Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

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article of an international treaty provision of international criminal law

Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is the provision that defines the crime of genocide for the Court’s jurisdiction, closely reflecting the definition established in international law.

Aliases (1)

Article III of the Genocide Convention ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	article of an international treaty → provision of international criminal law →
adoptedAt	United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court →
adoptionDate	17 July 1998 →
adoptionPlace	Rome →
appliesInContext	situations referred to the International Criminal Court →
appliesTo	International Criminal Court →
basedOn	Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide →
bindingOn	States Parties to the Rome Statute →
citesConcept	partial destruction of a protected group → physical destruction of a protected group →
crimeCategory	core international crime → crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court →
dateEffective	1 July 2002 →
defines	crime of genocide →
definesAct	causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group → deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part → forcibly transferring children of the group to another group → imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group → killing members of the group →
definesElement	intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such →
definesProtectedGroup	ethnical group → national group → racial group → religious group →
enteredIntoForceWith	Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court →
influencedBy	Genocide Convention of 1948 →
interpretedInLightOf	Elements of Crimes of the International Criminal Court → Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Criminal Court →
jurisdictionOver	genocide →
languageVersion	Arabic → Chinese → English → French → Russian → Spanish →
legalEffect	establishes elements of the crime of genocide for ICC jurisdiction →
legalSystem	international law →
locatedInInstrument	Part 2 of the Rome Statute →
neighboringProvision	Article 5 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court → Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court →
partOf	Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court →
reflects	definition of genocide in customary international law →
requiresMentalElement	specific intent (dolus specialis) →
subjectMatter	genocide →
typeOfCrimeDefined	crime not subject to statute of limitations under international law →
usedBy	Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court →
usedFor	charging genocide before the International Criminal Court →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide →	influenced
Article VII (Genocide Convention) ("Article III of the Genocide Convention") →	relatedTo