Hester den Boer (°1981) is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist and photographer. 

She holds a BA in Comparative Religious Studies, a BA in Russian Language and Culture and a MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam.

Her stories have been published in various Dutch media such as De Groene Amsterdammer and NRC. In 2019 she released the non-fiction book and photo project 'Onderdrukt door de Verlosser'.

 

Hester den Boer

Info

Name
Hester den Boer
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
Investigative journalism & photography
Country
Netherlands
City
Amsterdam
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Supported projects

Return of the Red Diesel

  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Tax Evasion

POPPEL - Dutch tractors cross the border day and night via small sandy roads to refuel more cheaply in Belgium. Since the Netherlands abolished the tax benefit for red diesel in 2013, cross-border trade has flourished with hardly any controls.

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Rode Diesel Tank

One-way Ticket From Tashkent

  • Exploitation
  • Social Affairs
  • Work

WARSAW/AMSTERDAM/ANTWERP - Europe’s growing labour shortages in sectors like agriculture, logistics, transport, and hospitality are increasingly being filled by a new and highly vulnerable group – migrant workers from Central Asia. Many travel via Poland and end up, through opaque and exploitative channels, in vulnerable situations in the Netherlands and Belgium. 

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One-way Ticket From Tashkent

Non-Transportable Livestock

  • Agriculture
  • Transport

AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS - Belgium acts as a bin for the Dutch livestock industry.

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The new Nederbelg

  • Migration
  • Cities

ESSEN/HOOGSTRATEN/PUTTE - Belgian real estate agents are seeing more and more Dutch people moving across the border, in a desperate attempt to find an affordable house in the border region. What does that do to life in a border region. Apache and OC Spit traveled from Essen across Hoogstraten to Putte and spoke with owners.

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Great Belgian hunger for Zeeland's farmland

  • Agriculture

ZEELAND - To whom does the Dutch province of Zeeland belong? Partly to Belgians, who own up to a fifth of the agricultural land in the southernmost part of the province. The Dutch research collective Spit and the Belgian platform Apache went in search of the large landowners and answered the question: why are they active there?

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