The Hague

The Hague Convention is a multilateral treaty designed to protect children on the global scale. It mandates child support, abduction, and adoption processes or situations. There are ninety-four countries who are members of the Hague Convention. In the instance that a child is taken without the custodial parent’s permission, and taken across state lines or out of the country, working with the Hague Convention is the fastest method of child retrieval…

The feeling was so widespread by most countries leaders that The 1899 Hague Peace Conference put on record that using aircraft for dropping or shooting from the air during wartime was considered to be a war crime (Hague Convention). It was at that time the conference members decided the role of the airplane could only be used for reconnaissance, thus limiting the airplanes use at the beginning of WWI (Hague Convention). Changing public views and literary fiction started to breed new ideas…

CHAPTER ONE Introduction International Trade has made the world a global village. The superstructure of international trade is built on the shipping industry. The shipping industry is very critical for trade and it faces a fair share of troubles and issues regarding course deviation by ships, seaworthiness of ships, delays in delivery, shipping of dangerous cargo, marine insurance disputes, cargo-worthiness and care of cargo, jurisdictional issues and many other such issues. No country can…

Clouds of something that appeared to be smoke reached the line of soldiers waiting to fight. Immediately, the soldiers began to cough, gag and choke. Their eyes started stinging and watering, and they fell backwards into the trenches. The soldiers tried to duck and avoid the smoke in their dugouts, but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to initiate large-scale…

Viewpoints Bethany Christian Services supports international adoption and will perform any adoption along with providing their ministries (buildingyourfamily.com, 1998). UNICEF supports international adoption but will only perform them if following the Hague Convention guidelines (www.unicef.org,…

A lot of people blame the Hague Convention for the restrictions against international adoption. Over the past 30 years the number of international adoptions has increased tremendously before hitting a peak in 2004. Many thought that these numbers would continue to rise over the years…

diplomatic protection to one of its nationals who is also a national of another country. In other words, no government has the right to put an Individual under diplomatic protection against his/her state. This is also provided in Article 4 of the Hague Convention of 1930, which states that: “A State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a State whose nationality such person also possesses”. Whenever between two or more States, there is a dispute in an…

The Hague Convention of 1917 prevented the mistreatment of prisoners in World War One, in particular, the officers and the ill. Officers were treated as upper class and were not allowed to work as manual labourers or support their captor’s war effort or economy…

The Monarchy of the Netherlands The monarchy of the Netherlands is a very young monarchy. It’s a constitutional monarchy and has been since it’s independence. The Netherlands has been ruled by the House of Orange-Nassau since then. The kingdom has evolved well due to the success of the monarchy. The monarchy itself is very effective due to the governmental system it works off of. So far the country has been mostly a neutral country, by not getting involved in world affairs. However, that…

doption is a great opportunity for couples or potential parents who are not able to have children, to have their own child to love and care for. There are many different reasons people choose to adopt children. Adoption provides a chance for unwanted children to become loved and live a happy life. What would Steve Jobs, President Clinton, or athletes such as Eric Dickerson and Daunte Culpepper have done if they were not adopted? This paper will provide a brief description on the benefits of…