This No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) news digest rounds up some of the week’s top LGBTI rights stories for the week ending 17 January: 

Indonesia: Inadequate Efforts to Curb Intolerance
Human Rights Watch, 17 Jan 2019

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s administration…

Maxime Benvenuto is design graduation student from Eindhoven.

Daeun Lim is design graduation student from Eindhoven.

This No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) news digest rounds up some of the week’s top LGBTI rights stories for the week ending 3 January:

Germany’s law recognizing a third gender comes into effect
Gay Star News, 02 Jan 2019

A law in…

Regardless your cultural background, disability, gender, or sexual preference; everyone has the right to participate and be an integral part of society. We strive for a world that is divers and inclusive and in which you feel safe. But…

Abdelkader Benali saus: “we are ourselves children of migration”.

This HagueTalks is in the framework of Remembrance day, 4 May.

Syrian artist and publisher Samer al-Kadri believes in the power of a good book. He fled from Damascus to Istanbul. There he set up PAGES, the first Arabic bookshop…

Kiruba Munusamy, an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India, is striving for the annihilation of caste through social justice. She explains why legal empowerment of Dalit Women is vital for the liberation and social empowerment of Dalit…

Gerd Junne says: “the differences between us and people coming here are not so big”

Regardless of cultural background, gender or sexual preference; People must feel protected by the legal system. This not only means that everyone is equal to the law on paper, but also that there is no single cultural norm dominating….

To mark International Women’s Day 2018, a dialogue has been organised in the iconic Peace Palace in The Hague. We will highlight the role and contribution of women to international peace and security, and the challenges and opportunities of…

Regardless your cultural background, disability, gender, or sexual preference; everyone has the right to participate and be an integral part of society. We strive for a world that is divers and inclusive and in which you feel safe. But…

In this week’s review, news about Gbagbo and Blé Goudé’s acquittal and dissenting opinion, the Trial Chamber’s decision and Prosecution’s appeal on immediate release, and the Appeals Chamber’s decision to maintain custody and schedule a hearing; Questioning of former…

In this week’s review, news about MICT request concerning the treatment of convicts in Estonia, compensation for Holocaust survivors, submissions in Turinabo contempt case, Argentinian court considers war crimes charges against Saudi Crown Prince over Yemen, and more

Argentinian Prosecutors…

This video captures the moment Mexican human rights activist Graciela Pérez Rodriguez officially received the 2017 Human Rights Tulip from the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs Halbe Zijlstra. The Human Rights Tulip is awarded every year by the Dutch…

Pilirani Khoza, a Malawian delegate at the African Union – European Union Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire , told Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Halbe Zijlstra her views on what young people in Africa need: “If there can be investment…

Statement of Marie Claire, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This video was made by Impact (https://www.impact-now.org/) and has been shared here with permission.

Statement of Gloriose, a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This video was made by Impact (https://www.impact-now.org/) and has been shared here with permission.

Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag, made a strong argument against populism, during an annual lecture in September, in honour of Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg.

by Sigrid Kaag

Ladies and gentlemen,

Silence.

Everything begins in silence.

Without the contrast between…