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Amsterdam to relocate red light district as part of crackdown on gawping tourists A series of changes are happening in Amsterdam to transform the kind of tourists the city attracts Amsterdams red light district is moving out of the city centre Credit: Getty Amsterdam’s famed red light district will be closed and moved to an ‘erotic centre’, following an agreement by concillors. The news is the latest in a prolonged war against the supposedly seedier aspects of the Dutch capital. In April ...

Windows in the red light district of Amsterdam. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images The brothel windows of Amsterdam’s red light district will be closed and an “erotic centre” will be set up away from the city centre, councillors have agreed. A proposal from the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, to shut down a significant number of the windows in the narrow alleys around the docks was backed by a broad group of politica...

Dennis Boutkan of the Labour party said the move would “reset” Amsterdam as a visitor city. The CDA’s Diederik Boutkan said tourists were “welcome to enjoy the beauty and freedom of the city, but not at any cost”. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sex workers stand in the windows of brothels in the area to attract custom, but have become a tourist attraction in themselves. Lobby group Red Light United previously claimed that 90 per cent of female sex workers it had surveyed wanted ...

*Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities Amsterdam, The Netherlands – “Fireworks, dynamite, gasoline, bricks,” said an invite to the riot that erupted in Amsterdam, on Molukkenstraat in the city’s east, on Monday. “Get everything.” The invites were shared on social media, in Snapchat posts, Instagram stories, on Telegram and WhatsApp groups. Monday was the third day of violence to shake the Netherlands, where hundreds of rioters in several towns and cit...

Netherlands: What’s behind violent anti-lockdown riots? Al Jazeera English © A man cleans up broken glass from the smashed windows in a fast-food restaurant that was damaged in ... A man cleans up broken glass from the smashed windows in a fast-food restaurant that was damaged in protests against a nation-wide curfew in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Monday, January 25, 2021 [Peter Dejong/AP] *Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities Amsterdam, The Net...

Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (CC BY-SA Matěj Baťha/Wikimedia Commons) AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protests by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement published Thursday on the website of the National 4 and 5 May Committee, Dutch-Moroccan author Abdelkader Benali wr...

Author who railed against Jews quits as speaker for Dutch Holocaust commemoration following storm of criticism Abdelkader Benali gives an interview in Amsterdam, May 14, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons) Advertisement AMSTERDAM (JTA) – Amid protest by prominent Dutch Holocaust survivors, an author who called Gaza “a ghetto” and said he feels uncomfortable around Jews has stepped down as keynote speaker of the national ceremony commemorating victims of the genocide. In a statement pub...

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Dutch coronavirus lockdown likely to be extended by two weeks Facebook Dutch coronavirus lockdown likely to be extended by two weeks Facebook Whats up According to new reports from The Hague, the coronavirus lockdown currently in place in the Netherlands is likely to be extended by at least two weeks.  The coronavirus situation in the Netherlands In the weekly report published on January 5, the National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) stated that, while the number of corona...

Historical novel on Hollands largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for awful errors   Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform seminary and childrens detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. AMSTERDAM (JTA) - It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust. But a week after its publication, a Dutch-...