Blog post | 30-11-2020 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Thet Swe Win became known throughout Myanmar in 2006, when he stood up for a Muslim seller who was forced by monks to stop ...
In 2015 – at election time in Myanmar – Maung wrote a critical poem about the president and posted it on Facebook. Maung was ...
Blog post | 24-01-2020 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On Thursday 16 January 2020, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a public seminar on ‘Globalisation, ...
Blog post | 17-12-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Aram Hasan is a Dutch psychiatrist with lived experience from Syria. He studied medicine in Ukraine when, during a family visit, ...
Why do people afflicted by conflict or disaster need mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS)? For Peter Ventevogel, a ...
Blog post | 16-12-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
On November 22 Ambassador for Youth, Education and Work Tijmen Rooseboom launched, together with Fund Manager Palladium Europe, ...
Blog post | 06-11-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
As a seven-year-old boy in South Sudan, Majok Peter Awan was recruited by a rebel group. More than thirty years later, the former ...
Blog post | 30-10-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Curiosity drove clinical psychiatrist Mohamed Elshazly to work for relief agency Médecins Sans Frontières. He wanted to look at ...
Blog post | 28-10-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hurricane Dorian, which tore through the Bahamas in early September, left a trail of total destruction in its wake. Dozens of ...
Blog post | 22-10-2019 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs
When Ebola broke out in Liberia in 2014, people needed more than only healthcare: they also needed mental health and psychosocial ...