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SUMMARY:Rule of Law Training
DESCRIPTION:The Matra Rule of Law Training Programme is designed to strengthen institutional capacity in the field of rule of law within government organisations in Albania\, Armenia\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Georgia\, Kosovo\, Moldova\, Montenegro\, North Macedonia\, Serbia\, Türkiye\, and Ukraine. Each year we offer (hybrid) training courses\, providing participants with insights into best practices across a wide range of rule of law topics. \n\n\n\nThrough interactive sessions that blend theory with practical skills\, as well as study visits\, our programme equips policy advisors\, members of the judiciary and other civil servants working in the government and justice sectors with the knowledge and skills needed to drive reforms within their respective countries. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, by taking part in the training programme\, participants become part of a large international network of alumni\, lecturers and public institutions in the Netherlands and in the target countries. This network serves as a platform for learning\, exchange and collaboration. \n\n\n\nThe Matra Rule of Law Training Programme is designed and delivered by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee\, Leiden Law School and The Hague Academy for Local Governance. It is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands\, and administered by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) on behalf of the Ministry. For questions relating to the Matra Rule of Law Training Programme please contact us via matrarolt@nhc.nl \n\n\n\nThe following hybrid training courses are on offer in 2024-2025: \n\n\n\nIn 2024-2025 the following hybrid training courses are offered: \n\n\n\n1. Administration of Justice (full brochure) \n\n\n\nThis training will focus on the “judicial” dimension of Chapter 23. The training will focus on the fundamental principles of judicial organisation under the EU acquis – with a special focus on the case law of the EU Court of Justice – and groundbreaking case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Participants will also learn about best practices in the administration of justice in the Netherlands\, and the organisation and functioning of the judiciary. Participants will be introduced to the concept of independence and impartiality as developed in the robust case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Participants will discuss the legal framework regarding the principles of accountability and independence and the application of these principles; judicial culture as a backdrop against which courts function; the role of judicial councils and the role of precedent in legal practice. \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 02 to 13 December 2024 and will be held in-person from 20-31 January 2025. Applications are now closed. \n\n\n\n2. Integrity of Civil Servants (full brochure) \n\n\n\nPublic integrity is a core value of the European vision on good governance. It is essential for a well-functioning and transparent government\, and an important precondition for economic growth. This training will help participants developing integrity policies\, in order to ensure transparency\, accountability\, efficiency and ethical behaviour within government institutions. \n\n\n\nThis training will focus on three pillars of public integrity as defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): system\, culture and accountability. Participants will discuss international and European standards\, while also learning about examples and practices from the Netherlands. How are integrity policies designed\, implemented and enforced? \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 27 January – 07 February 2025 and will be held in-person from 10 – 21 March 2025. \n\n\n\n3. Public Procurement (full brochure) \n\n\n\nThe acquis on public procurement includes general principles of transparency\, free movement of goods\, and non-discrimination. In addition\, specific EU rules apply for the coordination of awarding public works contracts\, services and supplies. Government contracts are of great economic and strategic importance and it is therefore necessary that systems are designed in such a way that conflicts of interest and corruption are prevented as much as possible. \n\n\n\nWith this training\, we want to increase knowledge of European regulations in the field of public procurement by looking at Dutch and international experience with regard to legitimacy and integrity of the purchasing process. Strong\, independent institutions protect the integrity of the system. This prevents inappropriate political or economic influence. This training also pays attention to gender responsive and transformative public procurement\, showing casing how public procurement can contribute to increasing gender equality. \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 27 January – 07 February 2025 and will be held in-person from 10 – 21 March 2025. \n\n\n\n4. Management of Public Services (full brochure) \n\n\n\nThis training addresses the question of how the public sector can be better organised to enable good public services. We look at the public sector from the perspective of multi-level governance: cooperation and coordination between multiple layers of government\, non-government actors and citizens for effective and efficient public services. Challenges surrounding decentralisation and privatisation (including public-private partnerships) are discussed\, including the financing of services. We also discuss the potential of digitalisation to make services more efficient\, transparent and accessible\, as well as accompanying challenges – for example regarding privacy\, data security and the digital divide. We discuss the importance of good personnel policy for well-functioning public institutions and services. We look at issues such as merit-based selection and promotion\, transparent performance assessments and offering training and development opportunities to government officials. \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 12 to 23 May 2025\, and in-person from 09 to 20 June 2025. Click here to apply. \n\n\n\n5. Management of Borders (full brochure) \n\n\n\nAll Matra countries share common challenges when it comes to migration\, asylum\, border management