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  Summertime

  After the dramatically lost final of the Football World Cup in South Africa and Wimbledon there is traditionally the Tour de France to remind us of the impending holiday season. The new Hungarian Government and Parliament, however, are working around the clock this relatively quiet season to correct – as they see it – the mismanagement of the previous Government.

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  Budapest Pride Festival 2010

  This year is the fifteenth anniversary of the Budapest Pride Festival.

• Wanted: human rights defenders

  Nominations are now being accepted for the Human Rights Defenders Tulip 2010. This human rights prize is presented by the Dutch government to a man or woman who has shown exceptional courage in protecting and promoting the rights of fellow citizens. The award ceremony will take place on 10 December, International Human Rights Day, in the Ridderzaal (Knights’ Hall) in The Hague. Lees meer...

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• Ministers to meet in the Netherlands to champion internet freedom

  Foreign ministers will be meeting later this year in the Netherlands to decide on measures to strengthen freedom of expression on the internet. That is the outcome of a conference on the subject which was held in Paris on 8 July. It was attended by around 75 representatives of governments, business, international organisations and human rights organisations.

• Verhagen urges swift ratification of cluster munitions convention

  In a speech to the House of Representatives, Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Verhagen urged the Netherlands to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions as soon as possible. The Convention bans the production, possession and use of cluster munitions.

• Doing business with respect for human rights

  Protecting and promoting human rights is not only the responsibility of the government. Businesses, too, are accepting that they have corporate moral obligations.

• Identification and repatriation of victims of airline disaster completed

  The identification and repatriation of the Dutch victims of the airline disaster in Tripoli has now been completed. The last three were flown into the Netherlands this morning. The four members of the National Forensic Identification Team (LTFO) who were still in Libya arrived home on the same flight.

• European Union to take measures against child labour

  The European Union is to introduce a package of measures to eliminate child labour. This was decided by the European Ministers of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg today, in response to an initiative by the Netherlands.

• Netherlands pleased that aggression is to be prosecuted at international level

  The Netherlands is pleased that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been granted new powers to prosecute the crime of aggression. The agreement emerged from a conference reviewing the Rome Statute, which forms the legal basis for the ICC.