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Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (2000)

Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act 2000

6 (3) The definitions in this subsection apply in this section.

• “crime against humanity”

«crime contre l’humanité»

“crime against humanity” means murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution or any other inhumane act or omission that is committed against any civilian population or any identifiable group and that, at the time and in the place of its commission, constitutes a crime against humanity according to customary international law or conventional international law or by virtue of its being criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations, whether or not it constitutes a contravention of the law in force at the time and in the place of its commission.

Keywords

Crimes against humanity
Persecution - crimes against humanity
Any other form of sexual violence - crimes against humanity
Civilian population - crimes against humanity
Deportation of population - crimes against humanity
Enforced prostitution - crimes against humanity
Enslavement - crimes against humanity
Extermination - crimes against humanity
Forced pregnancy - crimes against humanity
Imprisonment - crimes against humanity
Murder - crimes against humanity
Other inhumane acts - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on other grounds universally recognised as impermissible under international law - crimes against humanity
Persecution against any identifiable group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds - crimes against humanity
Rape - crimes against humanity
Sexual slavery - crimes against humanity
Torture - crimes against humanity



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