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Venetia RaineyVR

Venetia Rainey

Reporter
Venetia Rainey is a multimedia journalist who has filed stories from across the MENA region and Europe.She has reported in depth on the refugee crisis in Lebanon, spoken to the last remaining Jewish chef in Tunisia and covered a divisive national election in The Netherlands. Her work mainly focuses on issues around migration and gender.She is currently based between Amsterdam and Athens.
Greece exits bailout, but ‘shackles and the asphyxiation continue’
Nuria at My Red Light, a social project in the form of a brothel in Amsterdam. Nuria plans to retire from sex work later this year and work full-time in an administrative role at My Red Light.
Women & Gender
A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves
Rie van de Mueren (r) used to be a professional ballroom dancer. She's with Dieuwer Duijf at the Music Salon, which holds dance parties for the elderly in north Amsterdam.
Music
Amsterdam is tackling loneliness one dance party at a time
Demonstrators rally on behalf of LGBT asylum-seekers in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Justice
‘Not gay enough’: Dutch authorities challenge asylum-seekers to prove their sexuality
Linawato Sidarto has lived in Amsterdam almost as long as she lived in Indonesia, but she says she doesn't think she'll ever be able to feel Dutch.
Global Politics
First- and second-generation Dutch wonder whether they’ll ever be considered locals
Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders campaigns for the 2017 Dutch election in Spijkenisse, a suburb of Rotterdam, on February 18.
Global Politics
Why some immigrants in the Netherlands plan to vote for the ‘Dutch Donald Trump’
After Noor (right) fled Syria with her family, her husband began to be abusive. She now receives counseling and health services at this women's center in Jordan.
Conflict
A women’s health center for Syrian refugees is helping Jordanian women, too
Aicha Hassan left Syria for Lebanon for years ago. She doesn't want to stay in Lebanon, but "I don't intend to go back to Syria, either, even if things get better."
Conflict
For these Syrian women, their 20s have been defined by war
Hiba Bekai's office is her home, where she sews and does other needle work that she sells to Syrians and Lebanese.
Conflict
This Syrian woman never had a paying job at home. Now she’s started a business in Lebanon.