Throughout the country, the National Coordinator for Discrimination and Racism held meetings in March, April and May. Coordinator Rabin Baldewsingh thus received input for a national action plan against discrimination and racism. Throughout the Netherlands. Twenty meetings. But not in Drenthe.
The PvdA and the Party for the Animals have also noticed this and they hope that such a session will take place in Drenthe. “I say yes to that,” says provincial administrator Hans Kuipers (GroenLinks). He will try to get this meeting in Drenthe in the fall.
Last year, Rabin Baldewsingh was appointed National Coordinator for Discrimination and Racism. With this, the government wants to strengthen the current approach to discrimination and racism. Baldewsingh must come up with a longer-term plan, which includes annual actions. He wants to present this plan to the House of Representatives before the summer.
He therefore has no input from Drenthe for this. “Organizing a meeting will no longer be possible before the summer,” says Kuipers.
Those sessions, which are called Townhall sessions, dealt with, among other things, discrimination in the labor market and the housing market. And also about ethnic profiling, online discrimination and inclusion within the government. Recently, the cabinet acknowledged that there was ‘institutional racism’ in the allowance affair.