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Tomorrow we begin celebrating 25 years of pride in Amsterdam. Albeit a little different to the traditional street parties across the city. A number of small activities will still take place in the Netherlands during the week and Pride walk will go ahead on Saturday 7 August. Pride Walk is one of the…

How do you stimulate responsible behaviour towards sexual and reproductive health (SHR) in teens and young adults. Especially in societies where taboos make it difficult to discuss sex. This Dutch initiative motivates young women and adolescent girls to make positive choices.

June is Pride Month, which means across the globe LGBTIQ+ events will celebrate sexual diversity in all its extravaganza. For more than 50 years, Pride has contributed to the acceptance of the rainbow community in the face of discrimination and violence. We have come a long way, but there is still a lot more work to…

Each year, Pride events light up cities around the world in a celebration of diversity, freedom, and love in all its forms. In the Netherlands, Pride is more than a party, it is a statement of solidarity and a continuation of a decades-long commitment to equal rights for LGBTIQ+ people everywhere.

Since 2001, when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, we’ve proudly celebrated the freedom to marry whomever you love. More than 20,000 same-sex marriages have since been registered here, and over 30 countries have followed suit – a…

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the stark difference in access to quality healthcare in various regions. In line with yesterday’s World Health Day theme ‘Building a fairer, healthier world’ we were inspired to highlight this poignant issue.

In the race to vaccinate people across the globe, researchers from Amsterdam have cracked the code that explains one of the most troublesome symptoms of COVID-19. And through international collaboration, they have potentially made a breakthrough in treating the disease with an already approved drug.

NL Special Envoy for Vaccines Hans Schikan on trends and developments in the Dutch and global LSH market and the biotech scale-up mission to Boston and New York.

The past five years have seen a 29% increase in the number of female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. However, only 36% of all entrepreneurs in the Netherlands are women. With initiatives popping up across the country, female empowerment is slowly but surely getting stronger. The next TOPX Summit will take place…