Full Coverage: Netherlands

10.03.2008

28.01.2008 Eurooppalainen oikeusistuin päätti Hollannissa ensimmäistä kertaa historiassa, että julkisissa hankinnoissa saa vaatia reilun kaupan kriteerien täyttämistä.

30.11.2007 Sweden tops a new Humanitarian Response Index, followed by Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the European Commission.
From: Dara International

14.03.2007 The British Government has been urged to suspend plans for experimental GM potato trials, in the wake of a Dutch court order for the destruction of permits for trials in the Netherlands because of inadequate assessment of environmental risks.

23.12.2006 The Dutch government has pledged $201 million to the UN Children's Fund to help ensure that children in conflict, natural disasters and emerging from crisis can go to school.

25.09.2006 Kymmenen suomalaista kansalaisjärjestöä luovutti perjantaina 22. syyskuuta oikeusministeri Leena Luhtaselle kannanoton, jossa ilmaisevat huolensa siitä, että Alankomaissa on sallittu rekisteröidä puolue, jonka pyrkimyksenä on purkaa lapsen keskeistä ihmisoikeussuojaa. Kannanoton ovat allekirjoittaneet lapsikeskeistä kehitysyhteistyötä, kummilapsitoimintaa ja perhe- ja nuorisotyötä tekevät sekä lasten, naisten ja perheiden hyvinvointia ja oikeuksia ajavat järjestöt.

29.08.2006 NEW DELHI (IPS) - As more details emerge of the events that led to the detention of 12 Indian Muslims travelling aboard an aborted Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam last week, it becomes apparent that they were victims of racial and religious prejudice. It also becomes equally clear that the Netherlands is unlikely to apologise to or compensate the victims unless the Indian government takes a tough stand on the issue.

12.06.2006 Guss van Kouwenhoven was sentenced to eight years in prison for violating a UN arms embargo on Liberia by trading weapons for timber rights during the Liberian civil war that killed more than 250,000 and lasted 14 years.

18.05.2006 The Netherlands government plans to fund Bangladesh NGO BRAC for its new WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme) initiative in response to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). BRAC’s WASH Programme plans to achieve the Environmental Sustainability target set under the MDGs.

24.02.2006 Residents of the Netherlands, armed with a tax break for computer purchases and some of Europe's lowest broadband fees, lead the world in the use of personal computers and the Internet, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts released Tuesday.

30.01.2006 The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce is organising a two day fact finding mission in February for British firms who want to find out more about selling into the fast-growing Dutch health ICT market.

20.12.2005 THE Netherlands government recently provided 4m Euros (about sh8b) to four public universities for training women in Information and communication Technology (ICT), the Netherlands ambassador has said.

24.11.2005 The Netherlands is demanding guarantees from its NATO partners in Afghanistan and from President Hamid Karzai that prisoners will be treated in a humane manner, according to international law. In reaction to criticism in parliament, Foreign Minister Ben Bot said these guarantees were an important condition for the participation of Dutch troops in a dangerous mission in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan.

11.10.2005 Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the extensive collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus.

22.09.2005 The Netherlands is creating a unified citizen database to centralise the management of citizen health and welfare issues.
The new database of case histories will be able to track citizens from birth to death.

21.09.2005 Principles and policies for preserving the digital heritage will be on the agenda of an international conference that is taking place from 4 to 5 November 2005 in The Hague.

24.06.2005 The Dutch National Youth Council is looking for young participants for a seminar in The Hague coinciding with the G8 summit. Young people from all over Europe will enjoy an opportunity to speak their minds on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the main theme of the event.
From: Nationale Jeugdraad

23.05.2005 There may be a chink in the armour of Robert Mugabe's programme of farm seizures. If a dispossessed farmer is a national of a country which has signed formal investment agreements with Zimbabwe, international arbitration procedures could be available.

13.05.2005 DAREnet is formally launched to provide free access to research materials produced by the major Dutch universities.

04.04.2005 Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Laurens Jan Brinkhorst has submitted his plans of introducing commercial digital radio to the House of Representatives. This will help commercial broadcasters to air programmes with a perfect sound quality, using the Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcast (TDAB) technique.