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Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
PART 2.
JURISDICTION, ADMISSIBILITY AND APPLICABLE LAW
Article 5
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Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court
The jurisdiction of the Court shall be limited to the most serious crimes of concern to the international
community as a whole. The Court has jurisdiction in accordance with this
Statute with respect to the
following crimes:
(a) The crime of genocide;
(b) Crimes against humanity;
(c) War crimes;
(d) The crime of aggression.
Article 6
Genocide
For
the purpose of this Statute, "genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c)
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in
whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
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For the purpose of this Statute, "crime against humanity" means any of the following
acts when committed as
part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of
international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or
any other form
of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural,
religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, 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;
(i)
Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j)
The
crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to
body or to mental or physical health.
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Paragraph 2 of article 5 (“The Court shall exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression once a provision is adopted in accordance with
articles 121 and 123 defining the crime and setting out the conditions under which the Court shall exercise jurisdiction
with respect to this
crime. Such a provision shall be consistent with the relevant provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.”) was deleted in accordance with
RC/Res.6, annex I, of 11 June 2010.