There is no act of genocide that is not also another crime.

The Rwanda Tribunal was the first in history to describe rape as a possible act of genocide.

The court ruled that Saddam committed genocide against the people of Halabja this was the first time the Halabja attack was described as an act of genocide in a court ruling.

It entails our national and collective responsibility to act in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

I first spoke from this rostrum in 1999 on the need for the international community to act in the face of genocide.

Assuming that general international law requires States and other entities to prevent genocide in the same way as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and that the United Nations had been in a position to prevent genocide, failure to act would have represented a breach of an international obligation.

For the first time, we have recognized our national and collective responsibility to act in cases of genocide and ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Article 4(h) of the Constitutive Act, repeated in article 4 of the Protocol to the Constitutive Act on the PSC, also recognises the right of the Union to intervene in member state in circumstances of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.

2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.

This policy, applied and exacerbated by 10 United States administrations, also fits the definition of an act of genocide under the provisions of subparagraph (c) of article II of the Geneva Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948, and therefore constitutes a breach of international law.

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

Indonesia s Forgotten Genocide

The Forgotten Genocide

The moral consciousness of the world demands that this massacre be adequately accounted for as an act of genocide and that its victims be remembered just as those of Baby Yar, Khatyn and Srebrenica.

Armenians, as a people who experienced the first genocide of the twentieth century, know full well the horror of genocide.

Mujawayo is a survivor of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and currently works with genocide survivors as a sociologist.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, I presented a five point action plan to prevent genocide.

We must accept, and act on, our responsibility to protect people everywhere in the world in the event of genocide and other mass atrocities that national Governments are unwilling, or unable, to prevent.

Recalling further the recognition by the ad hoc international criminal tribunals that rape can constitute a war crime, a crime against humanity, or a constitutive act with respect to genocide,

So let us end genocide as we know it by stopping genocides, but also by abandoning the crime of genocide.

Genocide requires special intent.

To decide whether Mladic acted on Serbia s account when he was planning and ordering the Srebrenica massacre, the Court demanded proof that Serbian officials sent him specific instructions to commit this act of genocide.

Forgetting, hiding or obliterating the history of genocide perpetrated against a people also contributes to weakening the universal struggle against genocide.

Genocide is a crime of characterization, an interpretation.

Never Again to Genocide Trials

But for genocide? Better not.

Yazidis say stop the genocide

2. Also requests the Secretary General to continue the activities of the programme of outreach entitled The Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations aimed at Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide

In fact, this trend of dehumanization is apparent in almost every epic of genocide, massacre, war, and atrocity including the Cambodian genocide massacres, the the massacres of Serbs and Bosnians in the Yugoslav wars, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights has classified the widespread cultural destruction as crimes of genocide under the UN Convention on Genocide (1948).

An important message was that Member States should recognize the responsibilities that accompany sovereignty, including a commitment to act to prevent genocide and massive human rights violations, that is, the responsibility to protect .

The concern of the Government and people of Rwanda, particularly the genocide survivors, is that the perpetrators of the genocide not be allowed to evade justice.

Prior history of genocide or violence against a group.

In 1965, the 50th anniversary of the genocide, a 24 hour mass protest was initiated in Yerevan demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Soviet authorities.

During the discussion on the prevention of genocide, the Special Rapporteur stressed the importance of achieving intellectual and cultural agreement on the need to prevent genocide.

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They faced bullets, bombs, torture genocide.

In so doing, Member States will demonstrate their commitment to the cause of Holocaust remembrance and education, act to help prevent future acts of genocide and advance the fulfilment by the United Nations of its core mission and founding principles.

The question of genocide went to the very heart of his mandate because genocide was the most extreme manifestation of the executions that were the mandate's raison d'être.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide