A permanent court headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed since its inception in 2002.

The agreement establishing the ICC that has been ratified by 108 countries

The section of the Rome Statute which clearly defines the process and the role of the Office of the Prosecutor and the Pre-Trial Chamber to investigate alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Any grave breach of the Geneva Convention including but not limited to: willfully killing or causing great suffering, torture, unlawful destruction of property, forcibly requiring a person to serve in armed forces, denying a prisoner the right to a fair trial, unlawful deportation or confinement, taking of hostages, intentionally attacking the civi [..]

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group, 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, [..]

Any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation or forcible transfer of population; imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, torture, rape or sexual violence, persecution [..]