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You cannot say you support a values based human rights agenda and have your defense industry dictate the terms of your relationships between states to the extent that you won’t criticize states who you sell weapons to. Heads of state and government do not call each other out! People are tired of seeing the same people suffering time and time again- the groups marginalised through austerity, the pensioners who are on the margins of economic existence and crushed by economic policy, the groups impacted by Covid-19.

People are fed-up, they see the political class becoming more and more self-serving, driven by other motives than the good of the people they represent.

In other words; in national systems, a head of state, head of government or member of parliament is entitled to immunity from criminal prosecution. Vikas was awarded an MBE for Services to Business and the Economy in Her Majesty the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List and in 2021 became a Deputy Lieutenant of the Greater Manchester Lieutenancy.

He played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. Before him are Věra Jourová, Miroslav Kadlec, Augusto Paolo Lojudice, Iliana Iotova, Stephen Colbert, and Musashi Mizushima. That sort of work is intensive, covers many fields, and you have to become an expert in a range of areas.

From 1994-1996, he was a UN civilian peacekeeper with UNPROFOR. After him are Alain Guiraudie, Jorge Drexler, Aziz Nasirzadeh, Joanne Harris, Vivica A. Fox, and Fernando De Napoli.

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Among people born in Jordan, Zeid Raad Al Hussein ranks 31 out of 59.

In 2019, he was appointed a member of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders working for peace, justice and human rights, founded by Nelson Mandela. The principal innovation of the court is enshrined in Article 27 of the Rome Statue which concerns the irrelevancy of official capacity. Look in the Sahel in West Africa, it’s only a matter of time before extremists will take over the entire region.

In January 2014, he served as president of the UN Security Council.

In 2002, he was elected the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Before him are Juan Gualberto González, Fatima Soltan, Yuri Maslyukov, Agathocles of Egypt, Pearlette Louisy, and Carlos Roberto Flores. How many times do you draw breath a day?