Today Is a New Day, a civil society group best known for technological tools designed to empower voters, has become the first Slovenian organisation to win the Dutch Embassy in Ljubljana's award for human rights, the Embassy Tulip.

Ambassador Johan Verboom praised its innovative use of technology to enable citizens to play an active role in democratic processes as he handed out the award on 8 December.

The organisation has been active since 2013 in developing digital solutions for political participation, transparency and responsibility.

He highlighted Parlameter, a tool tracking the work of MPs, as particularly innovative in contributing to the accountability of politicians.

Award ceremony for the Embassy Tulip Award.

The Embassy Tulip is a local award - derived from the Dutch Foreign Ministry's Human Rights Tulip - for outstanding and courageous human rights defenders.

It allows individual Dutch embassies around the world to honour local grassroots human rights defenders to help them inspire people and each other.

Today Is a New Day was nominated together with the 8 March Institute and the People's Protest Assembly.

The winning organisation received a statuette and €5,000 in prize money.

"The last two years have shown that human rights and the rule of law are not a given and must be continuously nurtured and upheld," the organisation said in a written statement.