Netherlands Mission in Geneva
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The Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations, World Trade Organisation and other international organisations in Geneva
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About #HumanRights #GlobalHealth #Humanitarian #Migration #FoodSecurity #GlobalTrade #Digital
Our ambassador Erica Schouten has joined the #INTGenderChampions leadership network 🤩!
The network unites female & male decision-makers who are committed to break down gender barriers and to drive real, lasting change toward #genderequality. ⤵️
The network unites female & male decision-makers who are committed to break down gender barriers and to drive real, lasting change toward #genderequality. ⤵️
Welcome among the #INTGenderChampions in Geneva, Ambassador and Permanent Representative Erica Schouten of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations, WTO and other International Organisations in Geneva!
Read her commitments for #GenderEquality: genderchampions.com/champions/er...
Read her commitments for #GenderEquality: genderchampions.com/champions/er...
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our ambassador Erica Schouten has joined the #INTGenderChampions leadership network 🤩!
The network unites female & male decision-makers who are committed to break down gender barriers and to drive real, lasting change toward #genderequality. ⤵️
The network unites female & male decision-makers who are committed to break down gender barriers and to drive real, lasting change toward #genderequality. ⤵️
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This week, a team of the Netherlands is at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review in Geneva to highlight our commitment to shifting short-term aid to self-reliance, resilience and inclusion of refugees in national systems and localisation. Check our PROSPECTS partnership: 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This week, a team of the Netherlands is at the Global Refugee Forum Progress Review in Geneva to highlight our commitment to shifting short-term aid to self-reliance, resilience and inclusion of refugees in national systems and localisation. Check our PROSPECTS partnership: 1/2
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The PROSPECTS partnership aims to improve the access of refugees and host communities through quality education, social protection, skills development and decent work. #PROSPECTSPartnership
December 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The PROSPECTS partnership aims to improve the access of refugees and host communities through quality education, social protection, skills development and decent work. #PROSPECTSPartnership
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Human rights are not only legal commitments set out in intl conventions - they are lived. They protect how we express, worship, organise, love & participate in our communities every day. They belong to everyone, everywhere. Message of #TeamEurope in Geneva on #HumanRightsDay ⏬🎥
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Human rights are not only legal commitments set out in intl conventions - they are lived. They protect how we express, worship, organise, love & participate in our communities every day. They belong to everyone, everywhere. Message of #TeamEurope in Geneva on #HumanRightsDay ⏬🎥
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Human rights belong to everyone – everywhere, at all times. Yet they are violated every day.
That is why the Human Rights Tulip will be presented today on #HumanRightsDay to support human rights defenders around the world and recognize their important work.
That is why the Human Rights Tulip will be presented today on #HumanRightsDay to support human rights defenders around the world and recognize their important work.
December 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Human rights belong to everyone – everywhere, at all times. Yet they are violated every day.
That is why the Human Rights Tulip will be presented today on #HumanRightsDay to support human rights defenders around the world and recognize their important work.
That is why the Human Rights Tulip will be presented today on #HumanRightsDay to support human rights defenders around the world and recognize their important work.
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The efforts of human rights defenders are crucial to the protection of universal human rights. Support for human rights defenders is therefore a priority in the Dutch government's foreign policy. Read the interview with Ayin: www.government.nl/latest/weblo... 2/2
Winner of the Human Rights Tulip: how Ayin Network is building a memory for Sudan
In Arabic, Ayin refers to the eye. In Sudanese dialect it means ‘to look’. It is a symbolic name for the media platform that receives this year’s Dutch Human Rights Tulip: Ayin Network. Journalists th...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The efforts of human rights defenders are crucial to the protection of universal human rights. Support for human rights defenders is therefore a priority in the Dutch government's foreign policy. Read the interview with Ayin: www.government.nl/latest/weblo... 2/2
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This year's Human Rights Tulip Award was presented to media platform @ayinnetwork.bsky.social for their work in Sudan.
On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, our Human Rights Ambassador Wim Geerts presented the award at the Peace Palace. 1/2
On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, our Human Rights Ambassador Wim Geerts presented the award at the Peace Palace. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This year's Human Rights Tulip Award was presented to media platform @ayinnetwork.bsky.social for their work in Sudan.
On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, our Human Rights Ambassador Wim Geerts presented the award at the Peace Palace. 1/2
On behalf of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, our Human Rights Ambassador Wim Geerts presented the award at the Peace Palace. 1/2
Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence often don’t dare to speak out.
DISARMING SILENCE, through art and dialogue, is a powerful catalyst for healing, advocacy and change.
🙏Thank you to everyone who made this event possible.
@unidir.org @glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social @unwomen.bsky.social
DISARMING SILENCE, through art and dialogue, is a powerful catalyst for healing, advocacy and change.
