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Remember the women in the War on Terror

Anti-terrorism laws and regulations, like stop-and-search policies, interrogations at airports, or worse, imprisonment without trial, extraordinary rendition, extradition, torture, deprivation of citizenship or killings by drones not only affect the lives of Muslim men. This ever-glooming suspicion also deprives women,…

Like the Golliwog, Zwarte Piet is a racist relic, so why is it part of the modern Dutch Christmas?

Winter is coming. In London, Christmas decorations adorn its shopping streets. In the Netherlands, Christmas has not occupied people’s minds yet, as it is preceded by the Sinterklaas celebration. The festival provides an excuse to get together for creative gift…