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Takes femicide, killing women because of their gender, more or less? Or is just knowledge about it increasing, as well as social unrest? Based on it NRCarticle, with 25 surviving relatives, I lean towards the latter. The attention to the murder of women by their ex-partners is the ultimate #MeToo. Men, of the compulsive controlling...

It was supposed to be a Prime Minister's debate on Sunday evening on RTL, and two of the three party leaders on stage thought that was a very good idea. Frans Timmermans of GroenLinks-PvdA and Dilan Yesilgöz of the VVD have done everything in recent days to be seen as the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands. ...

This week marks one year since Ukrainian forces liberated the city of Kherson. So shortly before the start of the first winter of the war, the expulsion of Russian troops from the southern city and across the Dnipro was a huge boost for the besieged Ukrainian population. But twelve months later, it is clear that the liberation...

Now that more than a million people in our wealthy country are at risk of falling below the poverty line, almost all political parties are suddenly flirting with the concept of social security. They are less clear about what exactly they mean by that. The independent Social Minimum Commission established in 2022 by Ministers Schouten and Van...

While Israeli tanks surround Gaza City, international pressure is growing to at least temporarily stop the fighting. For example, the heads of eighteen United Nations agencies and NGOs are calling for a 'immediate humanitarian ceasefire'. Four questions about the combat situation in the Gaza Strip.1 What options are there to temporarily stop the fighting?There are varying degrees...