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Treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948; it defines genocide and does not apply backward in time.

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9 Dec 1948

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948; it defines genocide and does not apply backward in time.

9 Dec 1948

United Nations adopted Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 1948.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, influenced by Deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians, 1915 to 1916 and Raphael Lemkin.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide features The scholarly debate over the word “genocide”.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide influenced Whether the Holodomor was genocide.

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