'Enforced sterilisation - crimes against humanity' in document 'Fiji - Crimes decree 2009'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 3 — Crimes Against Humanity

Crime against humanity—enforced sterilisation

92.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if —

(a) the perpetrator deprives one or more persons of biological reproductive capacity ; and
(b) the deprivation is not effected by a birth-control measure that has a non-permanent effect in practice ; and
(c) the perpetrator’s conduct is neither justified by the medical or hospital treatment of the person or persons nor carried out with the consent of the person or persons ; and
(d) the perpetrator’s conduct is committed intentionally or knowingly as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. 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:
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity