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Meeting the Four Freedoms Award Laureates in The Hague
6 June 2018The laureates of the four freedoms awards this year (a diplomat, a journalist, a Bishop, a conservationist, and an ardent human rights activist) are people fighting their battles on different fronts, but they all have one aim in common: to make the world a bet...
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Asser Researcher Receives Funding for a Project on Autonomous Military Technologies and State Responsibility
5 June 2018In May 2018, Asser researcher Dr Bérénice Boutin was awarded research funding by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung to conduct an eighteen-month research project on the ‘Conceptual and Policy Implications of Increasingly Autonomous Military Technologies for State Respo...
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Moving Forward Five Years after the Rana Plaza Collapse
31 May 2018The collapse of the Rana Plaza building on 24 April 2013 in Bangladesh, left at least 1,134 people dead and over 2,500 others wounded, while survivors and the families of the dead continue to suffer trauma in the aftermath of the disaster. On 12 April, the ev...
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Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz Visits the Asser Institute
30 May 2018The last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor and international criminal law champion Benjamin Ferencz paid a surprise visit to the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, on 28 May, to kick off the 12th edition of the Annual Summer Law Programme on International Criminal Law and I...
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Call for Papers - Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 21 (2018)
29 May 2018General Theme: Weapons Law In recent years numerous developments have again highlighted the importance of Weapons Law for preventing and regulating armed conflict. The use of chemical weapons in Syria, the ups-and-downs of the Iranian Nuclear Deal or the poli...