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In January 1579, a number of Dutch provinces signed the Union of Utrecht in which they agreed to cooperate in the strife against the Spaniards. Some historians have regarded the Union as the first constitution of the Netherlands. The document stipulated that n...

The study of an 18th-century Jewish legal journal published in Amsterdam sheds light on the complex slave ownership issues. The legal notion of dominium is well-known for those familiar with Roman law: it implies dominion, control, ownership, and sovereignty. ...

In recent years, cities have often been mentioned in the news as sites and actors of international and global stories. During the international conference on climate change municipal governments and especially the C40 organisation, representing prominent citie...

About 10% of Hong Kong’s workforce is made up of foreign domestic workers. Foreign domestic workers, of which the majority are women from Southeast Asian and South Asian countries, are granted two-year visas that restrict them to work as private household work...

While words are carriers of meaning, they are likewise markers of cultural heritage. The Dutch language, like most European languages, has borrowed from other vocabularies. Jewish heritage therefore became embedded in our language too. Most everyday words in D...