BRUSSELS SIGHTSEEING 10 (From Brussels Tramway Museum to Brussels Law Courts and back)
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Brussels Tramway Museum - Boulevard du Souverain - Avenue Delleur - Chausée de Lahulpe - Avenue Franklin Roosevelt - Simon Bolivar Statue - Francisco Ferrer Statue - Théodre Verhaegen Statue - Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - Air Heros Statue - Avenue Louise - Place Louise - Place Poelaert
1. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar (1793 - 1830)
y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco Statue: generally known as SIMON BOLIVAR and also colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator, was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led the independence of what are currently the states of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama from the Spanish Empire. Bolívar was born into a wealthy, aristocratic Criollo family Bolívar fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important ones, and during his campaigns rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more than Hannibal, three times more than Napoleon, and twice as much as Alexander the Great. Bolívar is viewed as a national icon in much of modern South America, and is considered one of the great heroes of the Hispanic independence movements of the early 19th century, He is considered of being the most genius tactician of South-America.
2. Francisco Ferrer Guardia (1859–1909)
Francesco Ferrer was a radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and liberals, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
3. Théodore Verhaegen (1796 - 1862) Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician, known as the founder of the Free University of Brussels. He was twice chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 28 June 1848 to 28 September 1852 and from 17 December 1857 to June 1859. He was born in Brussels, where he lived his whole life, and part of a Catholic family of lawyers from the region of Haacht. The Verhaegens had an academic background; two of them had been principals of the University of Leuven. Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, his godfather, had been the last headmaster (rector) of the Old University of Louvain, before it was closed by the French revolutionary troops. The family went on to become part of the Catholic elite of Belgium, and was raised to the nobility, which Pierre-Théodore always refused.
4. Université Libre de Bruxelles (1834 - 1969)
The Free University was initially funded by private subscriptions from Liberal and freemasonic groups and encountered financial difficulties because of the lack of state subsidy. However, it grew significantly over following decades. In 1842, it moved to the Palais Granvelle. It expanded the number of subjects taught and, in 1880, became one of the first institutions in Belgium to allow female students to study in some faculties. In 1893, it received large grants from Ernest and Alfred Solvay and Raoul Warocqué to open new faculties in the city. The Solvay School of Commerce was founded in 1904.
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LLM at Harvard Law School: Sarah Panis
- Sarah Panis received a BOAS scholarship from the Fulbright Commission in Belgium in order to obtain an LLM in America. In this video she discusses the application process for Fulbright grants and talks about her stay at Harvard Law School in the U.S.
Euthanasia in Belgium: The most recent legal developments and policy challenges
Professor Sigrid Sterckx, MA, PhD
End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium
In 2002, euthanasia by a physician (the intentional termination of a patient’s life at his or her request) was depenalized in Belgium for adults and emancipated minors. In 2014, the law was extended to competent minors, without an age limit. The frequency of performance of euthanasia is rising very rapidly, having more than doubled in the last five years (accounting for one death in twenty, about 8 per day in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region). Moreover, although the prevalence of euthanasia remains highest in patients with cancer, a clear shift is visible in the characteristics of patients who request euthanasia and whose requests are granted. The largest increases are among women, and those aged 80 or older, with lower education levels, and dying in nursing homes.
The patient must be “in a medical condition, without prospect of improvement, of constant and unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be alleviated, resulting from a serious and incurable disorder caused by illness or accident”. Euthanasia is becoming ever more common in cases of non-physical suffering. Moreover, epidemiological data and preliminary interview data suggest that euthanasia requests for ‘tiredness of life’ are becoming an increasingly major issue.
This talk will focus on two very recent legal developments: the ruling by the Belgian Constitutional Court on 29 October 2015 on appeals to annul the extension of the euthanasia law to children; and the very first referral of a euthanasia case to the Public Prosecutor on 27 October 2015 (a tiredness of life case). The second topic will be discussed in the context of the establishment of a task force of the Belgian National Advisory Committee on Bioethics on the meaning of the concept ‘psychological suffering’ in the law. Professor Sterckx serves as Rapporteur for this task force, which was set up at the request of the Secretary of State for Health due to concerns regarding the increasingly broad interpretation of the legal criteria for euthanasia.
