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Genocide Convention
The Genocide Convention, formally the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and came into force in 1951. Drawing on the work of the lawyer Raphael Lemkin and the experience of the Holocaust, it defines genocide as acts intended to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group and obliges states to prevent and punish it.
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