... Yugoslavia Genocide Convention Croatia v Serbia The basis of the ICJ’s jurisdiction lay in Article IX of the Genocide Convention and, as such, its jurisdiction was strictly confined to determining whether the acts or omissions presented to the Court by the parties in their respective claims...

... to protect extraterritorial obligations responsibilities of international organizations Bosnia v Serbia Genocide Convention The ‘responsibility to protect’ concept has emerged over the last decade at a remarkable pace. In less than four years, from 2001 to 2005, it progressed from an idea...

... international definition. The term itself was invented by a lawyer, Raphael Lemkin. He intended to fill a gap in international law, as it then stood in the final days of the Second World War. Over the years, the limited definition of genocide in the 1948 Genocide Convention has provoked much criticism and many...

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... governments, the chapter scrutinizes three acts of international lawmaking: the Nuremberg Trials, the 1948 Genocide Convention, and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The chapter argues that the experience of Nazi occupation was deployed...

...This chapter reviews the historical development of the word “genocide,” both through the story of Raphael Lemkin as well as the drafting history of the UN Genocide Convention. Central to this is an understanding of three conceptual areas that reappear as recurring threads in the development...

...This chapter provides an overview of the original provisions of the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention and recent steps toward implementation. It describes the process used by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to conduct the first trial for the crime of genocide ever held before...

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..., and Guatemala. Such revisions of the concept included crimes committed against political opponents and national resistance movements, and cultural genocide against Indigenous populations—two categories explicitly eliminated from the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. These expanded definitions were forged to overcome...

... Rights (UDHR), and the Genocide Convention. Geneva Conventions Genocide Convention Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1948 human rights Nuremberg War Crimes Trials population transfer rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR 1948 World War II Africa...

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... the claim that such a reservation was contrary to the object and purpose of the Genocide Convention. It is a matter for serious concern that at the beginning of the 21st century it is still for states to choose whether they consent to the Court adjudicating claims that they have committed genocide. It must...

...The origins of the prohibition of genocide under international law date back to the end of World War II and the Nuremberg trial. The idea of the universal opposability of the prohibition of genocide in the advisory opinion on the Genocide Convention presents clear elements of analogy...

... against civilians that were outside the ambit of war crimes, including hate speech as persecution. The chapter then considers the origins of the Genocide Convention and its pioneering formulation of the incitement crime. Finally, it examines the ad hoc tribunal statutes and the Rome Statue...

... tribunals raise jus cogens issues proprio motu. The chapter also covers jurisdiction under Article IX of the 1948 Genocide Convention and Article 66 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. As a follow-up on this chapter, section 4 of the appendix...

... self-interest and geopolitical power dynamics. This chapter examines the artificial limits placed on which social groups enjoy protection under the UN Genocide Convention, and which atrocities are ‘mere murder’. Competing narratives over social conflicts can lead to genocide affirmation, genocide...

.... It details the early usages of the concept in subsequent criminal trials of Nazi offenders, as well as the definition of genocide in the 1948 Genocide Convention. It also discusses the critical (and controversial) decision of the Convention's drafters to exclude political groups, thereby limiting...

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... by Jacob Robinson and Shabtai Rosenne towards the Genocide Convention during its drafting, with regard to and following its ratification, and at the International Court of Justice advisory proceedings on the question of reservations to the Convention. The chapter describes their early disinterest...