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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.

Twenty years ago, on 25 May 1993, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 827. With this resolution the international community en

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.

Ten years ago, on 1 July 2002 the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force.

Somalia - a failing state suffering from an internal conflict and from the worst drought in half a century - is in crisis.

If a patient suffers unbearably and when there is no prospect of improvement, some regard the termination of life of the patient as the only option to end the unendurable suffering as quickly as possible.

Animals are treated in an ambivalent way. On the one hand we look at them as adorable animals, which we keep as pets, or which we love and admire from a distance, in a wildlife reserve or behind glass in the zoo. Most pets are loved by their owners - they have a good life.

A legal historical study of the development of international humanitarian law in the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century in the Netherlands.

On Monday the 17th of August 2009 the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law started. The Centre takes place annually at the Academy and Library building of the Peace Palace.

In the Dutch daily 'NCR Handelsblad' Dutch foreign minister Verhagen stated that 'Prosecution should deter pirates, not encourage them with the prospect of starting a new life in the count

McAfee Virtual Criminology Report 2009 According to this report major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war.

The great British international lawyer, Sir Ian Brownlie, died on January 3th 2010, in a car­-accident while on holiday with his family in Egypt. His name is a household word for international law students.

Kelsen, H., Peace through Law, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

A Declaration of Christmas Peace is announced in several Finnish cities on Christmas Eve. The oldest and most popular event is held at noon at the Old Great Square of the former Finnish capital Turku, where the declaration has been read since the 1320s.

Only five months after the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, on and around Christmas Day 1914, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding faded in a number of places along the Western Front in favor of holiday celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies.

Peace is an elusive thing. Everyone wants peace, yet few seem to actually possess it in any substantive form. For many, the attraction of the Christmas season is the momentary fulfillment of that dream, the wonderful moment of 'Peace on Earth'. For one night, it seems possible.

All armed conflicts are covered by the basic rules and principles of the laws of war, wherever the theatre of operations might be, land, sea or air. Some treaty and customary law specifically refers to certain aspects of aerial warfare.

Three Hague-based organizations, T.M.C.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 to Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-vio

Book Review Abbenhuis, M., Ch.E. Barber and A.R. Higgins (eds.), War, Peace and International Order?: The Legacies of The Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, London and New York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.