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The Dutch government supports the admission of additional refugees who arrive in the EU by boat. This is what the state secretary for security and justice, Klaas Dijkhof, stated on April 22 during a parliamentary...
The Dutch House of Representatives has expressed support for a more humane European asylum policy, and in so doing has scrapped the plan of right-wing ruling party VVD to abolish the European asylum policy and close the European borders once and for all.
There are a few hundred jihadists and a few thousand supporters of jihadism in the Netherlands, the Dutch intelligence service (AIVD) writes in its 2014 annual report. The AIVD cautions against the threat of attacks...
A German with Indian ancestors has filed a suit against racist police practices. The 40-year-old man was sitting in a train on his way home when the police asked him to present his ID card. No other passenger in the...
Rejecting visually impaired students from an educational program isn't permitted in the Netherlands. It happened to a young woman who started a case with the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights on account of discrimination against her.
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Ten organizations are calling for the immediate end of a new mega prison project in Haren, Belgium.
New safeguards to help protect the rights of the disabled are included in amendments recently adopted by the Lithuanian Parliament to reform incapacity regulations.
The study "EU Member States under surveillance," published by FIDH, ranks 28 EU member states based on 67 human rights indicators and 17 environmental indicators. This report is a practical guide that aims to...
In the Netherlands there's a big difference between the number of cases of discrimination in the police records and the number of settlements by the Public Prosecution Service. A government study should shed light on how this is possible.
The city of Utrecht is proud to be the first human rights city of the Netherlands. But in the case of Roma, Sinti and Travelers, the city has an extinction policy that will inevitably result in ending the Roma, Sinti and Traveler lifestyle in Utrecht.
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