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6 days, 18 hours ago

Dutch MP will propose banning children under 15 from using social media

NL Times

Dutch political party D66 is advocating for a minimum age of 15 for social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. “Tech giants are harming children’s health because social media is deliberately designed to be addictive,” said D66 parliamentarian Hanneke van der Werf, according to RTL." “The Netherlands doesn’t let cigarette manufacturers determine and enforce age restrictions,” Van der …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Many councils are failing to meet the 30% social housing pledge

Dutch News

Housing corporations built no new property in 34 of the Netherlands’ 342 local council areas between 2020 and 2023, despite government commitments to increasing the supply of affordable housing, Trouw reported on Tuesday. In 108 council areas, housing corporations built just 10% or less of the new homes and in 34 they built none at all, even though they added …

Housing Netherlands Social Housing Housing Corporations

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up

NL Times

The PFAS pollution in Dutch ports and rivers is so great that landfills for contaminated sludge are filling up much faster than expected, according to research by Trouw. Rijkswaterstaat warned that building new underwater landfills could easily take ten years. Since then, twice as much sludge has been entering the two Rijkswaterstaat landfills in the Ketelmeer on the Maasvlakte and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

1,000 religious leaders sign petition against Dutch asylum plans

Dutch News

More than 1,100 religious leaders in the Netherlands have signed a petition against the right-wing Dutch government’s “strictest refugee policy ever,” Trouw reported on Thursday. The plans, which include scrapping permanent residency permits, reintroducing border checks, and sending refugees back to “safe” parts of Syria, are “extremely concerning,” the signatories say. They also urge the government to show “justice and …

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4 months ago

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Dutch News

The Dutch advertising standards authorities has ticked off environmental campaign group Greenpeace for exaggerating the impact of eating meat in a ready-to-use package of lessons aimed at primary school children, Dutch media have reported. The lessons, which state that “animals eat 50% of the harvest, so there is less food for people”, should be seen as advertising because they put …

School Shell Greenpeace Lessons Trouw

4 months ago

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Dutch News

The Dutch advertising standards authorities has ticked off environmental campaign group Greenpeace for exaggerating the impact of eating meat in a ready-to-use package of lessons aimed at primary school children, Dutch media have reported. The lessons, which state that “animals eat 50% of the harvest, so there is less food for people”, should be seen as advertising because they put …

School Shell Greenpeace Lessons Trouw

5 months ago

Sending nudes has become common, also among adults

NL Times

Sending nude photos is increasingly commonplace, and not just among teenagers, according to an online panel study with 9,000 participants from 12 countries. Almost half of the Dutch respondents, aged 16 to 34, said that they sometimes received nudes from someone they were dating or chatting with. Nearly 20 percent of Dutch respondents said they have nude photos of themselves. …

Dutch Received Nudes Nude Photos

6 months, 3 weeks ago

More children with autism being kept out of school

NL Times

At least 4,000 children with autism are not currently attending school. “Many changing teachers in the classroom is very difficult for children with autism.” But parents also said that regular schools do not do enough to meet the needs of autistic children. “Children often stay at home because they get a kind of burnout at school,” Wevers said. “These children …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch shipping companies won't be prosecuted for exploiting North Korean workers

NL Times

Dutch shipping companies that may have profited from exploiting North Korean workers won’t see any consequences. La Strada International, a European platform of human rights NGOs, previously filed a complaint against several Dutch companies that had ships and parts of ships built at a Polish shipyard that exploited around 80 North Koreans between 2003 and 2018. La Strada International accused …

Dutch Human Trafficking Companies North Korean Trouw La Strada International

9 months ago

Court examining if companies can be prosecuted for profiting from exploited workers

NL Times

A Dutch court is currently considering whether the Public Prosecution Service should prosecute two Dutch companies for potentially profiting from exploited North Korean workers. According to the Article 12 procedure filed by an international network of NGOs, two Dutch companies had ships or parts for ships built at a Polish shipyard known to use exploited workers. In 2020, NGO network …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Some 8.9 million pieces of unsold clothing burned in the Netherlands per year

NL Times

Around 8.9 million pieces of unsold clothing are burned annually in the Netherlands. Returns are the biggest issue, with about a third ending up destroyed, Trouw reports based on a new study for the European Environment Agency. That is between 264,000 and 594,000 tons of destroyed textiles per year, according to the study by the Flemish Institute for Technological Research …

Clothing Eea

1 year ago

Large cities struggling to accommodate homeless people

NL Times

Large cities in the Netherlands are struggling to accommodate the increasing number of homeless people in need of shelter, Trouw reports after speaking to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Amersfoort, and Den Bosch. “But there are simply too many people and not enough shelter.” Waiting lists are growing for both acute shelters - usually dormitories and shared rooms - and …

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1 year ago

Jehovah's Witnesses suing Dutch State for discrimination

NL Times

The Jehovah’s Witnesses have sued the Dutch State for discrimination, the religious organization informed Trouw. Utrecht University conducted the investigation involved, following publications in Trouw in which sexual abuse victims within the Jehovah’s Witnesses described what happened to them, and published the results in January 2020. Utrecht University concluded that 60 percent of sexual abuse victims were very critical of …

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1 year ago

Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled a member for criticising child sex abuse policy

