Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

United Nations

9 December 1948 (New York, United States of America)

12 January 1951

genocide (in peace or war) means with intent to destroy (in whole or in part) a national, ethnical, racial or religious group by killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, impose measures intended to prevent births, forcibly transfer children