Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue its enforcement. The treaty defines genocide as any of five acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, including killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. The treaty entered into force in 1951 and has 153 state parties as of 2024. It has influenced law at both the national and international level, with its definition of genocide being adopted by international and hybrid tribunals and incorporated into the domestic law of several countries. The International Court of Justice has ruled that the principles underlying the Convention represent a peremptory norm against genocide that no government can derogate.learn more on wikipedia