Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.
🧡 We speak out against violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics around the world. Discrimination and violence are never acceptable – anywhere, ever.
🌈 This year, we celebrate 25 years of marriage equality in the Netherlands. And we are not done - the fight for equality remains a continuous effort.
💪 We stand for equal rights for all LGBTIQ+ persons, at home and worldwide.
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The Embassy will be closed on Thursday 14 May 2026.
If you have consular questions, the Netherlands Worldwide contact centre can always be reached by phone, email, or WhatsApp: 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
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For more information about the Embassy closing days for 2026, check the website
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Mounira Al Solh has yet another big exhibition in the UK.
'A Land As Big As Her Skin' is on at @arnolfiniarts in Bristol until 24 May. Supported by @mondriaanfonds .
This Zutphen-based artist, originally from Lebanon, has had various exhibitions in the UK in recent years: in 2022 at BALTIC in Gateshead, in 2023 as part of Artes Mundi in Cardiff, and in 2025 her work was exhibited at Liverpool Biennial.
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Bevrijdingsdag. Liberation Day.
On 5 May, every year, in the Netherlands we celebrate the absence of war.
On 5 May we celebrate the freedom we have been enjoying in the Netherlands since 1945. We celebrate both the absence of war and our life in a democratic constitutional state, and the fact that it enables us to live in freedom.
During the day, festivities are held throughout the Netherlands, such as freedom meals & liberation festivals throughout the country.
Each year, the celebration of Liberation Day is brought to a festive close with the Fifth of May Concert on the River Amstel in Amsterdam.
📸 Credit: Ben Houdijk. 5 mei concert 2025
Today is the Dutch national commemoration of Remembrance Day.
During the national commemoration of Remembrance Day, we remember all – civilians and soldiers – who have been killed or murdered in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or anywhere else in the world in war situations or during peacekeeping operations since the outbreak of the Second World War.
Ever since the end of the Second World War, the Netherlands has been commemorating its dead on 4 May.
As from 1961, the Dutch victims of the Second World War are remembered together with Dutch victims of other conflicts, wars and peacekeeping missions that have taken place since the outbreak of the Second World War in the Netherlands.
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Tijdens de Nationale Herdenking herdenken we allen – burgers en militairen – die in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden of waar ook ter wereld zijn omgekomen of vermoord; zowel tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de koloniale oorlog in Indonesië, als in oorlogssituaties en bij vredesoperaties daarna.
📸 Credit: Paul Tolenaar. Herdenking op de Dam, 2025.
On World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, we honour journalists and media workers who report – often at great personal risk.
🎙️ Freedom of expression – online and offline – is a human rights priority for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Crucial for this right is free, independent, reliable and pluralist media landscapes and journalists and media workers that can report in safety.
📰 Free, independent media are also essential for open public debate and for countering disinformation.
📺️ Worldwide, journalists are increasingly threatened, obstructed, detained or even murdered for doing their job.
🎥 We work internationally through the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC), and at home through initiatives like PersVeilig, where police, prosecutors and the journalism sector work together to improve journalists’ safety and protect press freedom.
📷️ credit: Nikita Kotrelev
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Dutch author Raoul de Jong is in the UK this week, to promote his book Jaguarman, which is now available in English. On 5 and 6 May, @raouldejong_jaguarman will be in Sheffield. He will speak at independent book shop @labiblioteka and at @theuniversityofsheffield .
On 7 and 8 May, Raoul will be in London.
Tickets for public events in Sheffield and London (all free to attend):
📕 https://labiblioteka.co/event/jaguarman/#tribe-tickets__tickets-form
📕 /e/voices-that-still-speak-redefining-postcolonial-narratives-tickets-1988394353036
Roaul has been invited to the UK by the two universities in England where Dutch is studies: University of Sheffield and University College London. The trip is supported by the Dutch Foundation for Literature, as part of the #newdutchwriting campaign.
@raouldejong_jaguarman is translated from Dutch by John Eyck and accompanied by illustrations throughout by @e_tomasetti . The UK publisher is @hoperoadpublishing .
Born to a Dutch mother and a Surinamese father he knows very little about, Raoul is barely thirty years old when he receives an email: I AM LOOKING FOR MY SON RAOUL DE JONG ☺☺☺. When Raoul meets his father, one of the stories he gets told is that an ancestors, several generations back, was an enslaved African medicine man, who supposedly had the ability to transform himself into a jaguar. This story sends Raoul on a quest to the streets of Paramaribo, to the heart of the Surinamese jungle and to the house of a voodoo priestess.
Twenty-six amazing authors from all over Europe are coming together for one weekend in London! Come and listen to their views on the world we live in.
The European Writers Festival in the British Library in London, on 16 and 17 May, opens with a conversation about dramatically life-changing events that inspired prize-winning books. The three authors on stage are Wendy Erskine from Ireland, Fiston Mwanza Mujila from Austria and Jente Posthuma from the Netherlands.
It might sound a tad heavy to start a festival on a Saturday morning at 11am with a conversation about immense traumas faced by a family in the Netherlands, violent political upheaval in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and sexual assault in Northern Ireland. But we have been assured these authors can talk about these heavy topics with lots of wit and humour.
The rest of the festival line-up is also impressive. Discover the full programme on /news/european-writers-2026/
This festival is organised by EUNIC London, a network of London-based embassies and cultural institutes of EU member states. @euniclondon@eurolitnet@britishlibrary
The Embassy will be closed on Monday 4 May and Tuesday 5 May 2026.
If you have consular questions, the Netherlands Worldwide contact centre can always be reached by phone, email, or WhatsApp: 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
▶️ herlandsworldwide.nl/contact
For more information about the Embassy closing days, check the website
▶️ herlandsandyou.nl/web/united-kingdom/about-us/closing-days
Pupils of the Dutch Regenboogschool prepared with Military Attaché LTCOL Stefan Klabbers for their participation in the Dutch Annual National Remembrance Ceremony on 4 May.
They discussed what understanding the past means to them, and then drafted their own poems.
Join us to hear their thoughts this Monday.
🌷 7pm UK time
🌷 4 May 2026
🌷 Netherlands Field of Honour, Mill Hill, 89 Milespit Hill, London, NW7 2RR
We commemorate Dutch civilians and military personnel who died during wars and peacekeeping operations since World War II in the Netherlands and anywhere in the world.
19:00 Reception with coffee/tea
19:50 Final call to walk towards the Netherlands’ Field of Honour
19:55 Start of the ceremony
20:00 Two minutes silence
20.02 National Anthem by @britt.lenting
20.30 End of ceremony
👑 Today is King's Day!
Today we celebrate King’s Day (Koningsdag), our Dutch national day and the birthday of His Majesty King Willem-Alexander.
Please note that the Embassy is closed today, Monday 27 April.
If you have consular questions, the Netherlands Worldwide contact centre can always be reached by phone, email, or WhatsApp: 24hrs a day, 7 days a week.
▶️ herlandsworldwide.nl/contact
For more information about the Embassy closing days, check the website
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