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The institute to examine whether russias actions have breached the genocide convention. we put together three teams of experts, open-source intelligence experts, language experts, and an army of lawyers, over 35 of the top legal minds that examined the oevidence, an the conclusions were very clear that this russian federation is in clear breach of the genocide convention. they bear state responsibility for the incitement to committing genocide, and theres a pattern of their atrocities that indic...

Trade unionists, political activists and workers on Sunday demanded that the government raise the wages of labourers in proportion to the price hike, withdraw all anti-worker policies and allow...

Deicing a powerful storms coming through, but, again, that is where we are at with both omicron and the winter weather. >> in the meantime the supreme court of united states is going to hear legal challenges this week to joe bidens petrel federal fixing mandate. all this up the administration says that the omicron surge needs to be handled at the state level. here is joe biden. >> look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved at the state level. and it ultimately gets down to where the ru...

Is intertwined. and thats why its not a small thing. you know, this court has the ability. were not dealing with state responsibility. were dealing with individual criminal responsibility, the personal responsibility and accountability of ones own actions. i think we need to work together, and we need to not lose hope even in these desperately uncertain times. i think theres this realization that we need the law more now than ever. and it requires sanity to come back into the room. sanity has le...

Destruction against his neighbors in ukraine? against anyone? >> well, first of all, hes already entered a large zone in the war of aggression, and this would simply be another frankly state responsibility use, you cannot use chemical weapons in modern times because theres no legality in the use of chemical weapons in modern times, and he crossed another threshold, one with war crimes and crimes against humanity, and he would cross yet another one which is to use prohibited weapons that are so d...

With state responsibility. were dealing with individual criminal responsibility. the personal responsibility of&accountability of ones own actions. i think we need to work together. and we need to not lose hope even in these desperate times. we need the law more now than ever. it requires sanity to come back into the room. sanity has left the building. a lot of them this is does not make strategic sense, military sense, economic sense. time will tell. but folly upon folly, the way people pay the...

More difficult case by case to say a particular russian officer or general in the field is related to that particular hit. thats the stuff of war crimes investigations. we have been doing it well for 30 years. that will ultimately be produced. i think its important to emphasize that this is also state responsibility. mr. putin represents the country of russia. russia has committed the ultimate crime which is the crime of aggression. under that umbrella, all of the other crimes are being committe...

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If South Africa takes these international law obligations seriously it should reverse its position immediately and give up on the ‘quisling’ double-speak about Russia’s aggression and crimes.

Finance secretary T V Somanathan on Monday said healthcare is primarily the responsibility of the states