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Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Almost 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 10 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7, 8 and 9). In this weekend, and next weekend, there will
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Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Almost 10.000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 9 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6/7 and 8). There will be an important protest occurring this Saturday
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I have great respect for Gary Younge and his work. I even have some appreciation for his attempt to interview Richard Spencer, one of the leading figures in the so-called “Alt-Right” (which, it needs to be stressed again, is basically newspeak for “neo-nazi”) movement. Younge expresses his reluctance to engage in a conversation with this person: “ordinarily giving someone like
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Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Over 8,000 people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here is number 8 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6/7). Even when racism sells, schools shouldn’t buy it. Despite having
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Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Seven thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here are numbers 6 and 7 (also read numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). 6. Utrecht anti discrimination initiative reveals suspicious flaws in
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For more than ten years Jeffry Pondaag, chairman of the Komite Utang Kehormatan Belanda (Foundation Committee of Dutch Debts of Honour), has been successfully suing the Dutch State together with lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld and victims of the colonial war in Indonesia. Due to these lawsuits it has become increasingly difficult for the Dutch state to hush up the colonial violence
Verder lezen Reageren?Last year Doorbraak activist Jennifer van Leijen initiated a campaign to stop the Dutch government from subsidizing blackface (Zwarte Piet or Black Pete) on children’s television. Thousand people already signed. Van Leijen regularly writes updates. Here’s the fifth one. (You can also still read the first, second, third and fourth update.) It has been reported that the NTR television company
Verder lezen Reageren?In an earlier article I reported what the stance of the mayor of Utrecht, Jan van Zanen, is towards an annual racist parade with Black Petes in which he takes part: he has no opinion on the subject. Van Zanen also stated that the positions of various human rights bodies who have unanimously condemned the blackfacing component within the parade,
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The University of Utrecht has its own academic section for human rights research and expertise: it is called the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and they host various workshops, lectures, and seminars. In 2016, this human rights section hosted the AHRI conference. You might expect that an academic institution that believes in human rights would believe in applying them
Verder lezen Reageren?The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights is an institution which exists to expose, monitor and protect human rights, promoting compliance (including equal treatment) into practice, policies and legislation, and seeking to increase the awareness of human rights in the Netherlands. However, to be able to increase awareness of human rights, you need to first understand what human rights are. In
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