Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, briefs the United Nations Security Council. UN Photo / Eskinder Debebe against humanity.63 These and other elements are sometimes referred to as “chapeaux” or “contextual elements”, and will be spelled out in the statute, or the domestic or customary law, governing the conduct. Domestic criminal justice systems globally have different elements, descriptions and categorizations of crimes.64 This guidance is aligned primarily with the law and practice of the International Criminal Court (ICC), given its role in international criminal law and the Rome Statute’s broad membership. Jurisprudence from other international tribunals is also germane. 63 64 34 Rome Statute, art. 7. States also have obligations under international law to criminalize in their domestic law certain human rights violations, such as human trafficking or individual acts of torture. An investigative body may also identify individuals perpetrating such crimes (see “Crimes under domestic law”, below). ATTRIBUTING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY

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