Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

"Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Crime" (1948) "Vienna Convention on Treaty Act" (1969), "Convention" applies to treaties between States. The preamble defines genocide as a crime that must be eliminated from the world in the framework of the concept of the Convention. Historical atrocities are declared as evidence of the serious impact of genocide on human beings and international cooperation is necessary to prevent these atrocities.

On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust, the United Nations ratified the Convention on the Prevention of Massacre and Punishment, mainly due to the constant efforts of Limkin himself. The treaty defines "genocide" as an international crime, and the signatory defines "prevention and punishment of promise". Since the Treaty came into effect, many cases of violence against groups started throughout history, but international development has concentrated in two different historical periods: from the creation of the term to the approval as international law (1944 - 1948 ) And genocide at the time of the commencement of crime through the establishment of the International Criminal Court (1991 - 1998)) Prevention of genocide is another major obligation of the Convention, a challenge facing countries and individuals.

The 1948 UN Convention on Prevention and Punishment of Genocide defined the massacres. In this case, the act constitutes a genocide, if the act is "to destroy populations, ethnic groups, ethnic groups or religious groups in whole or in part". Although this is a legally applicable definition of genocide, the term genocide is preceded by the 1948 treaty, and in part due to the practical difficulty of proof of "intent" this definition There are few scholars who are completely satisfied with. For decades, scholars have proposed a series of alternate definitions and arguments about the composition of "genocide". It often extends the list of groups included in the definition of the United Nations. (For an example of alternative definitions, see the attached document "Definition of genocide".)