![]() As crimes against humanity have come also to be applicable in times of peace the standards of humanitarian law have been replaced by those of human rights law. All crimes against humanity used to be only applicable to acts committed in an armed conflict and therefore humanitarian law was the standard against which the, "inhumanity," of an act was judged. By the Rome Statute and the establishment the International Criminal Court other, "inhumane acts," have come to encompass a wide array of acts. Crimes against humanity typically include acts such as murder, extermination and enslavement but also the rather enigmatic catch-all clause of, "other inhumane acts." This article attempts to examine how this notion is construed and developed as well as the material extent of it: What are the concrete acts that might constitute such an, "inhumane act."The concept of, "other inhumane acts," was coined in the Nuremberg Statute, but its extent has changed significantly as has that of international criminal law as a whole. The content of this group of offenses has differed over time and depending on the context of their application. ![]() ![]() ![]() Crimes against humanity are some of the core crimes in international criminal law and now often also criminalized by national criminal statutes. ![]()
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