Rome Statute

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court, adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rome on 17 July 1998 and in force since 1 July 2002, with 125 states party to it as of January 2025. It establishes four core international crimes not subject to any statute of limitations, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, and under the Statute the ICC may investigate and prosecute these crimes only where states are unable or unwilling to do so themselves, its jurisdiction being complementary to that of domestic courts.