International Organisations in The Hague

The Peace Palace, the premises on which it stands and the Library are the property of the Carnegie Foundation. The Foundation encourages the organisation of seminars and other initiatives to foster the peace ideal and is part ...

Last modified: 18 June 2012

The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) – The Hague is an independent knowledge centre that focuses on creating, collating and disseminating information related to the preventative and international legal aspect ...

Last modified: 1 June 2010

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

Last modified: 27 September 2012

The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal which prosecutes individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Last modified: 6 August 2012

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in 1993 by a United Nations Security Council resolution to address the serious violations of international humanitarian law which have been ...

Last modified: 10 September 2010

The Hague region is home to more than 80 international organisations (including NGOs) working in the field of peace and justice as a result of its rich legacy in international politics.

Last modified: 19 February 2013

The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal came into existence as one of the measures taken to resolve the crisis in relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America arising out of the detention of ...

Last modified: 1 June 2010

The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency is a key pillar of the NATO Secretary General’s Smart Defence and Connected Forces initiatives.

Last modified: 4 April 2013

In addition to the large and well-known organisations as the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague also plays host to a large number of non-governmental orga ...

Last modified: 6 August 2012

After the Chemical Weapons Convention was signed in Paris in 1993, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was established in 1997 to monitor the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) ...

Last modified: 6 July 2012