”I think there is still a lot of work to be done worldwide to respect women and treat them as they should. A woman is not a subordinate to man. A girl should have the same opportunities for development as a boy.” ”In our country (I think/hope) this is already well arranged. But there are … Read more
Feb 14, 2024 at 1:07 PM Update: 20 minutes ago Billions of euros to combat discrimination and inequality of opportunity in secondary vocational education are not being spent properly. But any major policy adjustments will have to wait until there is a new cabinet, outgoing education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf said on Wednesday. The Ministry of … Read more
Jan 9, 2024 at 11:07 PM Update: 6 hours ago Former winners of the program The smartest person have spoken out against racist reactions to rapper Akwasi’s participation in the program. Because of these reactions, broadcaster KRO-NCRV immediately stopped using social media platform X. The winners of the earlier seasons of The smartest person posted … Read more
Jan 9, 2024 at 11:07 PM Update: an hour ago Former winners of the program The smartest person have spoken out against racist reactions to rapper Akwasi’s participation in the program. Because of these reactions, broadcaster KRO-NCRV immediately stopped using social media platform X. The winners of the earlier seasons of The smartest person posted … Read more
Jan 2, 2024 at 1:10 PM Update: an hour ago Anyone who wants to report discrimination via the free national telephone number 0800-0880 must be patient for a few extra days. The telecom supplier that was supposed to activate the number on January 1 appears to have stopped working. This is what the national reporting … Read more
Dec 18, 2023 at 7:02 AM Update: an hour ago Eliminating discrimination in youth care is difficult. A “white gaze” within the sector is one of the causes. This is the first exploratory study into the problem. The report has already been viewed by NU.nl. “Little is done to prevent discrimination and racism,” says researcher … Read more
Women earn on average 13 percent less per hour than men. This is partly because men rise faster within a company. But women also receive less money than their male colleagues for exactly the same work. Over an entire year, women in the Netherlands even earn 36 percent less than men. The main cause of … Read more
Oct 26, 2023 at 11:48 PM Update: 28 minutes ago A large bronze statue of North American General Robert E. Lee has been secretly melted down. The statue was located in Charlottesville in the United States and played a role in protests that left one person dead and 35 injured in 2017. On August 12, … Read more
20 Sep 2023 at 09:34 Secretary-General António Guterres wants countries to work on compensation for the history of slavery. According to him, this is appropriate, because the system has caused enormous damage on a human and economic level. Guterres writes in a report that no country has yet fully accounted for its own role in … Read more
Door onze economieredactie 09 mei 2023 om 11:54 The American investment bank Goldman Sachs has reached a settlement of 215 million dollars (196 million euros) in a long-running lawsuit about the unequal pay of men and women. No less than 2,800 female employees had filed a case for systematic underpayment. A discrimination complaint filed by … Read more