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Magic Lane launches groundbreaking platform in Maps, Location & Navigation services
Magic Lane launches a groundbreaking platform in intelligent, compact and privacy-friendly Maps, Location & Navigation […]
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Be a Lady, They Said
Be a lady, they said… Since we are talking about the major payment gap between […]
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Learning from mistakes; an autobiography by my friend
Learning from mistakes is the main reason why my friend Robert Fink, also known as […]
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Harmful traditional practices in closed-up religious communities
Minister Karien van Gennip of Social Affairs and Employment and Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf of Education, […]
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Eleven French bishops accused of sexual violence
And it goes on and on and on and on… … Eleven former or serving […]
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UN Human Rights Chief issues open letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued an open letter to Elon Musk, […]
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Plan promotes the right to self-determination
In the Netherlands, we believe that everyone should be themselves. And that everyone can fully […]
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The integrity industry has degenerated into a people-oriented (Dutch)
Integrity procedures have acquired the status of a kind of pseudo-judicial system, but without the […]
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Essay: ayahuasca set me free
Since I started the conversation, I need to follow up on it, I thought after […]
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Gomarus school to compensate former students for coercion
In the past year, I have been following the developments around the reformed school Gomarus […]
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Jolene Hettinga-Zagers becomes director of EmpowerYou (Dutch)
Jolene Hettinga-Zagers (34) wordt directeur van EmpowerYou, een bureau op het gebied van loopbaanvragen, coaching, […]
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Netherlands ranks fourth for children’s rights
The Netherlands is fourth in the world ranking for children’s rights, the KidsRights Index 2022. […]
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Oliver Yeboah, from pastor to CEO Blueplates (Dutch)
Oliver Yeboah wordt CEO Blueplates, een online platform dat taxichauffeurs zonder eigen wagen koppelt aan […]
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Effect hierarchy on moral behavior
The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience published a fascinating research on the effect of hierarchy on […]
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Integrity manager plays a central role within organizations (Dutch)
More and more organizations are taking their integrity policy seriously. Appointing an integrity manager plays […]
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The law of silence (French)
Tibetan Buddhism is also market by scandals, sexual abuse and other forms of coercion. Not […]
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Government should control Orthodox communities better
The New York Times presents an extraordinarily strong portrait of the Hasidic, or Jewish ultra-Orthodox […]
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Bessel Van der Kolk and liberating yourself from repressed traumas
With great interest, I watched the three-hour Zomergasten broadcast with psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. […]
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Not cultures act, but people do (Dutch)
Janine Janssen en Catrien Bijleveld komen met een Basisboek geweld in de levensloop, theorie voor […]
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TED talk by Dina-Perla Portnaar
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved ~ George MacDonald To see […]
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More women than men have been appointed as supervisory board members
More women than men have been appointed as supervisory board members of listed companies in […]
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More gender and looks related comments online towards women
Social media are ubiquitous in today’s society. The anonymity of posts seems to foster blaming […]
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Dancing women are under attack, while men stay put
It is the week of criticizing women, due to a dancing Prime Minister from Finland, […]
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Criminalize mental torture as soon as possible
Coercive control – in other words, a severe form of psychological violence and restriction of […]
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Experiential knowledge and experience experts (Dutch)
Hilko Timmer has come up with this excellent visual to understand experiential knowledge and experience […]
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Shocking Dutch report on abuses triathlon sport
A shocking Dutch report by Unraveling Research & Advice on the abuses in the triathlon […]
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Australian national plan to legislate against coercive control
Australia’s state and territory attorney-generals have agreed to create a national plan to address coercive […]
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InnerBody: California is the healthiest state 2022
Research done by InnerBody concludes that California is the healthiest state of America in 2022. […]
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First ever global policy on girls’ and young women’s activism
UN Human Rights Council’s landmark new policy document on girls’ and young women’s activism is […]
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Mea culpa from Pope Francis towards indigenous children in Canadian boarding schools
Recently, I wrote about how it is time for a massive mea culpa from religious […]
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Independent research needed for cases of abuse in Dutch women’s prisons
Dutch lawyer Johan Oosterhagen has been researching abuses in women’s prisons for over 1.5 years. […]
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Almost 1 in 2 women in the EU have experienced psychological violence
European Institute for Gender Equality, the EIGE’s latest report on coercive control and psychological violence across the […]
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Boys and girls are not allowed to sit next to each other in Kerala
Boys and girls are not allowed to sit next to each other on a bench […]
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It’s time for apologies from those bearded men
Never in history has a Jewish Orthodox leader stood up and declared: mea culpa for […]
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India elects first president from tribal community
India elects the first president from the country’s tribal communities. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old teacher […]
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Racial discrimination affects the brain
A new study shows that the experience of racial discrimination affects the microstructure of the brain, […]
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How do you best behave in the workplace? Podcast (Dutch)
The summer is magic! Een zomerproject in samenwerking met podcast De Nieuwe Knikkers – Payments, Loyalty & Retail en […]
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Different Dutch student bonds decide to stop hazing
The board of different Dutch student bonds decided to stop hazing. According to diverse investigations, […]
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Could moral enhancement technologies solve aggression?
It is a mistake to think problematic aggression is limited to those with psychiatric disorders. […]
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Plea for philosophical professional ethics
On 3rd June 1992, Dutch Minister of Interior Affairs called Ien Dales gave a speech […]
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Combatting sexism: there is momentum for change
Most people work with some men who care about gender equity and creating an inclusive […]
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Solutions to challenges in the search for good staff are within reach (Dutch)
Een oplossing voor uitdagingen in de zoektocht naar goed personeel ligt binnen handbereik. Volwaardige diensten […]
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United Kingdom: backsliding on human rights must be prevented
“Legal reforms should not weaken human rights protections in the United Kingdom”, said the Council […]
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Spanking violates children’s rights. Canada still allows it
Despite self-conceptions, Canada is far from the best when it comes to children’s rights. A 2020 […]
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Study finds millions may not recognise coercive control
Four in ten (43%) British adults say their understanding of coercive control is poor or […]
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Buy-Now-Pay-Later: it is a credit
The revision of the EU Consumer Credit Directive is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to regulate BNPL […]
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Serious abuses at slaughterhouse in the province of Utrecht
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) has identified serious abuses at a […]
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Abuse in top sport (Dutch)
We hear more and more about transgressive behavior in the world of sports, in other […]
