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The '''Netherlands''', also known informally as '''Holland''', and more properly as '''The Kingdom of the Netherlands'''. The name of the country in Dutch is ''Nederland''. The people are the ''Dutch'' and the language spoken is also ''Dutch''. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy situated in Europe. It is bordered south by Belgium, east by Germany and t northwest by the North Sea. The nation includes three islands in the Caribbean Sea.
The Netherlands have a population of about 18,000,000 of which about 5 percent are Muslim.
The Netherlands, unlike the English-speaking nations, has never practiced [[circumcision]] of boys.
==Human rights==
The [https://www.govserv.org/NL/Utrecht/703482366345976/Netherlands-Institute-of-Human-Rights---SIM Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)] is a part of the [https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/utrecht-university-school-of-law University of Utrecht School of Law]. SIM (1998) issued a very strong statement against child circumcision.<ref name="smith1998">{{REFbook
|last=Smith
|first=Jacqueline
|author-link=
|year=1998
|title=Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/
|work=To Baehr in Our Minds: Essays in Human Rights from the Heart of the Netherlands (SIM Special No. 21)
|editor=Mielle Bulterman, Aart Hendriks and Jacqueline Smith (Eds.)
|edition=
|volume=
|chapter=
|pages=465-98
|location=Utrect
|publisher=Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)
|isbn=
|quote=
|accessdate=2021-09-16
|note=
}}</ref>