Article 427
Whoever, in violation of the rules of international law, as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, orders any of the following: murders; deliberately inflicting on the population or parts thereof conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; enslavement; forcible transfer of population; torture; rape; enforced prostitution; forced pregnancy or enforced sterilization with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of the population; persecution or expulsion on political, religious, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, gender or other grounds; detention or abduction of persons followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law; oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group; or other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to health; or who commits any of the foregoing acts shall be punished by a prison sentence for a term not shorter than five years or a long-term prison sentence.
1. For the purpose of this Statute, ‘crime against humanity’ means 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:
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime within the jurisdiction of the Court;
2. For the purpose of paragraph 1:
(g) ‘Persecution’ means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;
3. For the purpose of this Statute, it is understood that the term ‘gender’ refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. The term ‘gender’ does not indicate any meaning different from the above.