Rabin Baldewsingh
(Surinam, 1962) is the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism since 2021. Baldewsingh was alderman in The Hague for 12 years, from 2006 to 2018. Prior to that, he was a documentary editor and, from 1998, a Hague city councillor. As alderman, he held various policy areas in his portfolio, including social affairs and employment, neighbourhood approach, sports, city management and environmental policy, public health, integration, personnel and organisation and civic affairs. Besides his work as NCDR, he participates as a dual PhD student in the programme of Leiden University Dual PhD Centre The Hague. His dissertation will be on Sarnámi as a language in oppression.
Past events
Dictation Sranantongo
A public dictation for all those who speak Sranantongo. The best speller wins the translation dictionary Sranan-Dutch/Dutch-Sranan. Writer Cynthia McLeod and Rabin Baldewsingh, alderman in The Hague, will dictate the text. Winternachten provides pen and paper. Dutch and Sranantongo spoken.
