Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
The statutes of the NHC define the objective of the organization as the promotion of an international and societal rule of law under which human rights can be fully realized. The NHC sets out to reinforce and support the activities of international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations in conflict prevention, human rights protection, upholding of the rule of law, and promotion of democracy. The statutes specify that particular attention is given to the region covered by and to the work of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the follow-up organization of the inter-governmental conference which led to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act.
EU Legislative Interests
Several EU- country Human Rights Dialogues, Art. 7 and Rule of Law discussions, Human Rights Defenders, EU pre-accession, Justice & Home Affairs; Anti-Corruption; Civic Space; Democracy and Human Rights
Communication Activities
Meetings with policy makers, social media campaigns, webinars, publications, training and advocacy for and with human rights defenders (see for example our RARE programme, and other activities at www.nhc.nl)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
Breed Mensenrechten Overleg (https://www.bmoweb.nl/) EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (https://eu-russia-csf.org/) Partos (https://www.partos.nl/) European Partnership for Democracy (https://epd.eu/) Civic Solidarity Forum (https://www.civicsolidarity.org/) A full list can be found in our Annual report: https://www.nhc.nl/assets/uploads/2024/10/RT2432-StichtingNHC-jaarrekening-definitief-41182679-2023.pdf
Organisation Members
Please see: https://www.nhc.nl/partners-networks-funders/