He also urged Israel to ensure accountability for perpetrators of alleged violations.
"Partnership is essential in realising the ambitions of the global strategy, and to ensuring accountability for everyone's actions.
"More efforts are needed to protect civilians from the harms of conflict and to ensure accountability for those deliberately and indiscriminately killing them".
This shows the change of the law was unnecessary; it has only weakened Britain's ability to fulfil its obligations to ensure accountability for war crimes.
If private enterprise, the free market and local authority ensure accountability for failure, as Mr. Tierney insists, then why has there not been a public rolling of heads at United and American Airlines?
Women are uniquely affected by war and their perspectives are indispensable in resolving disputes, ensuring accountability for crimes, minimising the suffering of civilians and designing long-term recovery programmes.
"There also needs to be a level of transparency to the testing program to ensure accountability for who is being tested, what they are being tested for and how often testing is occurring," the statement said.
"I'm not sure it will bring closure to the victims," Mr. Tommy said, but the trial was "a genuine effort to ensure accountability for the crimes in Sierra Leone".
"We believe that walking out in protest is an appropriate reaction to a head of state mocking efforts to ensure accountability for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly when his country has committed to accountability as a state party to the Rome Statute [that established the ICC]," she said.
"While this case breaks new ground for the ICC, we must not lose sight of the need to ensure accountability for other crimes under international law, including murder, rape and torture of civilians that have been committed in Mali since 2012," said Erica Bussey, of Amnesty International.
