Last year, the Dutch police and municipalities registered more reports of discrimination for the third consecutive year. The Institute for Human Rights and the National Ombudsman also received more reports than a year earlier. Complaints about discrimination by the government more than doubled, the Volkskrant reports based on a report published by knowledge center Art.1 on Tuesday.
The National Ombudsman saw the number of complaints about discrimination by a government agency more than double to 321 reports. The Institute for Human Rights handled 700 cases last year, 16 percent more than in 2020.