After two years of research and discussion, human rights watchdog group Amnesty International voted on Tuesday to support policies around the world to decriminalize sex work. After 15 years of legal sex work, the Netherlands shows bringing the industry out into the open could be a step in the right direction. For one, sex workers’ lives have improved.
SolaRoad’s 70-meter test track near the town of Krommenie outside Amsterdam has generated over 3,000 kilowatt-hours over its first six months of operation, or “enough to provide a single-person household with electricity for a year.” This is the first step towards a very bright future.
The Netherlands has an extremely sane drug policy for keeping tourists safe
Amsterdam’s reputation as a mecca for party-hopping tourists has taken a darker turn in the past couple of months, as a string of heroin-related tourist deaths and hospitalizations rocked the city. But instead of criminalizing these people, the city is just trying to make everyone safer. What a novel idea.
I don’t see any differences from the tragedy 9/11, from the tragedy of Lockerbie and from the tragedy of Grabovo.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
The Netherlands is now calling the downing of MH17 a war crime