If the ICC's preliminary examination finds evidence of crimes against humanity, Duterte's declaration would not shield him from prosecution, as withdrawal takes a year after the U.N. is notified, and pulling out does not retroactively revoke the court's jurisdiction.
The musicians are playing for Mauthausen survivors, their families and the public: "a declaration of humanity on a site of horror," says Clemens Hellsberg, the orchestra's president; a gesture of "remembrance, repentance and homage," in Sir Simon's words.
The study followed the Swedish guidelines for studies of social science and humanities according to the Declaration of Helsinki.
Literacy was in its own way a declaration of independence and humanity for a people long denied both.
This violence against protesters resulted in arout 150 deaths, scores of women raped in public, and the declaration of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Echoing Dyne's earlier declaration on the strength of humanity, Alex's team attacks and defeats Ghaleon as his fortress crumbles around them.
For their part, Brown and the other local leaders signed a declaration stating that "human-induced climate change is a scientific reality, and its effective control is a moral imperative for humanity".
Was it a declaration of idealism, of faith in humanity despite everything, or was it "an act of extreme sarcasm", having children sing of values whose hollowness was being exposed just yards away?
And while some humanities scholars have embraced evolutionary ideas, many others will roll their eyes at his declaration, in a chapter on the arts, that the humanities will achieve a "full maturing" only when they take account of findings in cognitive science and genetics.
This is Solomon's own declaration of independence, and an assertion of his humanity that sustains him.
