The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes...

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people in whole or in part. In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five...

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) is a case brought before...

ICJ 2 (also called the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide) is a public international law case decided...

The list of parties to the Genocide Convention encompasses the states who have signed and ratified or acceded to Convention on the Prevention and Punishment...

obligations under the Genocide Convention by taking all measures within its power to prevent the commission of acts of genocide, to prevent and punish...

Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following...

easily with the definition of genocide as cited in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." Historian John Docker has...

Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation) is a case brought...

drafters of the 1948 Genocide Convention initially considered using the term, but later dropped it from inclusion. Cultural genocide involves the eradication...

physical and biological terms according to the 1948 Genocide Convention, with cultural genocide being addressed as a human rights issue. The determination...

Chinese government that they say run afoul of Article II of the Genocide Convention, which prohibits "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole...

of genocide in with an overwhelming majority of 87 in favour of the resolution to 1 against and 1 abstaining. Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, genocide...

Jewish descent who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention. During the Second World War, he campaigned...

definition of genocide laid out in the 1948 Genocide Convention. In countries with settler colonial past, recognition of colonial genocides is difficult...

recognised in significant scholarship as genocides in line with the legal definition of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide. It excludes mass killings which have...

to the common meaning as well as the legal concept of genocide, which the Genocide Convention describes as an intentional effort to completely or partially...

The Bosnian genocide (Bosnian: Bosanski genocid / Босански геноцид) refers to either the Srebrenica massacre or the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic...

"Direct and public incitement to commit genocide" was forbidden by the Genocide Convention in 1948. Incitement to genocide is often cloaked in metaphor and euphemism...

than those in the Genocide Convention, and where the intention of the perpetrators did not specifically intend to commit genocide, are a grey area. William...

the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar), commonly referred to as the Rohingya genocide case...

the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under, inter alia, the Genocide Convention, concerning Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations...

Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following...

Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) of 1948 as "any of the following...

"Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation's Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent" (PDF). New Lines Institute for...

one of the elements of the crime of genocide according to the 1948 Genocide Convention. There is an unresolved "intend debate" over whether dolus directus...

scholars argue that the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide should state that mass rape is a genocidal crime. Other scholars...

the Genocide Convention. In 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity wrote a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars'...

warning signs of genocide beginning to occur. One of the main goals of the United Nations with the passage of the Genocide Convention after the Second...

genocide is illegal under international law both for individuals, as part of international criminal law, and state parties to the Genocide Convention...