About Rose: I grew up in Singapore, lived in Melbourne but currently call London home. I love gastronomic adventures, especially while travelling. I stated writing at 17 to remember how it all began.
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05 February 2009
thursday; 9.49pm
I started work this week with the Hague Conference on Private International Law and there's something about starting your first day at a Special Commission which convenes to review four treaties that await accession/ signature/ ratification. For the most part it overwhelms you when you realise you're watching international law being made and then there's also getting used to walking over to the Peace Palace to work everyday (for the next two weeks at least).
Peace Palace
Special Commission of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
Overlooking the Peace Palace
My seat in the Special Commission
Then yesterday, the Dutch delegate took us on a tour of the Peace Palace and we got access to areas normally not opened to the public. It was such a privilege and beyond amazing to be standing in the court room were the ICJ sits and realise that just a day ago, they bench had rendered it's (first unanimous) judgment in the case between Romania and Ukraine regarding maritime boundaries. We saw other rooms, learned of its history and walked through the libraries where the papers from the Nuremburg trial are archived.
ICJ
Where the Permanent Court of Arbitration sits
corridors of the Peace Palace
where history is made
"I'll count the stars tonight, and hope with all my might That when I close my eyes, you'll be right by my side" -all my only dreams, the wonders
