Netherlands: women immigrants face inequality says an expert
Women immigrants and refugees - many of whom are Muslims - continue to encounter discrimination in the Netherlands, a United Nations expert said on Thursday.
The expert, who spent 3-11 July on a fact-finding mission to the country, was critical of immigrant women’s access to the jobs market, child care provision, and the Dutch government’s tougher procedures for asylum-seekers which frequently dismiss the applications of rape and torture victims who are unable to ‘positively demonstrate’ their trauma.
[…]For more than 30 years, the Dutch government has pursued an active policy on women’s equality, yet persisting inequalities still exist between men and women in the job market due to the lack of affordable child care and prioritisation for women’s reproductive role, the expert said.
Full article: AKI News, 13 July 2006
Also see: UN Rapporteur critical of Dutch asylum procedure, Radio Netherlands, 14 July 2006
