Article 7 defines crimes against humanity as acts when “committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.” Under this, it lists the following acts:

• murder;

• extermination;

• enslavement;

• deportation or forcible transfer of population;

• imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

• torture;

• rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;

• persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law;

• enforced disappearance of persons;

• the crime of apartheid;

• other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.