Rulings · treaty
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
1948-12-09 · UN GA Res. 260 (III) A · United Nations General Assembly
UN General Assembly Resolution 260 (III) A of 9 December 1948. Defines genocide; obliges states parties to prevent and punish; supplies the substantive basis for ICJ jurisdiction in inter-State genocide cases. Drafted in response to the Holocaust, with explicit awareness of the Armenian precedent in Raphael Lemkin's preparatory work.
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Further reading
- United Nations General Assembly, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
- Vahakn N. Dadrian, The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, 1995
- Taner Akçam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, 2006
- Raymond Kévorkian, The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History, 2011
- Luis Moreno Ocampo, Genocide Against Armenians in 2023, 2023