ABSTRACT
The recent adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court has been rightly hailed as an important event in the development of international humanitarian law and international justice. However, bears a much larger impact on several other areas of international including, in particular, human rights law. As to the first issue, it has to be pointed out that the Rome Statute is regarded as an extremely important instrument, whose value ca appreciated even before the actual establishment of the Court and concrete exercise of its judicial functions. Besides the crimes of genocide and aggression, which are selected as deserving specific provisions in the Statute, crimes coming within the Court's jurisdiction are classified in two wide categories: crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Statute itself indicates that war crimes have to be seen as violations of humanitarian law while crimes against humanity consist essentially of violations of human rights law.
