Verdonk krijgt jongeren bij elkaar

Posted on April 15th, 2005 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

Trouw is erg positief over Verdonk: Ze krijgt jongeren bij elkaar Nou ja op zich is dat natuurlijk allereerst een pluim op de hoed van die jongeren zelf, maar laat ik niet zeiken het is goed wat Verdonk daar gedaan heeft. In de Trouw-reacties wordt opgemerkt dat er meer tegen elkaar is gepraat dan met elkaar, maar misschien is dat ook wel teveel gevraagd voor de eerste keer. En liever tegen elkaar praten dan tegen elkaar vechten lijkt me. Braaf van mij he.

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Minority Rights in the Netherlands

Posted on April 15th, 2005 by .
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

The Kingdom of the Netherlands will apply the Framework Convention to the Frisians.

The Framework Convention is the the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM).
The Dutch Declaration aims to restrict the application of the Framework only to the Frisian minority and should be rejected as invalid, states Minority Rights Group International (MRG).

The Dutch concept of �national minorities� is limited only to Frisians and fails to accept Roma or Sinti groups, and others including Germans, Moluccans, Moroccans, Surinamese and Turks, despite the fact that many have long histories within Dutch territory. According to MRG, which has been lobbying for Europe-wide ratification of the FCNM, all minority communities should benefit and be able to make claims on the government based on the FCNM provisions. The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Article 19) does not permit reservations to be incompatible with the object and purpose of a treaty, a provision which MRG believes also renders the Dutch Declaration invalid.

It means that the Frisians can preserve to maintain ‘their’ culture and others like Roma, Sinti, Germans, Moroccans and Chinese can not.

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