🙏Thank you to everyone who made this event possible.
@unidir.org @glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social @unwomen.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence often don’t dare to speak out.
DISARMING SILENCE, through art and dialogue, is a powerful catalyst for healing, advocacy and change.
🙏Thank you to everyone who made this event possible.
@unidir.org @glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social @unwomen.bsky.social
DISARMING SILENCE, through art and dialogue, is a powerful catalyst for healing, advocacy and change.
🙏Thank you to everyone who made this event possible.
@unidir.org @glsurvivorsfund.bsky.social @unwomen.bsky.social
#HumanRights are not abstract. They shape our daily lives, often in ways we may not always notice.
On #HumanRightsDay #TeamEurope 🇪🇺 Ambassadors in Geneva show how essential and positive human rights are, within reach for everyone. 🌍
🎥w/Amb @ericaschoutennl.bsky.social
On #HumanRightsDay #TeamEurope 🇪🇺 Ambassadors in Geneva show how essential and positive human rights are, within reach for everyone. 🌍
🎥w/Amb @ericaschoutennl.bsky.social
Human rights are not only legal commitments set out in intl conventions - they are lived. They protect how we express, worship, organise, love & participate in our communities every day. They belong to everyone, everywhere. Message of #TeamEurope in Geneva on #HumanRightsDay ⏬🎥
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#HumanRights are not abstract. They shape our daily lives, often in ways we may not always notice.
On #HumanRightsDay #TeamEurope 🇪🇺 Ambassadors in Geneva show how essential and positive human rights are, within reach for everyone. 🌍
🎥w/Amb @ericaschoutennl.bsky.social
On #HumanRightsDay #TeamEurope 🇪🇺 Ambassadors in Geneva show how essential and positive human rights are, within reach for everyone. 🌍
🎥w/Amb @ericaschoutennl.bsky.social
⏱️ Every 10 minutes a woman is murdered by someone she knows.
This isn't just data. It's lives lost caused by femicide. the final act in a deadly cycle of violence against women.
Red flags start small.
🗣️Speaking up can save lives. We can prevent these deaths.
#NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
This isn't just data. It's lives lost caused by femicide. the final act in a deadly cycle of violence against women.
Red flags start small.
🗣️Speaking up can save lives. We can prevent these deaths.
#NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
⏱️ Every 10 minutes a woman is murdered by someone she knows.
This isn't just data. It's lives lost caused by femicide. the final act in a deadly cycle of violence against women.
Red flags start small.
🗣️Speaking up can save lives. We can prevent these deaths.
#NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
This isn't just data. It's lives lost caused by femicide. the final act in a deadly cycle of violence against women.
Red flags start small.
🗣️Speaking up can save lives. We can prevent these deaths.
#NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
During our Strategic Dialogue with @who.int we discussed collaboration and Dutch 🇳🇱 global health priorities for 2026.
The WHO remains a crucial partner with a strong coordinating and standard-setting role for #globalhealth.
A healthier world is a healthier future for all of us.
#HealthForAll
The WHO remains a crucial partner with a strong coordinating and standard-setting role for #globalhealth.
A healthier world is a healthier future for all of us.
#HealthForAll
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
During our Strategic Dialogue with @who.int we discussed collaboration and Dutch 🇳🇱 global health priorities for 2026.
The WHO remains a crucial partner with a strong coordinating and standard-setting role for #globalhealth.
A healthier world is a healthier future for all of us.
#HealthForAll
The WHO remains a crucial partner with a strong coordinating and standard-setting role for #globalhealth.
A healthier world is a healthier future for all of us.
#HealthForAll
Ambassador Erica Schouten reconfirmed our 🇳🇱 commitment to funding the global HIV response through the renewed multi annual agreement with @unaids.org.
Erica Schouten: "We can’t walk away at the moment when HIV is on the rise again. The HIV response needs global solidarity."
#EndAIDS
Erica Schouten: "We can’t walk away at the moment when HIV is on the rise again. The HIV response needs global solidarity."
#EndAIDS
The Government of the Netherlands will contribute €18.2 million per year from 2026 to 2029 to UNAIDS for the global HIV response.
Thank you, the Netherlands, for your strong leadership. This will help us deliver on our shared promise of ending AIDS.
@nlmissiongeneva.bsky.social
Thank you, the Netherlands, for your strong leadership. This will help us deliver on our shared promise of ending AIDS.
@nlmissiongeneva.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Ambassador Erica Schouten reconfirmed our 🇳🇱 commitment to funding the global HIV response through the renewed multi annual agreement with @unaids.org.
Erica Schouten: "We can’t walk away at the moment when HIV is on the rise again. The HIV response needs global solidarity."
