20, December 2018 Ms. E. Tendayi Achiume Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland SUBJECT: visit to Morocco to assess racism, discrimination Dear Ms. Tendayi Achiume, On December 12th 2018 the United Nations Human Rights Consul (UNHRC) announced your visit to Morocco, […]
By Lisanne Boersma On Friday the 16th of October, we had the honour to host an evening with the former prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi about the future of Sudan. He has been elected prime minister of Sudan twice, and has been the only democratically elected leader of Sudan so far. Currently he is the leader […]
Door Ewoud Butter op 18-11-2018 | 11:30 Sinds eind jaren ’80 wordt er met regelmaat onderzoek gedaan naar de wijze waarop Nederlandse media berichten over moslims. Ewoud Butter maakte een overzicht. Deel I. Tot aan het begin van de jaren ’90 was de Turkse Nederlander Mehmet Pamuk ongetwijfeld de bekendste Nederlandse moslim. De immer in archaïsch Nederlands formulerende Pamuk was geen bestaand persoon, […]
By Alena Kahle It’s a Wednesday evening, and a group of Master’s students from The Hague’s International Institute for Social Sciences has organized a get together at The Bookstore Café. Chairs are pulled together under the books stacked up to the ceiling, and a crowd pours in. Indian students are chatting with their fellow batchmates, and […]
After the death of two students in a road accident in late July 2018, protests sparked in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, with tens out thousands of students not only protesting the lack of government effort to prevent thousands of road deaths a year (1), but for the government to take responsibility for more burning issues (1). […]
Africa Group from the United Nations on Human Rights wrote a draft resolution on technical assistance and capacity-building in Sudan. The following are some key observations and recommendations, written by Sudan Call, a group consist of political parties civil society organizations. The Hague Peace Projects shares their observation because we critically follow the updates on Sudan, and […]
On the 21ste of September, International Peace Day, the umbrella organisation Vredesmissies Zonder Wapens, will organize a peace symposium where they honour three young peace activists as peaceheroes (vredeshelden). One of them is our very own colleage Tayfun Balçik! We are very proud with this nomination! If you want to be part of this historical […]
By Akayezu Muhumuza Valentin Rwandan Human Rights Activist On 14th September 2018, the Rwandan Ministers’ Cabinet approved President Kagame’s decision to grant a presidential pardon to the political prisoner Umuhoza Ingabire Victoire. In 2010, Ingabire was nominated by her political party FDU-INKINGi to run in the 2010 presidential elections. At this time, her arrival in […]
This is the third and last part of the report, commenting on the 5 days gathering in Caux, where a group of 15 Armenians, Kurds and Turks from Lebanon, The Netherlands and Armenia participated in the Initiatives of Change (IoC) program ‘Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business”. Read here part 1 and part 2. Day 4 – Personal […]
From the 23rd until 27 july a group of 15 Armenians, Kurds and Turks from Lebanon, The Netherlands and Armenia participated in the Initiatives of Change (IoC) program ‘Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business (AEUB) at Caux Palace (Switzerland). Read here part 1 of the Report! Day 3 – Presentation The Hague Peace Projects and next steps In […]
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