Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Cars parked along an Amsterdam canal
Cars parked along an Amsterdam canal - Credit: earlytwenties / DepositPhotos - License: DepositPhotos
Politics
Amsterdam
Racism
discrimination
Rutger Groot Wassink
Black Lives Matter
Saturday, June 27, 2020 - 08:40
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Amsterdam urges residents to call out racism; Street names could change

The city of Amsterdam will begin urging its residents to stand up against any acts of racism or discrimination they witness, the municipality announced on Friday. As part of a new awareness campaign that will be distributed on screens throughout the city and over social media, the municipality hopes to promote the message, "In this city, we stand up for each other".

"The Black Lives Matter demonstrations show just how much the problem of anti-black racism lives in Amsterdam and the rest of the world. The city has also been shocked a few times by violence against LGBTI people," said Diversity Alderman Rutger Groot Wassink.

The anti-discrimination campaign will actively urge residents to speak out or to intervene if they, as a bystander, were to witness anyone targeted for abuse in the city. "Don't be a silent bystander. You do that, and the victim just has more pain," added Wassink.

In addition to the awareness campaign, another measure that the municipality intends to carry out is an inventory of the streets, squares and bridges in Amsterdam which have names linked to the Dutch colonial past. Such a move has been on the table since 2018, when the political parties GroenLinks and BIJ1 urged for such an inventory to be taken in November of that year.

In order to ascertain public sentiment on the place names, city officials will carry out surveys and organize discussion session with residents, the municipality said.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Nearly 64,000 Ukrainians now registered in the Netherlands
  • Fruit and veg prices rise 12 percent
  • FvD politicians give Antisemitic channels a wider reach: report
  • Tourist sites get most attention on Google Street View; Netherlands ranks 20th globally
  • Fewer than 425 Covid-19 patients in hospitals; Infection average drops to 46-week low
  • Man arrested in Kerkrade for war crimes in Syria

Top stories

  • Summer strikes at Schiphol if workload remains high: trade union
  • Schiphol crowds expected to continue; Airport boss leaves World Economic Forum early
  • Dutch gov't to spend €220 million on more Air France-KLM shares
  • Discrimination complaints against Dutch gov't more than doubled
  • Angry passengers afraid to miss flight cause "threatening situation" at Schiphol
  • Monkeypox found in six people in the Netherlands so far, RIVM says

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content