Unlike war crimes , crimes against humanity can be committed during peace or war . They are not isolated or sporadic events , but are part either of a government policy ( although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy ) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority . War crimes , murder , massacres , dehumanization , genocide , ethnic cleansing , deportations , unethical human experimentation , extrajudicial punishments including summary executions , use of weapons of mass destruction , state terrorism or state sponsoring of terrorism , death squads , kidnappings and forced disappearances , use of child soldiers , unjust imprisonment , enslavement , cannibalism , torture , rape , political repression , racial discrimination , religious persecution and other human rights abuses may reach the threshold of crimes against humanity if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice
racial discrimination
Institutional racism
Crimes against humanity