De bestuurlijke strafbeschikking is een onderdeel van de 'nieuwe' wet OM-afdoening, en een bestuurlijke punitieve sanctie. Het 'broertje' van de bestuurlijke strafbeschikking, de bestuurlijke boete is daarnaast een regeling die bij deze scriptie van belang is. Het Juridisch Loket wilde mee informatie …

Piracy off the Horn of Africa has become an increasingly salient international issue. The phenomenon of piracy has been forbidden by (international) law since centuries and has taken different forms throughout history. Nowadays piracy is still present in every corner of the world, especially in poor, …

With this report an attempt has been made to answer the following central research question: How can Dutch policy regarding trafficking in human beings be improved to adequately and fully implement a human rights based approach as set in the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking …

Established in 1993, Transparency International (TI) defines itself as “the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption, that brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world”. Its …

This report provides an analysis and evaluation of the position of human trafficking victims in the Netherlands by examining the Dutch B9 regulation; a procedure made for illegal victims of human trafficking aimed at providing shelter and protection for victims and providing facilities for the criminal …

The thesis "Truth Commissions V. Human Rights Violators" examines in how far a truth commission can play a role in the trying of human rights violators. Truth commissions are investigative bodies equipped to examine the truth concerning committed human rights abuses, but they do not have any legal powers. …

Discussing the visibility and cultural factors that inf luence the position of women in the armed forces is the object of the study that is presented here. The Netherlands do not have a martial tradition and are believed to have a feminine ‘soft’ culture , but nevertheless women have always been underrepresented. Nowadays …

In the past years there have been many affairs involving ministerial responsibility. Sometimes the ministers had to resign and sometimes they resigned themselves. The fire at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport which caused two ministers to resign, gave me reason to do research on this subject and to find out …

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The author discusses three elements of the doctrine of superior responsibility. The essence of his article is that superiors can be held criminally responsible for the acts committed by their subordinates