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/ 12 January 2007
Amsterdam has launched a crackdown on "crime" kingpins in the city’s red-light district, which threatens to leave hundreds of sex workers out of a job, and has solicited help from a slightly bemused sector — Dutch banks. The city authorities have no quarrel with prostitution, which was legalised in 2001 in this country that has historically prided itself on tolerance.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday started its pleadings before the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’s highest court, against Uganda, which it accuses of invading DRC territory and massacring Congolese civilians. The DRC’s ambassador to The Netherlands outlined the position of the DRC in the proceeding.