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'UN needs to pay more attention to plastics'

The return meeting at Museon features Hajar Yagkoubi (19) as a guest. She is Youth Ambassador Human Rights & Security and regularly visits the United Nations (UN) in New York to represent young people by setting up actions and projects. "I came...

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The Hague testing ground for the UN?

The Hague proudly carries the motto 'city of peace and justice' in its coat of arms. It is quite a claim, but a justified one. Over the past century, our city has made a name for itself worldwide in the quest for a more peaceful and just society. That ambition...

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'Without the UN, the world will not be a better place'

We are here in the Peace Palace in The Hague, the cathedral of international law. When did you first become acquainted with the Peace Palace? Alanna O'Malley: "I'm from Ireland and, as a student, of course I knew the pictures. In 2011, I came to The...

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How does the gardener of the Peace Palace live?

How on earth do you become a gardener at the Peace Palace? You really need a wheelbarrow for that, you might think. But that wasn't the case in 1987, when Dolf van Eendenburg (1955, Poeldijk) applied for the vacancy 'Gardener wanted for estate...

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