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Article: Imprisoned in a marriage? Contact Femmes for Freedom
Many women in the Netherlands are locked in a marriage; under Dutch law, they are divorced, but according to their religion, they are still married. A special helpline for such women was launched this week - Femmes for Freedom. Being...
Article: Fifty years of Papuans in the Netherlands
Their lives are in the Netherlands but their hearts are back in Indonesian West Papua. Fifty years ago, around 500 Papuans came to the Netherlands. They refused to live under Indonesian rule after the former Dutch colony fell in Indonesian...
Article: No customers for Dutch asylum centre in Angola
The Dutch centre for failed asylum seekers in Angola has cost one million euros. It was supposed to house underage Angolan asylum seekers repatriated from the Netherlands. It was opened in 2003, but has hardly been used. Immigration and...
Article: ‘When I came back, the Netherlands had completely changed’
“Why exactly hadn’t I felt at home in the Netherlands for years? Why couldn’t I fit in?” Froukje Santing didn’t recognise the Netherlands anymore after 17 years abroad as a correspondent in Turkey. She was...
Article: Headscarves in the pool
A cleaning lady wearing a headscarf is scrubbing the floor at a swimming pool in The Hague, while two elderly ladies in bathing suits are showering. It's a combination of cultures seen in one picture at an exhibition in The Hague...
Article: Fiddling the immigration figures
How many immigrants are arriving in the Netherlands these days? That is a politically loaded question. In fact, an opposition MP recently accused the government of fiddling the numbers to make the number of immigrants look larger. At first...
Article: Dutch masterpieces seal bond with Turkey
Several museums in Istanbul are holding major exhibitions of famous Dutch paintings to mark 400 years of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands. Ties between the two countries go back to 1612, when Cornelis Haga presented...
Article: Cleric did say “Jews are descendants of apes and pigs”
“I will tell you the truth about the fight between us and Jews who are the enemies of God and the descendants of apes and pigs.” That is the correct translation of a statement the controversial British-Palestinian Muslim cleric...
Article: Netherlands under fire thanks to Wilders
When a country threatens to ban Dutch tulips, you know something is wrong. That’s just what's happening now, as Poland and other Eastern European countries express their anger about a Dutch website. Geert Wilders’ Freedom...
Article: EU anger at ‘xenophobic’ Dutch website
A Europe-wide row has broken out over a website launched by the populist Freedom Party. On the site, people are asked to “tell their stories” about trouble caused by East European migrants to the Netherlands. The European...
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