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Hans Island: Crisis in the Arctic?
23-02-2012
In 2005, Canadians were witness to a vivid demonstration of their government’s commitment to Arctic sovereignty. In July, a diplomatic row was sparked by two helicopter visits by the Canadian Forces to the island, an apparent response to the commencement of annual Danish naval visits in 2002.
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This evening the XXX Olympic Games will start in London. London has organized the Olympic Games twice: in 1908 and 1948. How will the Court of Arbitration for Sports be involved in Olympic Games in general and in the London Olympics in particular?
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Osaka Rule and Doping at Olympics
10-08-2012
Cheaters have caused a lot of harm to the Olympic movement over the past few decades and it is reasonable for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to wish for clean Olympic Games.
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Senkaku or Diaoyu(tai) Islands?
28-12-2012
The Senkaku/Diaoyu dispute has been close to the boil for months.
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The ICC’s 10th Anniversary
06-07-2012
Ten years ago, on 1 July 2002 the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force.
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Interview with Holland’s most famous International Humanitarian Law Professor Frits Kalshoven
14-05-2012
For students who study international humanitarian law his book “Constraints on the waging of war : an introduction to international humanitarian law”,
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On March 27, documentary filmmakers, Ilse and Femke van Velzen, showed their latest documentary about the Criminal Justice system in the Congo titled Justice for Sale at the Movies that Matter Film Festival in The Hague.
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On Monday March 26 2012, The Peace Palace Library, together with the embassy of Israel in The Hague, invited Judge Gabriel Bach, a Prosecutor in the Trial of Adolf Eichmann to the Peace Palace to give a Lecture to share his memories of what could be considered the most famous trial of the 20th ce
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Ms. Gabriela ‘Gaby’ Saab from Brazil, studying in Brussels, Belgium
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Konichiwa!
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Interview: H.E. Immaculee Uwanyiligira, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda in The Hague
18-12-2012
As 2012 is drawing to a close, we decided that for our final Newsletter we needed to go out with a bang! This is why we've asked H.E.
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On Monday, February the 6th of 2012, the Government offered a draft bill to ban face-covering clothing to the Dutch Parliament. The advic
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If you are a public figure and a celebrity, how much privacy can you expect? How far can a journalist probe into a celebrity’s private life to get news in order to fulfill ‘the right to know’ factor for the public interest?
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Forty years after the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment and twenty years after the first “Earth Summit” held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, the world community will meet again.
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International governance
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Peace Palace Library 2012 in Review
28-12-2012
A lot can happen in 12 months. The year 2012 was an eventful year with positive events and with disasters and luckily it was not the end of the world, as predicted by the Mayan calendar.
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This three volumes set of 555 microfilm reels serves as a guide to all of the League of Nations Documents, published by Research Publications, as part of the microfilm collection League of Nations Documents and Publications, 1919-1946.
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Much of the international community’s attention is currently focused on the sea lanes in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
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One of the World’s most pressing environmental problems is ensuring water for all to drink. For thousands of years humans have consumed water as if it were an inexhaustable natural resource. Vast oceans and abundant rivers do seem to give us this impression.