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Respondent: Christine Mitchell, Executive Director, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Moderator: Holly Fernandez Lynch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
This event is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Camman Fund.
Court outlines verdict against Islamic group
A court in Antwerp has classified a radical Islamic group known as Sharia4Belgium as a terrorist organisation, court house spokesman Ronald Cassiers said on Wednesday.
The court ruled that the group, which recruited youngsters to fight in Syria, wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law.
Sharia4Belgium's leader Fouad Belkacem was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment and dozens of other members also received prison sentences.
The court concluded that Sharia4Belgium is a terrorist group, just as the two Syrian groups that were joined by different members of Sharia4Belgium, said Cassiers.
Several accused are condemned as leaders, others as active members of a terrorist group, he added.
The verdicts came in one of Belgium's biggest ever trials involving suspected extremists - 46 Muslims were originally indicted, though only a handful appeared in court.
Others are believed to be fighting with Sunni armed groups in Syria or to have died in its civil war.
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euronews right on - The complications of international divorce
Love knows no boundaries, but when it comes to separation things can get complicated. Each year in the European Union, more than one divorce in 10 involves a couple who do not share the same nationality.
Euronews spoke to Marie, a French mother has been living a nightmare ever since divorcing her German ex-husband, four years ago, she showed us the void that was left in her life without her children there:
This is Astrid's room, she said. My daughter who comes once a month for a weekend. It is the visiting rights that I've had to fight hard for and so far it's been respected. On the other hand, my son has his room waiting for him. The wardrobe is full of his clothes. Things that I bought two years ago which he has never worn.
Marie has just moved to Saarbrucken in Germany in the hope of seeing more of her children who are six and nine. The German authorities revoked custody rights saying she imposes an abduction risk, when the father filed a complaint after she took the children on holiday to France without his consent.
I fought for 18 months to at least try to see my children, said Marie. Every time I tried to approach them, the police were called either by the school, family or someone else. They thought I was there to take my children away.
Instead of helping to fix things, I have the opposite feeling, the German justice system makes things worse for the parent who's already abroad and finding it difficult, so there's really the impression that whatever we do we are prejudged.
Isolation and lack of knowledge of the laws and attitudes in a foreign country often exacerbate conflicts. In family law, the rules vary widely among cultures. That is why legal tools have had to be developed to treat cross-border cases.
The issue of parents abducting children is dealt with by the Hague Convention and EU law known as Brussels II bis. In most cases the child is returned quickly to their country of origin.
Jean-Patrick Revel, a Franco-German family affairs lawyer explained in more detail.
This regulation hands jurisdiction to the court where the child lived with its family before the separation. It is the judge in that country that holds a hearing and makes a ruling on custody, where there will be an investigation to see what is best for the child
Brussels based NGO, Child Focus, is familiar with these issues. It manages calls to the European emergency number for missing children, 116 000. In about one in four cases, it is a parental abduction.
Hilde Demarré the Child Focus project manager said:
We saw in Germany, for instance, that they had 700 cases last year, so we see that this is a problem that arises more and more within Europe. We also know that there are about 170,000 international divorces within the European Union each year, so we know that this is a problem that will continue to grow.
The NGO supports parents who are victims. Gerd Blömer-Pohl a German citizen and a father of three, was living in Belgium with his Ukrainian wife when one day everything changed.
I returned from my work on a Friday night, and the apartment was empty. The furniture was still there but the kids were gone along with my wife. I didn't understand, the phone was disconnected, for a few days I was going crazy, he said.
It took several months to locate the mother, who had moved across the border to Germany. To resolve this type of conflict, along with judicial measures, amicable solutions are often the most effective. Hilde Demarré is convinced of this, and has just started a European network of family mediators.
We try to find family mediators or mediators in every EU country, also some candidate countries, which we gave training, they all came to Brussels to do 60 to 80 hours training and they learn to work together in mediation. We have a model of co-mediation, working with one mediator from each country, and they were trained to mediate together in one single model.
The German NGO MiKK is a partner of this project. It specialises in mediation of international child abduction cases. Christoph Paul is both a lawyer and mediator for the organisation, he said:
It is the parents who find a solution, who are responsible for the child, the parents who are the experts of the child's life
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Belgium constitutional court has ruled that the rights laws for transgender people must be relaxed. The court's now ruled that asking for a gender should either be removed from birth certificates or more options added.
