PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE SUPPRESSION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE
CRIME OF Apartheid WHICH SHALL HAVE FORCE OF LAW
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Article II
For the purpose of the present Convention, the term “the crime of apartheid”, which shall include
similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa,
shall apply to the following inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining
domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically
oppressing them:
(a) Denial to a member or members of a racial group or groups of the right to life and liberty of
person:
(i) By murder of members of a racial group or groups;
(ii) By the infliction upon the members of a racial group or groups of serious bodily or mental
harm, by the infringement of their freedom or dignity, or by subjecting them to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(iii) By arbitrary arrest and illegal imprisonment of the members of a racial group or groups;
(b) Deliberate imposition on a racial group or groups of living conditions calculated to cause its
or their physical destruction in whole or in part;
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(e) Exploitation of the labour of the members of a racial group or groups, in particular by
submitting them to forced labour;
(f) Persecution of organisations and persons, by depriving them of fundamental rights and
freedoms, because they oppose apartheid.
Article III
International criminal responsibility shall apply, irrespective of the motive involved, to individuals,
members of organisations and institutions and representatives of the State, whether residing in the
territory of the State in which the acts are perpetrated or in some other State, whenever they:
(a) Commit, participate in, directly incite or conspire in the commission of the acts mentioned in
article II of the present Convention;
(b) Directly abet, encourage or co-operate in the commission of the crime of apartheid.