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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Oomoto (monthly) / , 1928
De tocht van de "Deutschland" / , 1917?
25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog / , 1929
Nellen, H.J.M., Hugo de Groot: een leven in strijd om de vrede, 1583-1645, Amsterdam, Balans, 2007.
Mare Liberum
De iure belli ac pacis libri tres (1st state) / , 1625
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)
Clément, M., Droit européen de l'environnement, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2012.
Schmeier, S., Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes, London, Earthscan from Routledge, 2013.
Samson, A., World War I in Africa: the Forgotten Conflict among the European Powers, London, Tauris, 2013.
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