#EndAIDS
Erica Schouten: "We can’t walk away at the moment when HIV is on the rise again. The HIV response needs global solidarity."
#EndAIDS
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. AIDS is not over.🎗️
Together we can overcome the disruption ensuring sustainable transition.
#KingdomNL continues to invest in a strong, sustainable HIV response.
Everyone deserves access to prevention, treatment, and support. 🌍
@unaids.org
Together we can overcome the disruption ensuring sustainable transition.
#KingdomNL continues to invest in a strong, sustainable HIV response.
Everyone deserves access to prevention, treatment, and support. 🌍
@unaids.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. AIDS is not over.🎗️
Together we can overcome the disruption ensuring sustainable transition.
#KingdomNL continues to invest in a strong, sustainable HIV response.
Everyone deserves access to prevention, treatment, and support. 🌍
@unaids.org
Together we can overcome the disruption ensuring sustainable transition.
#KingdomNL continues to invest in a strong, sustainable HIV response.
Everyone deserves access to prevention, treatment, and support. 🌍
@unaids.org
On International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we honour the courageous women fighting for justice and equality. 💪🌍
They are catalysts for real social change, often facing grave risks, including (sexual) harassment and gender based violence, online and offline.
#OrangeTheWorld #WHRDs #NoExcuse
They are catalysts for real social change, often facing grave risks, including (sexual) harassment and gender based violence, online and offline.
#OrangeTheWorld #WHRDs #NoExcuse
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
On International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, we honour the courageous women fighting for justice and equality. 💪🌍
They are catalysts for real social change, often facing grave risks, including (sexual) harassment and gender based violence, online and offline.
#OrangeTheWorld #WHRDs #NoExcuse
They are catalysts for real social change, often facing grave risks, including (sexual) harassment and gender based violence, online and offline.
#OrangeTheWorld #WHRDs #NoExcuse
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Together with partners and local organisations, we work to strengthen prevention, protection and support for survivors.
www.government.nl/latest/weblo...
www.government.nl/latest/weblo...
Working together to end violence against women and girls: a global challenge
Violence against women and girls is a worldwide problem. The Netherlands is working with other countries to combat it. But the Netherlands also needs to do better at home, for example by stepping up i...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Together with partners and local organisations, we work to strengthen prevention, protection and support for survivors.
www.government.nl/latest/weblo...
www.government.nl/latest/weblo...
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Violence takes many forms, including femicide, online harassment and abuse, domestic violence and conflict-related sexual violence. Women and girls are affected worldwide – including in the Netherlands. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Violence takes many forms, including femicide, online harassment and abuse, domestic violence and conflict-related sexual violence. Women and girls are affected worldwide – including in the Netherlands. 1/2
Digital abuse is real violence 💻📲. From harassment to deepfakes, online spaces are becoming increasingly dangerous for women and girls.
Together with @unwomen.bsky.social we 🇳🇱 call for safer platforms, stronger protections, and accountability.
Virtual violence = real violence⚠️
#OrangeTheWorld 🧡
Together with @unwomen.bsky.social we 🇳🇱 call for safer platforms, stronger protections, and accountability.
Virtual violence = real violence⚠️
#OrangeTheWorld 🧡
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Digital abuse is real violence 💻📲. From harassment to deepfakes, online spaces are becoming increasingly dangerous for women and girls.
Together with @unwomen.bsky.social we 🇳🇱 call for safer platforms, stronger protections, and accountability.
Virtual violence = real violence⚠️
#OrangeTheWorld 🧡
Together with @unwomen.bsky.social we 🇳🇱 call for safer platforms, stronger protections, and accountability.
Virtual violence = real violence⚠️
#OrangeTheWorld 🧡
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Nearly 60% of young women & girls globally have experienced online harassment. This is unacceptable. Today, we stand united to call for an end to digital violence against women and girls. #NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Nearly 60% of young women & girls globally have experienced online harassment. This is unacceptable. Today, we stand united to call for an end to digital violence against women and girls. #NoExcuse #OrangeTheWorld
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One in three women worldwide experiences violence. We cannot accept this as normal. In my message for Orange the World, I call for action against all forms of violence against women and girls - and for men to take responsibility in this fight. #orangetheworld
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
One in three women worldwide experiences violence. We cannot accept this as normal. In my message for Orange the World, I call for action against all forms of violence against women and girls - and for men to take responsibility in this fight. #orangetheworld
Ambassador Erica Schouten met with Ramesh Rajasingham, head of @unocha.org in Geneva.
#KingdomNL provides flexible funding to OCHA to support rapid, needs-based humanitarian response.
Strong coordination is needed now more than ever, and we 🇳🇱stand firmly with OCHA’s vital work worldwide.
