Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
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(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.
For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(a)
"Attack directed against any civilian population" means a course of conduct
involving the multiple commission of acts referred to in paragraph 1
against any civilian population, pursuant to or in furtherance of a State or
organizational policy to commit such attack;
(b)
"Extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter
alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about
the destruction of part of a population;
(c)
"Enslavement" means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the
right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in
the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;
(d)
"Deportation or forcible transfer of population" means forced displacement
of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the
area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under
international law;
(e)
"Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether
physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the
accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only
from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;
(f)
"Forced pregnancy" means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly
made pregnant, with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any
population or carrying out other grave violations of international law. This
definition shall not in any way be interpreted as affecting national laws
relating to pregnancy;
(g)
"Persecution" means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental
rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or
collectivity;
(h)
"The crime of apartheid" means inhumane acts of a character similar to those
referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized
regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any
other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining
that regime;