Rome Statute
Part 2: Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Applicable Law

Article Art. 6
Genocide

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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.

Source: Article 6 — Genocide, https://www.­icc-cpi.­int/Publications/Rome-Statute.­pdf.

Last Updated

Aug. 30, 2023

Art. 6’s source at icc-cpi​.int