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What role should the private sector play in peace and justice: Recap of our peace&justice café

On Thursday 14 April, professionals from The Hague’s public, private, and non-profit sectors came together in a hybrid event to highlight the role the private sector can, should, and does play in driving a more peaceful and just world.   Photo…

Korea Future: North Korean Prison Database – April 2022 Launch 

A new resource for human rights activists and accountability researchers has been launched at the Humanity Hub. The North Korean Prison Database provides a first-time look at the details of nearly 600 perpetrators linked to more than 5000 human…

Digital Art Exhibition: “Exposure, Solidarity, Resistance: Photographing the Daily Life of Human Rights” 

By Sarah Bumberger The Hague Humanity Hub is honoured to be working with the TMC Asser Institute and the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (KABK) on the opening of "Exposure, Solidarity, Resistance", a thought-provoking series of images…

Ukrainian city and civil society delegation visit The Hague Humanity Hub to discuss rebuilding and recovery

As part of a visit to the The Hague and Rotterdam, a Ukrainian delegation visited The Hague Humanity Hub to discuss recovery, reconstruction, and rebuilding for occupied and damaged regions following the Russian invasion one year ago this week.…

How can we reorient the financial system away from fossil fuels? We spoke to Umme Hoque of The Sunrise Project to find out!

By Thomas Ansell The Sunrise Project’s new Finance Action Organisers Network initiative aims to shift global finance beyond fossil fuels, cut off new fossil projects from the global financial system that supports them and hasten the transition…

UN Centre for Humanitarian Data report: HDX platform used by 1.5 million people in 2022

February 2023: The Humanitarian Data Centre of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which manages the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform, has published a report on the state of ‘open humanitarian…

Democracy Drinks February 2023: the importance of local democracy

By Thomas Ansell On February 13, more than 50 Democracy Defenders gathered at The Hague Humanity Hub for an edition of #DemocracyDrinks. The event series, which is held in collaboration with the Netherlands Helsinki Committee and the Netherlands…

The Hague Humanity Hub hosts over 150 peacebuilders, policy makers, and practitioners at the Peace & Justice Reception 2023 

By Thomas Ansell  On February 2 more than 150 figures from the world of Peace & Justice came together at The Hague Humanity Hub for an evening of networking and finding new opportunities for collaboration.   Perhaps…

How technology impacts human rights and freedoms, including the use of AI and advanced technologies: Do we need to rethink human rights? An interview with Afef Abrougui of Fair Tech 

By Thomas Ansell In 2021, there were an estimated 6.3 billion smartphone subscriptions around the world, whilst the IBM Global AI Adoption Index for 2022 estimated that more than 37% of companies worldwide utilise AI in their processes.…

Clooney Foundation for Justice launches new ‘Justice Beyond Borders’ mapping tool at The Hague Humanity Hub

By Thomas Ansell On February 7, 2023, the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s programme The Docket launched its new Justice Beyond Borders Tool: which intends to help survivors of atrocities achieve justice through the principle of Universal…

European Commission to open centre in The Hague to document war crimes committed in Ukraine

By Thomas Ansell The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced that an international centre to record and investigate war crimes committed in Ukraine will be opened in The Hague. Here is the readout of the speech announcing…

What is Impact Investing and is it the future of capital raising? We spoke to the experts at Floyd Davis Finance to find out!

By Thomas Ansell Whilst the idea of socially-responsible investing has its roots in religious thought, the idea of investing for social impact has its modern Western history in the anti-Apartheid movement of the later 20th century, and the…