Definition: Crimes against humanity

Category: Crime statistics

Crimes such as murder, extermination, rape, persecution and all other inhumane acts of a similar character (wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to the body or to mental or physical health), committed "as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack". http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/ICCS_final-2015-March12_FINAL_v1_0_EN.pdf