Ministry of ...

    News item | 18-11-2022 | 13:13

  6. Take part in Human Rights Week

    In 2022 a new Dutch initiative is being launched: Human Rights Week will take place from 5 to 10 December. What are human rights? ...

    News item | 08-11-2022 | 09:48

  7. After 40 years ‘hope for justice’ for murdered IKON journalists

    Forty years after the murder of four Dutch journalists in El Salvador, there was a breakthrough in the case on October 16th: two ...

    News item | 27-10-2022 | 11:21

  8. Human Rights Tulip 2022: this is the shortlist

    Each year the Ministry of Foreign Affairs awards a human rights defender somewhere in the world a prize: the Human Rights Tulip. ...

    News item | 21-10-2022 | 09:27

  9. Coalition of European countries fighting organised crime

    The coalition of European countries fighting serious and organised crime is being strengthened. The move was agreed today in ...

    News item | 07-10-2022 | 15:30

  10. Dutch expertise on EV charging goes to California

    Charging electric cars needs to become easier, safer and smarter. Dutch environment minister Vivianne Heijnen and Yana Garcia ...

    News item | 06-09-2022 | 20:30