Wildfires The story behind the growing threat to our forests Photo by kerry rawlinson on Unsplash Introduction Wildfires are a common natural occurrence. Normally, wildfires remove the layer of dead plants and provide open habitats for plants and animals that are...
LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity: The Importance and How to Improve it “How can we be more LGBTQIA+ inclusive?”. That was the question that the Hague Peace Projects asked me when I started my time as a volunteer here. How do you go about answering such a question, and why is it...
Who are the True Victims of the IP Conflict? I have previously spoken about the conflict between Human Rights and Intellectual Property Rights and stressed the need for a more balanced approach. In this article, I focus on how Traditional Knowledge (TK) is being...
Combating violence against women The protections for women suffering from violence in the United States have recently been strengthened by the passing of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). However, the international legal protections for women in the United States...
Sanctions and Human Rights Over the past two weeks, an unprecedented level of sanctions is being levied against Russia in response to their aggressive action in Ukraine. Although the goal of these sanctions is to help weaken Putin and his government, preventing...
An insight into some expressions that are meaningful to a Ukrainian National Ukraine’s long struggle to be recognised as an independent state with unique identity is more apparent than ever in its current state of crisis. Although Putin refuses to acknowledge that...
Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights The race to find medical treatment and a vaccine for Covid-19 began two years ago and resulted in the some of the most significant innovations of our time. For pharmaceutical companies, winning this race was important not...
According to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Download as PDF Download a PDF version for easier offline reading and sharing List of 30 Basic Human Rights: Congratulations, if you are human you have Human Rights! These are yours to keep and they are the same...
The Hague Peace Projects, a non-profit peace organization based in The Hague, ‘The International City of Peace and Justice’, has joined the mission to “Stop Ecocide” with the specific goal of including ecocide as the fifth crime in the...
Does my Right to Life offend your Freedom? Although the past two years may have been some of the most challenging ones in many of our lifetimes, the world has accomplished much by coming together. The meeting of minds, shared thought and combined actions across the...
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