and organised transnational crime. The Western Balkans and Turkey are located on the crossroads of migration routes from conflict areas to EU member states\, while Armenia\, Georgia\, Moldova and Ukraine share common challenges in the field of border management and adjusting national legislation in order to meet the EU acquis. \n\n\n\nIn this training\, participants will strengthen their knowledge of EU asylum law and its interpretation by European courts. Sessions will be dedicated to the EU acquis\, including the EU return and readmission policy. In the field of border management\, participants will learn about Schengen legislation and the mandate of Frontex\, whiles sessions will also be held on the fight against organised crime. \n\n\n\nThe training will be held online from 12 to 23 May 2025 and in-person from 09 to 20 June 2025. Click here to apply. \n\n\n\n6. Human Rights \n\n\n\nDepending on the selected participants\, this training can be used in a number of ways to address fundamental and human rights. All government policy initiatives must be monitored for their impact on (human) rights and there must be mechanisms for monitoring and correcting practices that conflict with these rights. This training looks at mechanisms and policies that can be used to (better) safeguard internationally agreed human rights standards. Together with Dutch institutions active in this area\, we will exchange practical experiences with the participants and encourage them to reflect on the situation in their own country. \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 15 to 26 September 2025\, and in-person from 6 to 17 October 2025. \n\n\n\n7. (Functioning of) Democratic Institutions \n\n\n\nWell-functioning institutions that guarantee democracy\, the rule of law and human rights are essential for preserving the EU’s identity and values. They must guarantee and safeguard fundamental rights and freedoms. In this training we not only look at international standards (the role of the Venice Commission and the Council of Europe)\, but also at practice: how can civil servants themselves contribute to democratic policy and decision-making and increasing confidence in the government? How can organisations work more transparently? And how can the distance between the government and the citizen be reduced? \n\n\n\nThis training will be held online from 10 to 21 November 2025\, and in-person from 01 to 12 December 2025. \n\n\n\nThese training was held in 2023-2024: \n\n\n\nJudicial Cooperation \n\n\n\nIn this training we look at the importance of collaboration within the justice sector\, both at a national and international level. We will tailor the programme specifically based on the sectors in which the selected participants work. For example\, we look at the ways in which international cooperation between judges works (recognition of foreign judgments\, transfer of suspects). Regarding the enforcement of sentences\, we look at chain cooperation\, in which the fundamental values and standards of the EU are central. For example\, within criminal law\, the right balance must be found between punishment\, reintegration and the protection of victims and society. When it comes to punishment\, we will highlight the value of alternative sanctions to prison sentences. Within this training we pay special attention to cooperation between civil servants and civil society\, because Dutch chain cooperation within criminal law between government parties and civil society is highly developed and is often a revelation for experts from other countries. \n\n\n\nThis training was held online from 11 to 22 November 2024\, and in-person from 1 to 14 December 2024. \n	Register Here This link opens in a new tab\n	\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/rule-of-law-training/
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SUMMARY:Relocating Your NGO to the Netherlands: Navigating Legal and Strategic Pathways
DESCRIPTION:Overview\nAre you passionate about making a difference? Learn how to establish your own NGO in the Netherlands — join our upcoming workshop. \nAre you an NGO considering relocating or establishing operations in the Netherlands but unsure where to start? \nJoin Pro Bono Connect for an online in-depth session that brings together legal experts and civil society professionals to help guide your organisation through the Dutch legal and strategic landscape.In collaboration with Kennedy Van der Laan and the European Center for Non-Profit Law (ECNL)\, this event provides practical insights into: \n\nStrategically assessing whether relocation to the Netherlands fits your organisation’s long-term goals\nUnderstanding the Dutch legal structure for NGOs and foundations\nExploring governance requirements and best practices\nNavigating the ANBI (Public Benefit Organisation) status\nAddressing contract conversion and employment implications when moving operations\n\n  \n	Register here! This link opens in a new tab\n	 \n  \n\nPrivacy Policy\nThe Humanity Hub collects your name\, email\, and organisation (if you have one) when you sign up for events\, so they can manage the event and tell you about future ones. If you want to receive the Hub newsletter\, or if you have food allergies (for events with food)\, the Hub will collect that too. The Hub will not share your information with other companies without telling you first. The Hub might take photos or videos at events\, but you can inform the organisers if you don’t want to be in them. Your data is stored safely\, and you can ask to see it\, change it\, or have it deleted. The Hub will keep your information for five years to understand what events you like\, and you can always unsubscribe from emails or opt out of surveys. \nFor data deletion or inquiries\, contact engage@humanityhub.net
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/relocating-your-ngo-to-the-netherlands-navigating-legal-and-strategic-pathways/
LOCATION:The Hague Humanity Hub\, Fluwelen Burgwal 58\, Den Haag\, ZH\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251203T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251203T203000
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SUMMARY:[Exhibition & panel discussion] Framing Climate Justice