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1. Brussels sprouts really do come from Belgium and have grown in the Brussels area for over 400 years.
2. Although the exact number is disputed, Belgium makes over 800 different beers. Belgians drink an average of 150 litres of beer per year per person.
3. Belgium produces 220,000 tons of chocolate per year. That’s about 22kg of chocolate per person in Belgium.
4. Belgium has one of the lowest proportions of McDonald’s in the developed world. It has 7 times fewer McDonald’s restaurants than the USA and 2 times less than France.
5. Belgians tend to be liberal thinkers. They legalised euthanasia in 2002, and gay marriage in 2003.
6. Belgium has compulsory education up to 18 years old. This is one of the highest in the world.
7. Belgium also has enforced compulsory voting.
8. Belgians pay some of the highest tax rates in the world, around 40% of their gross earnings. Taxation represents 45.6 % of the country’s GDP.
9. Belgium grants the most new citizenships per capita in the world after Canada. 1.6 million people in Belgium are immigrants or children or grandchildren of immigrants. That’s 15% of the population.
10. Belgium has the highest density of roads and railroads in the world. It is the country with the 3rd most vehicles per square kilometre after the Netherlands and Japan. Because of the quantity of lights, the Belgian highway system is the only man-made structure visible from the moon at night.
11. The longest tramway line in the world is the Belgian coast tram (68 km), which operates between De Panne and Knokke-Heist, from the French border to the Dutch border.
12. Spa, Belgium is home to Europe’s first modern health resort, opened in the 18th century and Europe’s first casino, “la Redoute”, opened in 1763.
13. Belgium was the scene of Napoleon’s final defeat, at Waterloo, south of Brussels.
14. The Law Courts of Brussels is the largest court of justice in the world (26,000 m² at ground level). It is bigger than Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
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19. In the 15th century, Belgians were credited with inventing oil painting.
20. 80% of billiard players use Belgian-made balls.
LLM at the University of Chicago: Orestis Omran
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The legal Transitions Regarding Workplace Accidents in the Western Industrializing World
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Belgian court clears Spanish rapper, refuses Spain extradition request
(17 Sep 2018) BELGIAN COURT CLEARS SPANISH RAPPER, REFUSES SPAIN EXTRADITION REQUEST
A Belgian court has ruled that Spanish rapper Valtonyc should not be sent back to Spain, where he was sentenced to prison and accused of writing lyrics that praise terror groups and insult the royal family.
The rapper, whose real name is Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran, was supposed to turn himself in voluntarily to Spanish authorities in May to serve a two-year sentence, but instead fled to Belgium.
His lawyer Simon Bekaert said Monday (17 SEPT. 2018) that the judge has decided there will be no extradition and discarded all three charges.
Bekart told reporters near the court in Ghent that the judge ruled there is no terrorism involved, so there is no question of a crime according to Belgian law.
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Islamic militants threaten Belgium with more attacks
The Islamic State has posted a chilling video online purporting they will carry out more attacks on Belgium.
In the video, a man speaks in Dutch threatening to carry out more attacks in Belgium for fighting its militants.
You have learned nothing from the lessons of Paris because you are fighting Islam and Muslims. The Brussels attacks are the harvest of what you sow with your own hands.
The man identified as Hicham Chaib has been under the radar of Belgian authorities since last year for…
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PLO Lumumba is interviewed by Ben Opara, the Vice President of the Lowell, Massachusetts African Cultural Association. The interview took place on January 30, 2018 at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation, the community media center in Lowell. Dan Toomey is responsible for the production of the video
Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba is a Kenyan who served as the Director of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission from September 2010 to August 2011[2] and is currently the Director of The Kenya School of Laws since the year 2014.[3] An eloquent lawyer, he holds a PhD in Laws of the sea from the University of Ghent in Belgium. He is also a staunch Pan-Africanist and has delivered several powerful speeches alluding to or about African solutions to African problems.
Ben Opara, an American Citizen, is originally from Nigeria.
Belgium: Islamic party says, “Our goal is a 100% Islamic State…establishing Sharia law”
Belgium: Islamic party says, “Our goal is a 100% Islamic State…establishing Sharia law”
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John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
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