The right to adequate food is by no means a tranquil possession with one single undisputed content. It has been addressed uncountable times with the utmost of urgency. Being one of the prerequisites for a humane life with at least a right to a minimum of existence, this right is embedded in the international …

Achtergrond Online criminaliteit is een veelvoorkomende vorm van criminaliteit geworden. Bij online criminaliteit – en in het bijzonder bij vormen van cybercriminaliteit zoals hacken – wordt snel gedacht aan internationaal opererende dadersgroepen die hun aanvallen in Nederland uitvoeren vanuit verre …

While the right to adequate food is often discussed in the context of developing countries, especially in situations where access to adequate food is a problem on a larger scale, this book focusses on the right to food in two Western countries in which theoretically the circumstances allow this right …

In this book and elsewhere Dutch courts are portrayed as little short of barbaric for rejecting direct applicability of the human right to food. In this contribution I want to revisit case law asking the question if the rejection of direct applicability of the right to food implies that in the Netherlands …

To retrieve new mutants with a cardiac left-right patterning defect a zebrafish (Danio rerio) forward genetic screen was set-up. We were especially interested in the phenotypes that did not show a subsequently affected visceral looping, because genes affected in these mutants are specific for the left-right …

As one of the most attractive Western European countries for refugees, Germany has experienced a large influx of migrants since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. It has the highest influx number of migrants in 2014 since 1992. Since Germany is not prepared to deal with this unexpected …

After decades of rejection of direct applicability of Article 11 ICESCR, recognizing among other things the human right to food including water, a District Court in the Netherlands ruled in June 2008 that the provision can be invoked in a court of law. The decision was inspired by a presumed change of …

Consociationalism is a power-sharing arrangement often recommended to divided societies to avert inter-group conflict and induce stability. The consociational theory has been described by Arend Lijphart following the observation of the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. Based on the example …

A refugee is a person who, for reasons of persecution (or fear hereto), is forced to leave his home and is outside of his home country. Although the great majority of the world's refugees find themselves in third world countries, also wealthier countries are dealing with considerable numbers of migrants …

Writer and researcher Florian Cramer shares some of his research into little known factors influencing the rise of the alt-right - a segment of right-wing ideologies presented as an alternative to mainstream conservatism in the US. His presentation maps the emergence of this large white supremacist subculture, …