Around 50 staff members and their families from the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and the U.S. Consulate in Amsterdam participated in the Amsterdam Pride Walk on July 28, 2018. The U.S. Mission in the Netherlands loves joining the people of Amsterdam in celebrating Pride and we reaffirm the United States’ commitment to protecting and ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 1 August, 2018 | Topics:
Amsterdam, Deputy Chief of Mission, Events, Featured Event, Gender Issues, Human Rights, News, Public Affairs, U.S. & the Netherlands
| Tags: LGBTI
Press Statement Mike Pompeo Secretary of State Washington, DC June 1, 2018 The United States joins people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Pride Month, and reaffirms its commitment to protecting and defending the human rights of all, including LGBTI persons. In many parts of the world, LGBTI individuals ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 2 June, 2018 | Topics:
Events, Featured Event, Fundamental Freedoms, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State
| Tags: LGBTI, Michael R. Pompeo, Pride
The U.S. Embassy in The Hague hosted a symposium May 16 to discuss tolerance, discrimination, and freedom in relation to the play Anne & Emmett. The play, written by symposium panelist Janet Langhart Cohen, details a conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till in a town called Memory. The play has its Dutch debut May ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 17 May, 2018 | Topics:
Ambassador, Art & Culture, Events, Featured Event, Human Rights
| Tags: diversity
Washington, DC- August 15, 2017 SECRETARY TILLERSON: Morning, all. We are releasing today the
2016 International Religious Freedom Report. This report is a requirement pursuant to the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 – legislation that upholds religious freedom as a core American value under the Constitution’s First Amendment, as well as a universal human right. This law calls for the government ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 16 August, 2017 | Topics:
Events, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Fundamental Freedoms, Human Rights, News, Reports
| Tags: International Religious Freedom Report, Rex Tillerson
Department of State Ben Franklin Room Washington, DC June 27, 2017 Well, thank you so much, Susan, and welcome to all of you to the State Department for this important event, and particularly I’m honored to welcome members of Congress, and in particular I want to highlight the leadership of Chairman Corker who’s with ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 28 June, 2017 | Topics:
Events, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Official Reports
| Tags: Rex Tillerson
Press Statement Rex W. Tillerson Secretary of State Washington, DC June 7, 2017 2017 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Pride Month In recognition of LGBTI Month, the Department of State affirms its solidarity with the human rights defenders and civil society organizations working around the world to uphold the fundamental freedoms of LGBTI ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 8 June, 2017 | Topics:
Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News
| Tags: LGBTI, Pride, Rex Tillerson
The
Centre Child Trafficking in Human Beings (CKM) has set up an EscapeVan in The Hague in order to heighten awareness for the crime of human trafficking. The Human Rights team of the U.S. Embassy in The Hague found out how difficult it was to escape.
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 27 March, 2017 | Topics:
Featured Event, Human Rights
Yesterday we celebrated international women’s day and women’s history month at the U.S. Consulate General. Let’s keep pushing so that future girls think “what’s the big deal” with a woman astronaut, a woman president, a woman CEO, a woman dean, whatever.
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 10 March, 2017 | Topics:
Amsterdam, Featured Event, Gender Issues, History, Human Rights, News, Public Affairs, Video
In celebration of U.S. Black History Month, Vice Consul Kharmika Alston highlighted the immeasurable contribution black Americans have made to U.S. society during a February 4 New Year’s reception hosted by the National Institution for the Dutch Slavery Past and its Legacy (NiNsee). NiNsee strives to shed light on the history of Dutch slavery ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 7 February, 2017 | Topics:
Amsterdam, Art & Culture, Human Rights
When Dr. King visited the Netherlands in 1964, he said, “Honesty and realism impel me to admit that we still have a long, long way to go. But I think the important thing is that we are making progress.” At Sunday’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Dinner in the Hague, Chargé d’Affaires Shawn Crowley said ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 30 January, 2017 | Topics:
Art & Culture, Culture, Europe & Eurasia, History, Human Rights
| Tags: Jr.
Last week, U.S. Vice Consul Kharmika Alston (left) attended the closing the Netherlands’ first annual Black Achievement Month (October 1-31). See
www.blackachievementmonth.nl to learn more about this important milestone.
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 8 November, 2016 | Topics:
Culture, Education, Featured Event, History, Human Rights
| Tags: Amsterdam, Black Achievement Month, Black History Month, Consulate General
Source:
Europol Press Release , September 19, 2016 U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DS) Deputy Assistant Secretary John M. Eustace and Europol Deputy Director Wil van Gemert met this week in The Hague. The two officials signed an agreement for the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service to join two of Europol’s Focal Points1: FP Phoenix targets trafficking in human beings ...
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 21 September, 2016 | Topics:
Europe & Eurasia, Events, Featured Event, Government Offices, Human Rights, News, U.S. Agencies
| Tags: Diplomatic Security, Europol, Migrant smuggling, Trafficking in Human Beings
U.S. Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons Randy Berry was in Amsterdam for Europride 2016 ! Here he is speaking at a U.S. Mission reception co-hosted with the City of Amsterdam and EuroPride organizers
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By U.S. Mission Netherlands | 10 August, 2016 | Topics:
Featured Event, Gender Issues, Human Rights, News
| Tags: Europride, LGBTI, Randy Berry
