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Royal distinction for Mr. Drs. Mellouki Cadat-Lampe

Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau

On Friday evening, November 28, 2025, Mayor Michel Rog presented the Royal decoration of Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau to Mr. B.Y.J.M.A. (Mellouki) Cadat-Lampe from Overveen. Mr. Cadat-Lampe received this decoration during his farewell ceremony at the Movisie Foundation in Amsterdam.

Mr. Cadat-Lampe received the decoration for his exceptional and long-standing commitment to a just and inclusive society. Since the 1990s, he has been active as a volunteer, administrator, and liaison in the areas of diversity, emancipation, anti-discrimination, and social cohesion.

In his speech, Mayor Rog praised him as a man "who doesn't talk about participation, but embodies it." In 1997, Cadat-Lampe was one of the forces behind the foundation of the world's first Online Discrimination Reporting Center and played a key role in establishing the Makassarplein community in Amsterdam, which restored the livability of a vulnerable neighbourhood. He has been a board member of the Indische Buurt Neighbourhood Museum since 2017 and of the Haarlem World Cuisine Foundation since 2021, where he is committed to connecting people from diverse backgrounds.

Mr. Cadat-Lampe also worked for over 24 years at the Movisie Foundation, where he focused as a researcher and project leader on themes such as inclusion, equality, and civic participation. Colleagues praise him as a dedicated mentor and confidant who "makes everyone feel they matter."

After the death of his friends and colleagues Ronald Eissens and Suzette Bronkhorst, the founders of the Magenta Foundation, Cadat-Lampe took charge of their legacy. He ensured that their archive was preserved at the Amsterdam City Archives. He also advocates annually for the Ronald & Suzette Magenta Award, which recognizes initiatives against online hate.

This award publicly recognizes Mr. Cadat-Lampe's tireless commitment to human rights, equality, and connection.

© Source: news item from the municipality of Bloemendaal

Ro & SuZ Magenta Award 2025

Read all about Iman Atta,

Tell MAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks), the winner of the Ro & SuZ Magenta Award 2025

Call for nominations for the Ro & SuZ Magenta Award 2025

Each year on the 26th of January, Ronald Eissens' birthday, we put out a call for nominations of organizations that are committed to Bringing the Online In Line with Human Rights.

Submissions should come with a cover letter*, in which the nominator explains why the work of the person and/or organization stands out and is innovative in contributing to Bringing the Online In Line with Human Rights.

How to nominate?
INACH-members can download our Call for nominations, with Questionnaire, to help you create the *cover letter.

You can find more information on the Ro & SuZ Magenta Award Presentation page.

The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2025.

The inventory of full Magenta Archive is ready

Jaap Bronkhorst Felicitatie Ro en Suz 1 okt 1993, Start Magenta

Full archive

The searchable and full Magenta archive is now online, with scans, on the website of the City Archive of Amsterdam (Stadsarchief Gemeente Amsterdam)
Feel free to request more scans from the City Archive Website and to read about Magenta's history, and Ronald and Suzettes work during the early days of the internet.

Ro & SuZ Magenta Award 2024

Read all about our two Laureates:

Tomer Aldubi & Nir Kaplan, FOA and Rafal Pankowski & Anna Tatar, NAA, this year's two winning organizations of the Ro & SuZ Magenta Award.

Professional photographs of the Ro & SuZ Award 2024 and Conference are made by Claudia Kamergorodski. Thank you Claudia!

The Video-footage of the Ro & SuZ Award 2024 is also online.

Still facing harassment

Dr. Panayote Dimitras, the winner of Ro & SuZ Award 2023, is still facing legal and bureaucratic harassment by the Greek government. As a result, Dr. Panayote Dimitras can not travel to the INACH Conference of September 2024. Read our update on the situation of Dr. Panayote Dimitras.

Quiz

How well do you know the History of Human Rights in 'the Low Countries'? Our Quiz —In Dutch— focuses on the Netherlands and Belgium. No tracking, no cookies!

We have to continue

It doesn't make sense to just wonder, what would Ronald and Suzette have done? and ...do nothing ourselves. That's like getting good advice, and not following up on it.

So we created a page about October 7th 2023. Since the atrocities on October 7, there is an online global battlefield, spreading antisemitic content like wildfire. We see fake news, denial, conspiracy theories, hate-mongering, celebration of violence, inciting content and dehumanization of groups of people.

We need to address this. The Magenta page about October 7th 2023 contains a list of more than 100 links to October 7 Witness Reports, to Reports of (by far the largest amount) escalating antisemitism and (other) hatred and a section of links to background and future. Ofcourse it is not complete. Far from. The situation is very complex and so is any possible solution.

To lighten things up a bit, there is a Ro & Suz Cartoon and a memory.