NL Times

The Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled one of their members from the church community because he criticized how the community deals with the sexual abuse of children, Trouw reports. The member involved is Bart van Gasteren from Oss, who tried to improve the position of sexual abuse victims from inside the Jehovah’s Witnesses, according to the newspaper. But, according to critical members, …

Witnesses Sex Abuse Sexual Van Member Trouw Jehovah

1 year, 4 months ago

Youth care workers see growing mistrust of the government

NL Times

Mistrust in the government is currently the primary source of polarization among young people, youth workers said in two studies commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs. But according to youth workers, the increasing poverty, the childcare allowance scandal, the climate crisis, waiting lists for health and mental healthcare, the housing shortage, and the asylum policy are all significant contributing …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers

NL Times

The extent of the plastic soup in the oceans may be much smaller than assumed for the past two decades. Estimates ranged from 50 million tons to 300 million tons of plastic waste floating in the oceans. According to them, rivers, in particular, bring much less plastic to the ocean than previously thought. The previous plastic soup estimates were based …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Netherlands hit hard by EU-wide medicine shortage

NL Times

The entire European Union is facing a shortage of certain medicines, but the Netherlands is hit extra hard. The Netherlands is listed among all 15 shortages currently registered by the European Medicines Agency. According to a study by the European organization of pharmaceutical companies PGEU, half of EU countries dealt with more considerable medicine shortages in 2022 than in 2021. …

Netherlands European Medicines Trouw Medicine Shortages

1 year, 9 months ago

Undercover cop infiltrated Extinction Rebellion chat groups: report

NL Times

An undercover police officer posed as an environmental activist, infiltrated two private Extinction Rebellion chat groups, and followed along with the messages posted there for weeks. The Public Prosecution Service suspects the eight Extinction Rebellion activists of sedition by calling on people to block the A12 highway in The Hague. Using the name “Inge,” the police officer posed as an …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Agriculture lobby convinced gov't to scrap measures from new water policy

NL Times

The Dutch government adjusted its new water policy on several points under pressure from the agriculture lobby, Trouw reports based on confidential drafts of the Minister’s letter to parliament. Officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure wrote that the texts about a permit requirement and groundwater extraction ban were “very important” to “LNV/LTO.” And in the final letter Harbers sent to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Regions outside the Randstad want foreign students to stay: Trouw

Dutch News

Areas outside the central Randstad part of the Netherlands are afraid they will lose out if universities and hbo colleges are stopped from actively recruiting international students abroad, Trouw reported on Tuesday. Education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is currently preparing draft legislation to make the influx of foreign students more manageable, following a motion backed by MPs some months ago. We …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Regions outside the Randstad want foreign students to stay: Trouw

Dutch News

Areas outside the central Randstad part of the Netherlands are afraid they will lose out if universities and hbo colleges are stopped from actively recruiting international students abroad, Trouw reported on Tuesday. Education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is currently preparing draft legislation to make the influx of foreign students more manageable, following a motion backed by MPs some months ago. We …

Students Foreign Students Trouw Zeeland

1 year, 10 months ago

Regions outside Randstad against limiting international students

NL Times

Regions outside the Randstad are very worried about plans to limit the number of international students. Educational institutions and businesses in Limburg, Zeeland, Twente, Groningen, and Friesland benefit greatly from international students and experience much less of the problems that occur in the Randstad, Trouw reports. Under increasing pressure from parliament, Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf is working on a bill to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Anti-depressants, anxiety meds messing with water life in Dutch canals, lakes

NL Times

High concentrations of anti-depressants and anxiety inhibitors pose a risk to water life in Dutch ditches, canals, and lakes, according to research by Maastricht University, the RIVM, and other scientists. These medicines are so common in Dutch surface water that they are affecting aquatic life’s behaviors, Trouw reports. “The substances carbamazepine, oxazepam, and fluoxetine are regularly found” in the surface …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Amsterdam working on monument to honor WWII "comfort women"

NL Times

The municipality of Amsterdam and investigative journalist Griselda Molemans are working together on a monument to honor “comfort women” - women who the Japanese occupiers forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during World War II. Japan is against monuments honoring “comfort women” because, according to the Japanese government, the women were not forced to work as sex slaves. I …

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Dutch MP will propose banning children under 15 from using social media

Many councils are failing to meet the 30% social housing pledge

Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up

1,000 religious leaders sign petition against Dutch asylum plans

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Greenpeace ticked off over meat claims in school lessons

Sending nudes has become common, also among adults

More children with autism being kept out of school

Dutch shipping companies won't be prosecuted for exploiting North Korean workers

Court examining if companies can be prosecuted for profiting from exploited workers

Some 8.9 million pieces of unsold clothing burned in the Netherlands per year

Large cities struggling to accommodate homeless people

Jehovah's Witnesses suing Dutch State for discrimination

Jehovah’s Witnesses expelled a member for criticising child sex abuse policy

Youth care workers see growing mistrust of the government

Less plastic in oceans than assumed: Dutch researchers

Netherlands hit hard by EU-wide medicine shortage

Undercover cop infiltrated Extinction Rebellion chat groups: report

Agriculture lobby convinced gov't to scrap measures from new water policy

Regions outside the Randstad want foreign students to stay: Trouw

Regions outside the Randstad want foreign students to stay: Trouw

Regions outside Randstad against limiting international students

Anti-depressants, anxiety meds messing with water life in Dutch canals, lakes

Amsterdam working on monument to honor WWII "comfort women"