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February 8, 2020

Ruling by Dutch court 'stops government attempts to spy on the poor'

A Dutch court has ordered an immediate halt to a digital benefit fraud detection tool targeted at poor neighbourhoods in the Netherlands because it violated human rights norms.
December 22, 2019

Netherlands court decision to protect human rights from climate change welcomed

A landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the Netherlands requires the State to take more ambitious climate action in order to protect human rights from the adverse effects of climate change.
April 8, 2019

Netherlands must address rising antisemitism and Islamophobia, says UN expert

The Government of the Netherlands must reinforce its achievements in upholding freedom of religion or belief, to address emerging challenges like rising antisemitism and Islamophobia, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the issue, Ahmed Shaheed.
February 13, 2019

Shell to face complicity charges in execution of protesters in Nigeria

The oil company is accused of instigating human rights violations committed by the Nigerian government against the Ogoni people in the 1990s.
August 14, 2018

Youth pilgrimage to connect local to global at WCC anniversary

'On the Move is the theme, as 12 Dutch and 12 international youth gather for a Youth Pilgrimage in the Netherlands on 21-23 August 2018.
July 7, 2018

Poll finds Europeans reject US nuclear weapons on own soil

People in European countries that host US nuclear weapons are overwhelmingly in favour of removing them, a poll has found.
October 6, 2013

Dutch social care shift hits disabled people’s rights

The Netherlands government plans to slash social care funding and put pressure on frail elderly and other disabled people to do ‘voluntary’ work in return for any help they get, the newspaper Volkskrant reported. Austerity measures have already taken a heavy toll, and are hugely unpopular.
July 5, 2011

Netherlands held responsible for three Srebrenica deaths

The Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, a court in The Hague has ruled.
December 21, 2010

Dutch synod tries to heal centuries-old Protestant divisions

A gathering to improve relations between the many Protestant denominations in the Netherlands has taken place on the site of an earlier historic synod.
March 1, 2010

Dutch gay Catholics challenge exclusion from mass

Large numbers of gay Roman Catholics attempted to participate in mass yesterday in the Dutch city of Den Bosch. The attempt followed Church decisions to exclude gay people from the sacrament.