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EXPO Live Fund: $100 million for innovation
The World Expo 2020 Dubai has allocated 100 million dollar in an innovation and partnership programme called: Expo Live ...
ILO, the Netherlands to take joint action against child labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Netherlands intend to work together to help eliminate child labour in Africa, ...
Minister Kaag at UN meeting in New York: Education is the best strategy
Speaking to the United Nations in New York, foreign trade and development minister Sigrid Kaag has announced that the Netherlands ...
Dutch anti-terrorist technology goes to the UN
With the help of Dutch technology the member states of the United Nations can now track the travel movements of terrorists. ...
Dutch and Australian Foreign Ministers meet to discuss state responsibility of Russia in downing of MH17
Foreign minister Stef Blok and his Australian counterpart Marise Payne have spoken in New York about their countries’ joint ...
International cooperation for peace, security and prosperity
Working for peace, security and sustainable development: this is the core of the Netherlands’ integrated foreign policy for the ...
Netherlands’ preparations for Brexit in the spotlight during EU visit
On 29 March 2019 – in 200 days’ time – the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Brexit can have major consequences for ...
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert to become UN envoy for Iraq
The United Nations has today announced that Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert is to become the new Special Representative of the United ...
High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to receive 2018 Human Rights Tulip
2018 Human Rights Tulip
Extra investment to fight AIDS
Over 15,000 politicians, policymakers, activists, researchers and advocates from more than 160 countries will be in Amsterdam ...