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The ICC’s statute (Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the ICC) provides the most authoritative listing of acts which constitute a ‘crime against humanity’ when committed, knowingly, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population:
* Murder;
* Extermination;
* Enslavement;
* Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
* Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
* Torture; Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
* Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender (…) or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
* Enforced disappearance of persons;
* The crime of apartheid;
* Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
The Rome Statute of the ICC affirms that crimes against humanity can be perpetrated in times of peace. There is no legal requirement for the attack on a civilian population to be linked with armed conflict, whether international or non-international in character. Crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction (see below).
The ICC’s statute (Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the ICC) provides the most authoritative listing of acts which constitute a ‘crime against humanity’ when committed, knowingly, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population:
* Murder;
* Extermination;
* Enslavement;
* Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
* Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
* Torture; Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
* Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender (…) or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
* Enforced disappearance of persons;
* The crime of apartheid;
* Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.
The Rome Statute of the ICC affirms that crimes against humanity can be perpetrated in times of peace. There is no legal requirement for the attack on a civilian population to be linked with armed conflict, whether international or non-international in character. Crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction (see below).
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