A ruling by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights on a complaint from an Afghan man who reported early November 2016 has been rejected as an applicant for a position of translator English-Dutch at a company Amsterdam. The company wrote that it uses the mother tongue principle and he does not comply with it. The man feels discriminated because his language skills don't seem to matter, only the place where he was born. The College states that the company has discriminated against him on the grounds of race. There is a second ruling by the College today about a complaint by possibly the same Afghan man against a publisher Amsterdam the him mid-November 2016 declined because the Netherlands is not his native language. Here the Institute also ruled that they were guilty of discrimination on the grounds of race.

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