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(b)
Ensure that racial and ethnic minorities enjoy effective protection from
and access to remedies for racial discrimination. The Special Rapporteur especially
emphasizes the need to ensure effective protection for anti-racism protesters and
organizers;
(c)
Ensure that its carceral, counter-terrorism and asylum practices are
non-discriminatory and in compliance with international human rights law
obligations;
(d)
Remediate socioeconomic gaps between racial and ethnic minorities and
ethnic Netherlanders. Government statistics confirm that racial and ethnic minorities
lag behind ethnic Netherlanders in, among others, housing equality, educational
equality and employment equality. The Government should adopt all appropriate
measures to eliminate these differences;
(e)
Implement educational initiatives that provide a fuller account of the
Netherlands’ history, including its participation in endeavours characterized by racial
discrimination and subordination. At a fundamental level, far more needs to be done
to educate all Netherlanders both about slavery and colonialism as manifestations of
systematic racial subordination, including and especially the subordination of peoples
of former colonies, and about those enslaved and traded by their ancestors. This
education must encompass a fuller account of the fundamental contributions that
racial and ethnic minorities have made, both during and since the colonial period, to
consolidating national prosperity. The history of Roma, Sinti and Travellers is equally
important. Similarly, education is required to highlight the contributions that others,
such as people of Turkish and Moroccan background, who emigrated originally under
labour migration regimes and who contributed and continue to contribute to the
prosperity of the Netherlands. Educational initiatives in schools and in public media,
museums and in other cultural forums are essential to counter the images and
narratives of racial and ethnic minorities as criminals, strangers, burdens and so
forth.
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