17 December 2014
Civil society strengthened by new EU anti-money laundering directive
Regional course on Advocacy and Policy Influencing for project monitoring partners
10 December 2014
From 17 until 19 November, the Netherlands Helsinki Committee organized a course on advocacy and policy influencing, which took place in Skopje, Macedonia.Minister Koenders meeting with human rights defenders ahead of OSCE Ministerial Council
04 December 2014
On the eve of the Ministerial Council meeting of the OSCE in Basel, Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders met with civil society human rights activists from a.o. Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.Dutch trainers introduce resocialization method for juveniles in prison in Kosovo
02 December 2014
The NHC communication team spoke with Patricia Meijer and Peggy Esajas of the Dutch youth penitentiary institution Teylingereind (Forensisch Centrum Teylingereind).EU-Russia civil society contacts to be further strengthened
01 December 2014
The potential of cooperation of independent civil society organisations across Europe needs to be exploited more fully.Tajikistan: Drop draft legislation restricting NGO access to funding
26 November 2014
Almost a hundred civil society groups called on the government of Tajikistan to drop new restrictive draft legislation on NGOs and to respect the right of NGOs to have unhindered access to funding for their work. Regional Conference “Access to the right to compensation for victims of human trafficking in the region”
20 November 2014
On 17 and 18 October, the regional Conference "Access to the right to compensation for victims of human trafficking in the region", was organized by ASTRA Anti-Trafficking Action from Serbia and its partners from the region, France and the Netherlands.Donations from NHC staff related to flooding in Bosnia-Herzegovina
31 October 2014
Continuous, heavy rainfall in May 2014 resulted in the worst floods ever in Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, causing several deaths and forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their home.
