November 13, 2025

People of African descent in Switzerland experience racial discrimination in various aspects of their lives, UN human rights experts found after visiting the country.

โ€œRacial profiling and police controls of Black people humiliate, criminalize and stigmatize,โ€ Dominique Day, head of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, said in a statement. โ€œAccording to information received, police operations include brutal arrests, racial profiling, humiliating and degrading treatment, and reinforce negative racial stereotypes in the public realm. These are a violation of human rights.โ€

November 13, 2025

Dutch Premiere on the Life and Legacy of Marcus Garvey at Opening of Africadelic Festival 2023

On ๐—ช๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฐ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜†, we have teamed up with the ๐—”๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ to organize the Dutch premiere of ๐—”๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜†. This groundbreaking documentary about the life of the great, if not the greatest, pan-Africanist of the early twentieth century, Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), is screened once on […]

November 13, 2025

Caribbean Ancestry Club (CAC) is hosting a workshop โ€œHow to Find my Caribbean Ancestors?โ€

The Caribbean Ancestry Club (CAC) is hosting a workshop โ€œHow to Find my Caribbean Ancestors?โ€, at the Nationaal Archief in The Hague November 4. The organizers, who bill themselves as a community platform for and by ABCSSS community members, note in their Facebook announcement that this event “is your chance to embark on this important journey with us if you always wanted to delve into the archives to search for your Caribbean ancestors from the ABCSSS islands?”

November 13, 2025

Dutch covid memorial includes stories from Black communities, islands

Amsterdam — The memorial โ€œNational Reflection on Covidโ€ that opens today, Friday 29 in the Provinciehuis in North Brabant, will present an as inclusive as possible picture of the Netherlands during the corona years. On the eve of the opening ceremony, Arno Brok, the King’s Commissioner in the province of Fryslรขn, emphasized that much effort went into including stories from the Caribbean islands into the retrospective.

November 13, 2025

St. Maarten singer Kenyo brings a ‘message of unity’ to opening of Reflecting on Covid expo in Brabant Friday

AMSTERDAM — When Dutch king Willem Alexander officiates the opening of the roving memorial โ€œReflecting on Covidโ€ on Friday September 29, 2023, in the province of Brabant, one face will stand out on stage: that of St. Maarten singer Kenyo Baly. The charismatic 27-year-old performer with the velvet baritone will be singing the song โ€œHometown Glory by Adele.โ€

November 13, 2025

OXFAM: EU in danger of violating aid rules by using aid to halt African migration

The EU is in danger of violating global and EU aid rules by using aid to halt migration. This is according to Oxfamโ€™s new report, From Development to Deterrence, which sheds light on how the EU employs its aid budget to outsource migration control to countries in Africa. The report reveals that 6 out of the 16 identified migration activities in Niger, Libya and Tunisia potentially breach aid rules. These 6 activities total โ‚ฌ667 million, with the total funds analysed amounting to approximately โ‚ฌ1 billion.