For religious and ethnic minorities in India, the first half of 2023 has been marked by arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial demolitions of houses, allegations of illegal religious conversions, mob attacks, and lynchings. The Early Warning Project in 2023 ranks India as 8th highest-risk of concern for mass atrocities against religious minorities among 162 countries. The 2023 […]

Since the July 2021 coup, Tunisian opposition leaders, judges, lawyers, civil society activists, union members and journalists have been arbitrarily detained. The Saied regime has also provoked racist attacks on black Tunisians and migrants. Tunisia was the cradle of the Arab Spring, but its democratic gains are being dramatically eroded, bringing further instability.Tunisia is a […]

Since 2014, more than a dozen countries and political parties have announced their intention of developing a Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) – one approach to reworking and reimagining historically embedded power dynamics that underlie international development cooperation. The Netherlands is one of the most recent countries to begin the process of developing its own Feminist […]

On June 26th 2023, The Knowledge Platform Security & Rule of Law  will host a conversation on implications of  a Feminist Foreign Policy on development cooperation, with a specific emphasis on SRoL programming.  The event will discuss what distinguishes Feminist Foreign Policy from previous (similar) policies and what this policy might look like in practice […]

In February 2022 Russian forces invaded Ukraine, devastating the lives of an estimated 44 million people. Approximately 21.2 million people, mostly women and children, have crossed the border and fled to neighboring countriesOpens external. With many countries actively or indirectly involved, this conflict can be considered a gamechanger, with far-reaching global consequences. This event, the fourth episode […]

On 29 June 2023 from 17:00 to 19:00, the next edition of the #DemocracyDrinks will take place at Grand Café Utopie! This edition is titled: Stepping up the protection of civic space: What can you do? As we discussed during the Summit for Democracy and Democracy Under Threat Coalition in March 2023, democracy is under threat. This is unfortunately our […]