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Hanneke Eggels, a Dutch Peace Poet, who we interviewed in October 2013 has kindly agreed to write a series of peace poems this year as part of the Peace Palace Centennial celebrations. Her latest poem is titled ‘Fan of Freedom’.
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Grotius’s Memory Honoured
22-02-2013
These well-known Grotius bibliographers identified three states in the first edition. They concluded that the first edition consists of three groups of copies, to be distinguished according to changes that were made during the print run.
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On January 30, 2013, the court (Rechtbank) in the Hague, The Netherlands, ruled that Royal Dutch Shell can be held partially responsible for pollution in Nigeria's Niger Delta region and ordered it to pay damages to one farmer.
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During an inspection of the luggage of two South Africans last month, officials in Chinese-ruled Macau found 15 suspiciously heavy boxes of chocolate. The boxes appeared to be pieces of elephant tusks with an estimated market value of more than $76,000 U.S. dollars.
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A Nobel Prize for the OPCW’s Work in Syria
17-10-2013
Last Friday, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awarded the
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Google glasses, reality enhancing, wearable computing that allows you to be connected to the net hands free while on the move, is not yet available for consumers.
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Achievements of the ICTY
03-06-2013
Twenty years ago, on 25 May 1993, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 827. With this resolution the international community en
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Several violent and cruel gang rapes in India and South Africa, and the death of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot and killed inside the house of her Olympic athlete boyfriend, have brought the issue of violence against women to the public conscience.
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Library User in the Spotlight: Nino Rukhadze
23-07-2013
'It is a great honor that I hand over the book of the most authoritative international law expert of Georgia, Prof. Levan Alexidze to the Peace Palace Library.
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After studying Art History, I was introduced to the Peace Palace through my sister who worked here as a tour guide for several years and at the end of 2006. I came to work here for the Carnegie Foundation.
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Embassy Centennial Book Project
05-07-2013
To expand the Peace Palace Library's National Law Collection, the Carnegie Foundation for the Centenary of the Peace Palace started the Embassy Book Donation Project in which Embassies in The Hague are requested to donate law books regarding their national laws and legislation.
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Library User in the Spotlight: Michele Hou
05-04-2013
Last month, the Peace Palace Library welcomed Michele Hou, a librarian from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva to visit our Library for a week to exchange knowledge and experience of working in an International Law Library.
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During this year’s ‘Movies that Matter Film Festival’ the Peace Palace Library had the opportunity to interview the Award Winning documentary filmmaker Kimberly Bautista.
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Ms Gbowee was invited to the Peace Palace to unveil the bust of Bertha von Suttner during the celebrations of the Centenary of the Peace Palace on August 28, 2013.
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1. How and why did you become an international lawyer?
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Interview: ICTY Judge Alphons Orie
25-07-2013
The editors of the Peace Palace Library Newsletter are very pleased to publish an interview with Judge Alphons Orie of the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia.
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It was Andrew Carnegie himself who had expressly wished the Dutch Government to select an appropriate site. Nevertheless, a lot of people also made suggestions to this end. Andrew D.