House of Representatives approves larger island councils for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba

The treaty was formally published in the Netherlands’ Treaty Gazette. It records Curaçao’s associate status and grants participation in selected CARICOM bodies and programs, while reserving...

The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 on the transatlantic trafficking and racialized enslavement of Africans. The declaration renewed international debate about historical...

Following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee, the Netherlands signed an agreement to return two objects from the Wereldmuseum collection to Indonesia. One was seized by Dutch forces...

The Royal Collections announced completion of research into the legality and ethics of objects with colonial origins. Examples included a weapon taken after Dutch soldiers killed Lampung ruler Raden...

The government published translated regulations outlining civil settlements for widows and children of victims of mass executions in the former Dutch East Indies. The settlements emerged from...

At the opening of Ulu Kora, the national Moluccan monument, Prime Minister Rob Jetten apologized for the government’s treatment of Moluccan KNIL soldiers and their families after their 1951 forced...

At the National Slavery Remembrance ceremony, Prime Minister Rob Jetten invited public institutions to raise the Dutch flag on 1 July and stressed action on slavery’s present-day social and economic...

The Senate completed parliamentary approval of a law expanding elected representation on the BES islands. The amendment adjusted local institutions within the Dutch state but did not change the...

The Royal House announced that King Willem-Alexander would receive the results of an independent study into the House of Orange-Nassau’s role in Dutch colonial history on 2 October. The research...

King Willem-Alexander received an independent study of the monarchy’s colonial history. Researchers concluded that the royal house shared responsibility for the survival of Dutch slavery and...