The Children's Ombudsman, which includes office Den Haag, announces that Zwarte Piet is contrary to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “The current form of Zwarte Piet as part of Sinterklaas can contribute to bullying, exclusion or discrimination“, state in a report released today by the Children's Ombudsman. Direct this morning she gets dozens of threats in. The mailbox fills up with death curses and comments ‘they need only to another country‘ and they ‘a disease‘ need to get. responds to the Courtyard Geert Wilders of the PVV: “Pleur on Children's Ombudsman with your Zwarte Piet-nonsense“.

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