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Will a Dutch man who fought in Syria be stripped of his citizenship?
4 July 2019A Dutch-Moroccan citizen is waiting for a court to decide whether his Dutch nationality will be revoked after he admitted to fighting in Syria. Although his name was removed from the terrorist watch list in 2018, Maher could still lose his Dutch citizenship. ...
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Asser president Hirsch Ballin presents a report on human rights and sustainable development
3 July 2019Sustainable development and human rights policies should go hand in hand, said Asser President Ernst Hirsch Ballin yesterday, when he presented Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Sigrid Kaag and Hans De Boer, Chair of the Dutch employers'...
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Nine scholarships available for the disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme
26 June 2019T.M.C. Asser Instituut is happy to announce that we have nine scholarships available for applicants interested in our disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction training programme. The one-week programme, co-organised with the OPCW, is ta...
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Register now: A special event with Philippe Couvreur on the role of Registrar of the International Court of Justice
24 June 2019On Wednesday July 10, Le Club de Droit and T.M.C. Asser Institute are co-organising an event with Philippe Couvreur, the departing Registrar at the ICJ, at the Peace Palace in The Hague.Mr Philippe Couvreur will give a presentation on the functions and respons...
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Continuing the Chinese-European dialogue on world order
18 June 2019Janne Nijman co-organised a conference on ethical world order in Beijing. Asser’s academic director Janne Nijman co-organised the conference “A Human Community with a Shared Future: Roots of a New Global Legal Order in European and Chinese Civilization” toget...