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Local high school students snap photos of The Hague for Human Rights Day
5 December 2019To commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in collaboration with Humanity House and the Visual Human Rights project, invited forty high school students from The Hague to participate in the workshop “Human rights visualised.” The...
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[TV Interview] Asser researcher speaks about France's role in Sahel and counter-terrorism policies
4 December 2019Asser researcher Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi spoke live on France24’s ‘The Debate’ on France's role in Sahel, the London bridge attack and the fight against terrorism. On 26 November 2019, a helicopter collision killed 13 French troops pursuing Islamic militants i...
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Watch the full annual Asser lecture by Prof. Anne Orford
29 November 2019Prof. Anne Orford addressed a room packed with guests at our Fifth Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture on November 28 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. In her speech, Orford said that international treaties need to be more social, democratic and ecological so that the...
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Asser researcher wins NWO grant to research AI in the military context
27 November 2019Asser researcher Dr Berenice Boutin has won a research grant of €615.000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) for the research project “Agency and Compliance by Design in Military AI Technologies”. Bou...
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Speaker Anne Orford: “International treaties can and must be more social”
26 November 2019Ahead of her Fifth T.M.C. Asser Lecture on Thursday November 28, Prof. Anne Orford spoke to Dutch newspaper NRC about the need for a fundamental ‘decolonisation of international law’ as we know it. In an interview with NRC journalist Caroline de Gruyter, Orfor...