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  2. Genocide Convention - Wikipedia

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    Its definition of genocide has been adopted by international and hybrid tribunals, such as the International Criminal Court, and incorporated into the domestic law of several countries. [7] Its provisions are widely considered to be reflective of customary law and therefore binding on all nations whether or not they are parties.

  3. Genocide - Wikipedia

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    Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1] [dubious – discuss] Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national ...

  4. Explainer: What is genocide and how can it be proven? - AOL

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    Genocide is harder to show than other violations of international humanitarian law, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity, because it requires evidence of specific intent. "Genocide is a ...

  5. Crimes against humanity - Wikipedia

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    Unlike genocide and war crimes, which have been widely recognized and prohibited in international criminal law since the establishment of the Nuremberg principles, [35] [36] there has never been a comprehensive convention on crimes against humanity, [37] even though such crimes are continuously perpetrated worldwide in numerous conflicts and ...

  6. List of genocides - Wikipedia

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    Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...

  7. International criminal law - Wikipedia

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    The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was the first court to apply international criminal law.. International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration.

  8. 'Specific Intent To Destroy Palestinians': Amnesty ... - AOL

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    Genocide can also be the means for achieving a military result. In other words, a finding of genocide may be drawn when the state intends to pursue the destruction of a protected group in order ...

  9. It is not just Darwish who believes Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide, so do an international consortium of countries, human rights lawyers and experts. ... Law School’s ...