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Netherlands Mission in Geneva

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Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇦🇼🇨🇼🇸🇽 to the UN, WTO & other intl. organisations | Ambassador: Erica Schouten

Geneva, Switzerland Katılım Ocak 2013
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.@UNGeneva’s "Not a Woman’s Job?" photo exhibition celebrates women leading countries, societies, and communities while challenging stereotypes and breaking barriers. 🇳🇱Proud to have contributed with 📸 stories of Minister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan and Devika Partiman.
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WTO
WTO@wto·
From its origins as a house of labour to its role today as the home of the WTO, the Centre William Rappard has brought people together for 100 years. On 1 July, the WTO and the @ilo marked the building’s centenary, celebrating its legacy of dialogue and multilateralism.
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International Labour Organization
The new @ilo Convention No. 193 on decent work in the platform economy is a landmark step. Adopted in June 2026, it helps ensure technological innovation and new business models go hand in hand with workers’ rights, fair competition and sustainable growth. #DecentWork
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EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters
Full 🇪🇺support for this resolution. Freedom of expression is facing growing challenges and we welcome that the resolution reflects evolving threats, incl the manipulation of information online, disinformation, hate speech, technology-facilitated gender-based violence. #HC62
UN Human Rights Council@UN_HRC

#HRC62 | Draft resolution A/HRC/62/L.12/Rev.1 on freedom of opinion and expression was ADOPTED without a vote.

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Full 🇪🇺support for this resolution, which focuses on care & support systems as a prerequisite for gender equality. Investing in the care economy is essential to dismantle structural barriers such as patriarchal social norms, gender stereotypes & unequal power relations. #HRC62
UN Human Rights Council@UN_HRC

#HRC62 | Draft resolution A/HRC/62/L.16/Rev.1 on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls in care and support systems was ADOPTED without a vote.

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EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters
Full 🇪🇺 support for this resolution. Child, early & forced marriage is a human rights violation that disproportionately affects women & girls. It undermines their rights, disrupts their education, limits their opportunities & impacts their health & well-being. #HRC62
UN Human Rights Council@UN_HRC

#HRC62 | Draft resolution A/HRC/62/L.24/Rev.1 (as orally revised) on child, early and forced marriage was ADOPTED without a vote.

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Everyone deserves the freedom to choose if, when and whom to marry. Since 2013, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 has helped lead global efforts at the UN Human Rights Council to #EndChildMarriage. A new resolution has been adopted to advance action against this #humanrightsviolation (1/2)
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EU at the UN - Geneva #MultilateralismMatters
ADOPTED: #HRC62 adopts the EU-led resolution on Eritrea, renewing the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for 1 year. We encourage Eritrea to take up the genuine offers for constructive cooperation by the SR & @UNHumanRights to improve all aspects of human rights in the country.
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Pleased to welcome 🇳🇱Minister of Digital Economy Willemijn Aerdts @StasDigi in Geneva for the Global #AIDialogue. International cooperation between governments and other crucial stakeholders such as academia, the private sector, and civil society strengthens potential of #AI.
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Children deserve to grow up safe, also in the digital world. The Netherlands 🇳🇱 has joined the Coalition for #ChildrensRights and Protection in the Age of #AI - launched at @ITU Global #AIDialogue - to help safeguard children's rights in the development and deployment of AI.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Doreen Bogdan-Martin@ITUSecGen·
Today’s children are among the first to grow up with #AI built into their everyday lives. Our shared responsibility is to ensure these technologies are safe, empowering and designed with children’s rights and well-being at their core. #AIdialogue
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Volker Türk
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AI is about power – over data, markets, resources, and information. Human rights are the check on that power and the path to ensuring AI serves people, not the other way around. ohchr.org/en/statements-…
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Today, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution "Freedom of Opinion and Expression" by consensus. #KingdomNL is proud that the resolution reflects contemporary challenges to this right and calls for enhanced investigations on violations against journalists. #HRC62
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UN Human Rights Council
#HRC62 | Draft resolution A/HRC/62/L.25/Rev.1 (as orally revised) on the human rights implications of the obstruction and denial of humanitarian access and threats to the safety of humanitarian personnel in armed conflict was ADOPTED without a vote.
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"To be a journalist in Gaza means living the very story you are covering." Ahmed, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza, shared his powerful message at the Human Rights Council during a discussion on protecting journalists & ensuring accountability for violations against the press.
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