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Genocide Convention; Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Signed: 9 December 1948: Location: Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France: Effective: 12 January 1951: Signatories: 39: Parties: 153 (complete list) Depositary: Secretary-General of the United Nations: Full text; Genocide Convention at Wikisource
On 11 December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was opened for signature. Ethiopia became the first state to deposit the treaty on 1 July 1949. Ethiopia was also among the very few countries that incorporated the convention in its national law immediately— as early as the 1950s. [1]
Draft convention on genocide 181: 29 November 1947 Future government of Palestine: 182: 20 November 1947 without vote Headquarters of the United Nations 183: 20 October 1947 45-1-9 Utilization of the services of the Secretariat 184: 15 November 1947 32-17-5 Place of meeting of the 3rd regular session General Assembly
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such."
The resolution on genocide invited the United Nations Economic and Social Council to draw up an international treaty that would oblige states to prevent and punish acts of genocide. Two years later, the General Assembly adopted the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , which provided a legal definition of ...
Genocidal intent is the specific mental element, or mens rea, required to classify an act as genocide under international law, [1] particularly the 1948 Genocide Convention. [2] To establish genocide, perpetrators must be shown to have had the dolus specialis, or specific intent, to destroy a particular national, ethnic, racial, or religious ...
For Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, 'never again' was 'a prayer, a promise, a vow'. Unfortunately, this vow is all too often broken.
The Genocide Convention establishes five prohibited acts that, when committed with the requisite intent, amount to genocide. Genocide is not just defined as wide scale massacre-style killings that are visible and well-documented. International law recognizes a broad range of forms of violence in which the crime of genocide can be enacted. [3]