#KingdomNL provides flexible funding to OCHA to support rapid, needs-based humanitarian response.
Strong coordination is needed now more than ever, and we 🇳🇱stand firmly with OCHA’s vital work worldwide.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Ambassador Erica Schouten met with Ramesh Rajasingham, head of @unocha.org in Geneva.
#KingdomNL provides flexible funding to OCHA to support rapid, needs-based humanitarian response.
Strong coordination is needed now more than ever, and we 🇳🇱stand firmly with OCHA’s vital work worldwide.
#KingdomNL provides flexible funding to OCHA to support rapid, needs-based humanitarian response.
Strong coordination is needed now more than ever, and we 🇳🇱stand firmly with OCHA’s vital work worldwide.
Today is the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls.
🟠Let's #OrangeTheWorld and stand UNited to end ALL forms of violence against women and girls, both offline and online💻📲.
There is #NoExcuse for gender based violence.
Not now.
Not ever.
#KNLagainstGBV🧡
🟠Let's #OrangeTheWorld and stand UNited to end ALL forms of violence against women and girls, both offline and online💻📲.
There is #NoExcuse for gender based violence.
Not now.
Not ever.
#KNLagainstGBV🧡
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today is the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls.
🟠Let's #OrangeTheWorld and stand UNited to end ALL forms of violence against women and girls, both offline and online💻📲.
There is #NoExcuse for gender based violence.
Not now.
Not ever.
#KNLagainstGBV🧡
🟠Let's #OrangeTheWorld and stand UNited to end ALL forms of violence against women and girls, both offline and online💻📲.
There is #NoExcuse for gender based violence.
Not now.
Not ever.
#KNLagainstGBV🧡
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At the start of this century, the world united against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria. The Global Fund has since saved 70 million lives. International support is vital. The Netherlands remains committed and will contribute €195.2 million over the next 4 years. www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025...
The Netherlands Reaffirms Commitment to Global Health
The Government of the Netherlands is pledging €195.2 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for the period 2026–2029. This pledge is a re-affirmation of the Netherlands’ st...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
At the start of this century, the world united against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria. The Global Fund has since saved 70 million lives. International support is vital. The Netherlands remains committed and will contribute €195.2 million over the next 4 years. www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025...
Join us at the 🇺🇳 International Bazaar 2025 in Geneva 🎉 and visit us at the Dutch booth 🇳🇱 🧡!
📆 9 December
📍 Palais des Nations
📣 Public event
👉 Register: indico.un.org/event/1020072/
All proceeds go to children in need ❤️👶.
Organised by UNWG, the Geneva Missions and @ungeneva.bsky.social.
📆 9 December
📍 Palais des Nations
📣 Public event
👉 Register: indico.un.org/event/1020072/
All proceeds go to children in need ❤️👶.
Organised by UNWG, the Geneva Missions and @ungeneva.bsky.social.
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Join us at the 🇺🇳 International Bazaar 2025 in Geneva 🎉 and visit us at the Dutch booth 🇳🇱 🧡!
📆 9 December
📍 Palais des Nations
📣 Public event
👉 Register: indico.un.org/event/1020072/
All proceeds go to children in need ❤️👶.
Organised by UNWG, the Geneva Missions and @ungeneva.bsky.social.
📆 9 December
📍 Palais des Nations
📣 Public event
👉 Register: indico.un.org/event/1020072/
All proceeds go to children in need ❤️👶.
Organised by UNWG, the Geneva Missions and @ungeneva.bsky.social.
It is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness Week. We all depend on antibiotics 💊. But what happens if they stop working?
Let’s use antibiotics responsibly to avoid increasing drug resistance, prevent infections & support global efforts to protect the effectiveness of these lifesaving medicines.
Let’s use antibiotics responsibly to avoid increasing drug resistance, prevent infections & support global efforts to protect the effectiveness of these lifesaving medicines.
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
It is World #AntimicrobialResistance Awareness Week. We all depend on antibiotics 💊. But what happens if they stop working?
Let’s use antibiotics responsibly to avoid increasing drug resistance, prevent infections & support global efforts to protect the effectiveness of these lifesaving medicines.
Let’s use antibiotics responsibly to avoid increasing drug resistance, prevent infections & support global efforts to protect the effectiveness of these lifesaving medicines.
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Palestinian involvement and support are key for making the US peace plan succeed. We remain firmly committed to a negotiated two-state solution. For this, a reformed and financially stable Palestinian Authority is crucial. The Netherlands commends the progress made so far. 2/2
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Palestinian involvement and support are key for making the US peace plan succeed. We remain firmly committed to a negotiated two-state solution. For this, a reformed and financially stable Palestinian Authority is crucial. The Netherlands commends the progress made so far. 2/2