The present-day legal framework for the prevention and combatting of terrorism started in the 1960’s with the adoption of the 1963 Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft. This framework now consists of various multilateral treaties relating to specific categories of terrorist acts as well as several regional conventions on international terrorism in general
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On the first of July this year the Netherlands are commemorating the 150th anniversary of the abolishment of slavery. Although slavery has officially been abolished, the modern slave trade, also called human trafficking, is still continuing, not only in the Netherlands but everywere.But what is human trafficking and what is the distinction between trafficking and human smuggling?
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Hugo Grotius Mare liberum / , 1609-2009
Grotiana: a Journal under the Auspices of the Foundation Grotiana
Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo de Groot: een leven in strijd om de vrede, 1583-1645, Amsterdam, Balans, 2007.
De menschheid en de alcohol / , 1928
Who bought the bomb? / , 1938
Aggression. The Origin of Germany's War Machine. / , 1942
A booklet reprinted by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to commemorate the 2013 Centennial of the Peace Palace in the Hague, Andrew Carnegie’s enduring monument to the cause of international peace and justice.
![Carnegie, A., A League of Peace: a Rectorial Address, delivered to the Students in the University of St. Andrews, 17th October, 1905, New York, Carnegie Corporation of New York, [Reprinted ed.] 2012.](http://www.peacepalacelibrary.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Broch.2012-259.jpg)
Boisson de Chazournes, L., C. Leb and M. Tignino (eds.), International Law and Freshwater: The Multiple Challenges, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2013.
Cooper, A.F., J. Heine and R. Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Cançado Trindade, A.A., El ejercicio de la función judicial internacional: memorias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Belo Horizonte, Del Rey, 2013.
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