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crime against humanity

grave wrongful act as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population
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crime against humanity

Summary

crime against humanity ranks in the top 0.74% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,305 views/month, #575 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • crime against humanity is a type of crimes against international law[2].
  • crime against humanity is a type of atrocity[3].
  • crime against humanity's Commons category is recorded as Crimes against humanity[4].
  • crime against humanity's said to be the same as is recorded as violation of international humanitarian law[5].
  • crime against humanity's significant event is recorded as Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court[6].
  • crime against humanity's significant event is recorded as Nuremberg trials[7].
  • crime against humanity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Crimes against humanity[8].
  • crime against humanity's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Political Theory[9].
  • crime against humanity's different from is recorded as war crime[10].
  • crime against humanity's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[11].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[12].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject International relations[13].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject International law[14].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject United Nations[15].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Law[16].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Ethics[17].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography[18].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Death[19].
  • crime against humanity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Culture[20].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include crimes against international law[2] and atrocity[3].

Influence

Things named for crime against humanity include Cards Against Humanity[21], a dedicated deck card game[22].

Why It Matters

crime against humanity ranks in the top 0.74% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,305 views/month, #575 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Entities named for it include Cards Against Humanity[21], a dedicated deck card game[22].

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Adolf Eichmann Albert Kesselring Alberto Fujimori Albert Speer Alfred Jodl Alfred Rosenberg Ali Hassan al-Majid Alois Brunner Amal Clooney Amon Göth Ante Gotovina Aribert Heim Arthur Seyss-Inquart Baldur von Schirach Biljana Plavšić Charles Taylor Erhard Milch Erich Koch Erich Priebke Ernst Kaltenbrunner extermination camp Fritz Sauckel Georg von Küchler Gregorio Conrado Álvarez Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Hans Frank Hans Heinrich Lammers Hermann Göring Hermann Hoth Hideki Tojo

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . ohchr.org. Retrieved . ohchr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → war crime
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → crimes against international law, atrocity
    Significant event → Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Nuremberg trials
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1024, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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