A large number of senators have voted in favour of amending the Dutch Constitution so it explicitly bans discrimination based on disability and sexual orientation.
The amendment proposal received a landslide number of votes calling in favour of adding disability and sexual orientation to the Constitution, according to NOS.
Currently, Article One of the Dutch Constitution disallows discrimination on the grounds of religion, beliefs, race, sex or any other ground.
The D66 (a social-liberal political party in the Netherlands) , GroenLinks (green party) and PvdA (Labour Party) put forward a political proposal to add disability and sexual orientation to Article One.