This research report describes which legal instruments play a role in cases concerning international child abduction with a focus on, the most important legal text, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, hereinafter the Hague Convention or HCCA. The purpose of this …

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 …

This thesis attempts to answer the main question, which is: "Do the Polish, and in particular those in Silesia, currently feel prejudice towards Germany and, if so, what is being done to address and change this negativity?" This question has to be divided into two parts: whether the Polish, and in particular …

Sectoral levelling funds are an arrangement aimed at alleviating a well-known theoretical problem of underinvestment in worker training due to free-rider behaviour of firms. In The Netherlands, collective agreements require firms to participate in such funds in a number of sectors. Using a comprehensive …

Het landschap is, zeker de laatste jaren, aan veranderingen onderhevig. Sterker dan ooit beseft de mens dat men zich in moet zetten voor behoud en herstel van het landschap. Gegrepen door de schoonheid van het landschap en de intentie van de nieuw gevormde Groene en Blauwe Diensten zijn wij ons verder …

Enterprise 2.0, deconstructed firms, organisational ecosystems: all of these buzzwords are used to identify operating concepts behind today's companies. They are driven by the need to be agile, flexible, distributed, open, transparent, simple, on demand and with a short time to market. In order to be …

In 2000 the European Union (EU) signed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a United Nations (UN) policy in order to reduce poverty until 2015 by half compared to the figures from 2000. The EU is fully committed to the achievement of these internationally established MDGs which aim to end poverty …

Onderzoek naar de inrichting van de servicedesk binnen de overheidsinstelling CAOP om tot een optimalisatieslag te komen. Onderzoeksvraag is op welke wijze de servicedesk binnen het CAOP transparant en efficiënt kan worden ingericht, zodat de klantverwachting en aangeboden dienstverlening ten behoeve …

De missie van de Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) is dat zij de beste, servicegerichte en omgevingsbewuste uitvoerder zijn van persoonsgebonden financiële regelingen van de overheid. Ook de dienstverlening zal deze missie moeten uitvoeren. Vanaf 2009 zal er gewerkt worden met een gezamenlijk jaarplan, …

Nepal and the Netherlands are two different countries. The Netherlands is lying in Europe and Nepal is a part of Asia (z.a. 2008). Also the education is a little different. In the Netherlands there are many types of schools; primary education, secondary education, special need primary education, special …