The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is a timely research product developed by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) that provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the last decade.  The European Launch of the GTI will bring together the European Union, RUSI-Europe, Europol, the Institute for Economics & […]

Activist is one of the main programs of the Movies that Matter Festival and is entirely devoted to (films about) human rights defenders. The program presents eight documentaries about activists, all of whom are guests at the festival for Q&As and meetings. In addition, a personal impact and network program is organised for each of […]

KUNO is hosting a roundtable at Cordaid to discuss the status of the localization of humanitarian aid in Ukraine, access to humanitarian financing, and the quality of the partnerships between Ukrainian and international humanitarian actors. Why is it so difficult to cut the bureaucracy? How can local civil society actors be involved with setting the […]

On March 28, 15:00, join us at the Humanity Hub for a lecture and Q&A with Babloo Loitongbam, a human rights defender from India. Babloo is the Director of Human Rights Alert and has been fighting to defend human rights in Manipur, a conflict zone in the north east of India, for 30 years now. […]

On April 20, 2023, Professor Fakhri will deliver the 8th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture in the Peace Palace in the Hague. The title of his lecture is: ‘The right to food, violence, and food systems’. To allow for a better understanding of how food systems operate and to reframe how the right to food is addressed in […]

Cinema Without Borders is a workshop and networking programme organised by Movies that Matter. The five day interactive programme brings together 12 (starting) human rights film festival organisers from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iraq, Lebanon, Myanmar/Thailand, Nigeria and Tanzania. During this pitch event the 12 participants will present human rights film festival/mobile […]

#DemocracyDrinks special edition: Summit for Democracy Join us on 29 March for our monthly #DemocracyDrinks. This edition of #DemocracyDrinks coincides with the opening of the second global Summit for Democracy. Therefore our event will be a special edition, in collaboration with the US Embassy in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While […]

Every year, the League for Human Rights awards the Clara Meijer-Wichmann Medal to a person or group that has made a special case for human rights in the Netherlands. Because human rights are not self-evident in the Netherlands either. The surcharge affair is an example of this. In 2022, the medal was awarded to Chermaine Leysner, Renske […]

Join us this Thursday (30 March) for a Knowledge Sharing session with Fedir (Freddy) Dunebabin, Programme Manager in Ukraine with the Dr Denis Mukwege Foundation. Reflecting on his experiences in Ukraine, Freddy will share challenges of coordinating and delivering care to survivors of sexual violence in an ongoing conflict and how humanitarian workers and other […]

On Tuesday 4 April, 2023, from 16:00-17:30 (CET), the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) will launch a Live Webinar to assess the State of Terrorism Studies with ISGA and CSTPV on the occasion of the new Perspectives on Terrorism issue release. The field of terrorism studies has evolved over the past years, and a panel of distinguished […]

Join us for the Workshop: Risk Assessment Toolkit for Humanitarians, hosted by Michele Moorlag-Salcido, Junior Advisor and Office Administrator at Global Risk Advice (GRA). The awareness and confidence needed to carry out your work safely and effectively in volatile settings, depends in large on your ability to assess and mitigate risks within the context of […]

Between violent coercion and responsive governance For more than four decades, drug trafficking gangs have monopolised violence in hundreds of favelas (informal neighbourhoods) across Rio de Janeiro and replaced state authority with governance forms of their own. Yet these relationships vary considerably across time and space. Some gangs have developed responsive relations with local populations […]

Mediation awareness week introduces you to the art and science of mediation - a form of dispute resolution in which a neutral third person (a mediator) helps parties solve their disputes on their own. While there is a common misconception of mediation being solely a legal tool for lawyers, here is why in fact mediation […]

“Climate Change is happening now, and to all of us. No country or community is immune. And, as is always the case, the poor and vulnerable are the first to suffer and the worst hit.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres The climate crisis is already having huge effects within our world: from governmental changes to […]

Are you currently an intern at an organisation within the Humanity Hub’s Membership Community? Then this Hub Intern Networking event is for you! Many of our member organisations have interns on their team, and this event, organised by our interns for yours, is the right place to network & share experience. For this third intern […]

“One of the main causes of hunger and famine is violence and armed conflict. In turn, armed conflict leads to more food insecurity. How then to get out of this vicious cycle?” says Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and an internationally recognised expert on food systems and human rights.On April 20, 2023, Professor […]

Every month, the Hub Team hosts a member onboarding session to welcome new members and facilitate a soft landing within the community. New members will learn more about what The Hub does, what the Hub Team looks like, how we can support them in their outreach and visibility, and all the meeting services we have to offer. […]