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Deadline: 15 July 2015

http://www.humanrightstulip.nl/nominate

Countries: All

DESCRIPTION
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Dutch Government organizes a grants award program every year to provide funding of up to €100,000 to courageous organizations or individuals promoting human rights in innovative ways.

The Human Rights Tulip is the Dutch government’s human rights award. Foreign minister Bert Koenders will present the prize and the bronze tulip-shaped statue to the winner on 10 December, International Human Rights Day.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs works with Hivos to select and support the winner.

The prize money is €100,000. It enables the winner to further develop or expand the scale of their human rights work, benefiting more people, in as many places as possible.

Please note that Organizations, collectives and individuals who consider themselves eligible for this award can nominate themselves directly. You can also nominate another individual, collective or organization. Nominations can be made by filling out the (online) nomination form and sending it to tulip@hivos.org.

Nomination can not exceed 5 pages in length.

In 2014 the Human Rights Tulip was awarded to Mideast Youth, an organisation that builds online platforms to give a voice to people working to improve human rights. It is using the prize money to build a new platform that human rights defenders and their organisations can use to improve the presentation of information, work together more effectively and reach a wider audience.