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nOn 3 December 2025\, from 18:00\, the Asser Institute and the Royal Academy of Art\, The Hague (KABK) will present ‘Framing Climate Justice’\, an exhibition that visually investigates the entangled consequences of our current global system. \nThree emerging photographers\, Emilie Tizien\, Jamie Smith and Tori McCrea\, spent 3 months within the Asser Institute\, collaborating closely with legal scholars to create works that translate how international and European law shapes the daily lives of The Hague’s residents to visual stories. \nThe work of three artists-in-residence acts as a powerful report from the front lines of this struggle: \n\nJamie Smith investigates the global trade in used cars\, following how Europe’s discarded vehicles are shipped to Africa under the label of ‘sustainability’. His work reveals how environmental responsibility in the Global North can mean pollution and displacement elsewhere.\nEmilie Tizien brings the climate crisis close to home\, documenting Dutch houses damaged by fluctuating groundwater levels. Her photographs expose the consequences of inaction and question who bears responsibility when the ground itself becomes unstable.\nTori McCrea collaborates with the sea to explore what justice might mean beyond the human world. Using salt and seawater as co-creators\, she asks: if the ocean could speak\, what would it demand of us?\n\nFollowing the exhibition opening\, artists and researchers will gather for a panel discussion. Together\, we will explore questions at the heart of both art and international law. Can the ‘public interest’ survive in an age of ecological breakdown? Whose stories get told\, and whose remain unseen? And what might justice look like when we begin to listen to the planet itself? \n  \nProgramme\n18:00 — Doors open & exhibition viewing\n19:00 — Panel discussion\n20:00 — End of panel discussion\, followed by a reception and continued exhibition viewing \n	Register here This link opens in a new tab
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/exhibition-panel-discussion-framing-climate-justice/
LOCATION:Asser Institute\, R.J. Schimmelpennincklaan 20-22\, The Hague\, 2517\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251204T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251204T120000
DTSTAMP:20251127T170918Z
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SUMMARY:OPORA Foundation Conference: The Future of Return
DESCRIPTION:As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year\, questions of return\, reintegration\, and mobility are becoming increasingly urgent. Existing research discusses return\, but rarely considers return amid active war. Drawing on wellbeing surveys and extensive mixed-method fieldwork\, our study illuminates the realities of returnees in wartime Ukraine. \nThis event will draw on the latest findings from our research project but will go beyond them\, highlighting the state of the art in mobility governance amid active war and political instability. Through interactive panels and breakout sessions\, together with renowned European experts we will reflect on the following topics: \n🔸 Mobility governance in the context of EU accession.\n🔸 Qualification recognition and upskilling of displaced Ukrainians.\n🔸 Reintegration challenges and patterns of repeated mobility after return.\n🔸 Operationalisation of dual intent: between integration and voluntary return. \nJoin us for “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯: 𝘛𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦”\, a hybrid conference bringing together policymakers\, researchers\, practitioners\, and community leaders from the Netherlands\, Ukraine\, and beyond. \n	Register here This link opens in a new tab
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/opora-foundation-conference-the-future-of-return/
LOCATION:The Hague Humanity Hub\, Fluwelen Burgwal 58\, Den Haag\, ZH\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251207T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20251207T180000
DTSTAMP:20251028T084826Z
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SUMMARY:Human Rights Festival 2025 – Right to life for everyone and everything
DESCRIPTION:Human rights are like oxygen: you need them to live. During the Human Rights Festival\, we reflect on what is perhaps the most fundamental human right: the right to life\, liberty\, and security\, as enshrined in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Discover\, experience\, and celebrate with others how we can strengthen this right\, for both people and nature. \n  \nRight to life for everyone and everything\nHow self-evident is the right to life\, really? What does it mean for undocumented people\, or for nature itself? A growing number of lawyers\, artists\, and activists are also advocating for environmental rights: rights for rivers\, animals\, forests\, and oceans. Because without a healthy living environment\, there is no life\, no freedom\, and no security. During the Human Rights Festival\, we explore these themes through conversations\, art\, music\, and workshops. \n  \nThe program\nThe 2025 program offers space for dialogue\, art\, music\, and action. Some of the components include: \n\nLecture by Jan van de Venis: on the rights of nature and universal human rights.\nRights of Nature Workshop: Experience in this mini-workshop how you can defend the rights of nature and give your piece of nature a voice\nVocal group KORALI: Ukrainian choral singing about love and nature.\nDialogue in The Hague: Before the festival\, discuss the rights of nature with each other under the guidance of experienced dialogue facilitators;\nWrite for Rights by Amnesty International: Write a letter\, change a life;\nWorkshop dabke dance: together we close the festival with a dance.\nThe full programme will be announced in the run-up to the festival.\n\n  \nPractical information\nDate: Sunday\, December 7\, 2025\nLocation: Grote Kerk Den Haag\, number 10 (next to Restaurant Zebedeus)\nDoors open: 1:30 PM | Start: 2:00 PM | End: 6:00 PM\nAdmission: free\, registration required \n  \n	Register here! This link opens in a new tab\n	 \n  \nWant to think along and participate?\nDo you have an idea or project that can strengthen the right to life for both people and nature? Want to help or contribute? Send a message to info@huisvoordestad-denhaag.nl .
URL:https://www.humanityhub.org/calendar/human-rights-festival-2025-right-to-life-for-everyone-and-everything/
LOCATION:Grote Kerk
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