{"id":18973,"date":"2021-10-14T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimd.org\/defending-democracy-at-home-and-abroad\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T03:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:25:59","slug":"defending-democracy-at-home-and-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nimd.org\/nl\/defending-democracy-at-home-and-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"De democratie verdedigen in binnen- en buitenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tijdens de tweede editie van de The Hague Democracy Drinks leidde Lousewies van der Laan, directeur van Transparency International Nederland, een levendige discussie over de rol van Nederland in het verdedigen van de democratie in binnen- en buitenland, met een oproep om samen te werken aan het verdedigen van de democratische waarden die vandaag de dag in de wereld worden bedreigd.<\/p>\n<p>\"Het is crunch time nu,\" vertelde Lousewies het publiek in het Nutshuis Juni Caf\u00e9 op 9 oktober. \"Als je kijkt naar wat er in de wereld gebeurt, moeten we samenwerken. Dit is het moment waarop mensen het zat zijn en het gevoel hebben dat ze een verschil kunnen maken, en we moeten ze laten zien dat we dat kunnen door samen te werken aan concrete oplossingen.\"<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12154 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nimd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DD_middle_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Aanbevelingen voor de overheid<\/h3>\n<p>Lousewies drong er bij de Nederlandse regering op aan om een speciaal democratiseringsfonds op te richten om ervoor te zorgen dat kleinere NGO's en maatschappelijke organisaties die zich inzetten voor mensenrechten en democratie toegang krijgen tot de financiering die ze nodig hebben. Ze wees ook op bedreigingen voor de rechtsstaat in Nederland zelf.<\/p>\n<p>\"We lijken als Nederlanders heel goed in het bevorderen van democratie in het buitenland en in het doen van alle goede dingen, maar als we intern kijken, wat is hier dan aan de hand?\" vroeg ze, verwijzend naar recente <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/2021\/10\/almost-1000-dutch-nationals-are-named-in-the-pandora-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">onthullingen over de financi\u00ebn van politici<\/a> in de Pandora Papers, en het schandaal eerder dit jaar over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchnews.nl\/news\/2021\/01\/dutch-government-collapses-in-fall-out-from-child-benefit-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">onjuiste beschuldigingen van fraude met kinderopvangtoeslag<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12143 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/nimd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/DD_pic2-Recovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In de omgang met repressieve en autocratische regimes over de hele wereld moeten regeringen er volgens haar voor zorgen dat hun daden hun waarden weerspiegelen. \"Corruptie is zo'n belangrijk ingredi\u00ebnt in het vernietigen van samenlevingen, in het ondermijnen van het vertrouwen van mensen,\" zei ze.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Je kunt niet beweren dat je de democratie steunt als je corruptie en verkiezingsfraude accepteert.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thijs Berman, uitvoerend directeur van het Nederlands Instituut voor Meerpartijendemocratie, zei dat er meer samenhang moet zijn bij het promoten van democratische waarden in het buitenland. Hij zei <a href=\"https:\/\/nimd.org\/nl\/lessons-from-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">de mislukkingen in Afghanistan<\/a> liet zien wat er gebeurde toen sommige kernwaarden van de democratie werden losgelaten, onder andere door buitenlandse donoren die ervoor kozen hun ogen te sluiten en corrupte lokale leiders op hun plaats te houden.<\/p>\n<p>\"Je kunt niet beweren dat je de democratie steunt als je corruptie en verkiezingsfraude accepteert,\" zei hij tijdens het evenement dat was georganiseerd door het Nederlands Instituut voor Meerpartijendemocratie en het <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nederlands Helsinki Comit\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>De openingswoorden werden gevolgd door levendige bijdragen van het publiek, waaronder ambassadeurs, journalisten, studenten, beleidsexperts en leden van maatschappelijke organisaties.<\/p>\n<p>Volg ons op Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreNIMD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WeAreNIMD<\/a> voor updates over de volgende editie van Democracy Drinks.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Over Democracy Drinks<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Democracy Drinks is het initiatief van <a href=\"https:\/\/defenddemocracy.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">De democratie verdedigen<\/a>dat in 2018 een maandelijks informeel netwerkevenement in Brussel lanceerde om collega-denkers, voorvechters, organisatoren en enthousiastelingen in pro-democratische ruimten samen te brengen. Sindsdien hebben Democracy Drinks over de hele wereld plaatsgevonden, waaronder in Washington DC, Berlijn en Kathmandu.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tijdens de tweede editie van de The Hague Democracy Drinks heeft Lousewies van der Laan, directeur van Transparency International Nederland, een levendige discussie aangezwengeld over de rol van Nederland bij het verdedigen van de democratie in binnen- en buitenland, met een oproep tot actie om samen op te komen voor de democratische waarden die vandaag de dag worden bedreigd in de wereld. \"Het is ... <a href=\"https:\/\/nimd.org\/nl\/defending-democracy-at-home-and-abroad\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"countries":[],"theme":[],"class_list":["post-18973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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