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Netherlands: Constitution Amended to Explicitly Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or Disability library of Congress legal monitor
Netherlands: Constitution Amended to Explicitly Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or Disability
On January 17, 2023, the Dutch Senate (Eerste Kamer), the upper house of the Dutch parliament, approved in a second reading an amendment to the constitutional principle of nondiscrimination to include sexual orientation and disability. The amendment was approved in a roll-call vote with 56 members of parliament (MPs) voting in favor and 15 MPs voting against. The House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) had adopted the proposal on March 15, 2022. The amendment will enter into force immediately after publication in the Dutch gazette (Staatsblad). (Grondwet (Dutch Constitution) art. 139.)
Previously, the principle of nondiscrimination, which is codified in article 1 of the Constitution, explicitly prohibited only discrimination based on “religion, belief, political opinion, race, or sex or on any other grounds whatsoever.”
Furthermore, the Dutch Senate approved an additional motion requiring the government to submit to the State Commission on Discrimination and Racism (Staatscommissie discriminatie en racism) a proposal to rearrange the wording of article 1 of the Constitution so that the general prohibition (“discrimination on any grounds whatsoever”) is placed before the specific nondiscrimination grounds.
Background on the Constitutional Amendment Procedure
An amendment of the Constitution requires two readings of the proposed amendment in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The first reading follows the standard legislative procedure, meaning a simple majority is required to adopt the proposal. A second reading in the House of Representative may take place only after parliamentary elections, so that voters may have an input. (Grondwet art. 137, para. 3.) At the second reading, a two-thirds majority of both houses is required to pass the bill. (Art. 137, para. 4.)
Jenny Gesley, Law Library of Congress
February 10, 2023
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Currently circulating variants of interest (VOIs) as of 09 August 2023 ///Currently circulating variants under monitoring (VUMs) (as of 09 August 2023)
Currently circulating variants of interest (VOIs) as of 09 August 2023
Pango lineage Nextstrain clade Genetic features Earliest documented samples Date of designation and risk assessments
XBB.1.5 23A
Recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, i.e. BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1, with a breakpoint in S1.
XBB.1 + S:F486P (similar Spike genetic profile as XBB.1.9.1)
21-10-2022
11-01-2023
XBB.1.5 Rapid Risk Assessment, 11 January 2023
XBB.1.5 Updated Rapid Risk Assessment, 25 January 2023
XBB.1.5 Updated Risk Assessment, 24 February 2023
XBB.1.5 Updated Risk Assessment, 20 June 2023
XBB.1.16 23B
Recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, i.e. BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1
XBB.1 + S:E180V, S:K478R and S:F486P 09-01-2023
17-04-2023
XBB.1.16 Initial Risk Assessment, 17 April 2023
XBB.1.16 Updated Risk Assessment, 05 June 2023
EG.5 Not assigned
XBB.1.9.2 + S:F456L
Includes EG.5.1: EG.5 + S:Q52H
17-02-2023
09-08-2023
EG.5 Initial Risk Evaluation, 09 August 2023
Currently circulating variants under monitoring (VUMs) (as of 09 August 2023)
Pango lineage Nextstrain clade Genetic features Earliest documented samples Date of designation and risk assessments
BA.2.75 22D BA.2 + S:K147E, S:W152R, S:F157L, S:I210V, S:G257S, S:D339H, S:G446S, S:N460K, S:Q493R reversion 31-12-2021 06-07-2022
CH.1.1 22D BA.2.75 + S:L452R, S:F486S 27-07-2022 08-02-2023
XBB* 22F BA.2+ S:V83A, S:Y144-, S:H146Q, S:Q183E, S:V213E, S:G252V, S:G339H, S:R346T, S:L368I, S:V445P, S:G446S, S:N460K, S:F486S, S:F490S 19-08-2022 12-10-2022
XBB.1.9.1 Not assigned
Recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, i.e. BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1
XBB.1 + S:F486P (similar Spike genetic profile as XBB.1.5)
05-12-2022 30-03-2023
XBB.1.9.2# Not assigned
Recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, i.e. BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1
XBB.1 + S:F486P, S:Q613H
05-12-2022 26-04-2023
XBB.2.3 Not assigned
Recombinant of BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 sublineages, i.e. BJ.1 and BM.1.1.1
XBB + S:D253G, S:F486P, S:P521S
09-12-2022 17-05-2023
* Excludes XBB sublineages listed here as VOIs and VUMs
# Excludes XBB.1.9.2 sublineages listed here as VOIs and VUMs
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How to protect yourself from Lyme disease (even if you get bitten) CBC news the national
There’s been a spike in Lyme disease cases, and experts say Canadians need to be more vigilant when outdoors. The National’s Adrienne Arsenault talks to Dr. Allan Grill, chief of family medicine at Oak Valley Health's Markham Stouffville Hospital, about the best ways to protect yourself.
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