Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)

Article II (meaning of genocide)

In this Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing group members;

(b) Causing serious physical or mental harm to group members;

(c) Deliberately subjecting the group to living conditions designed to cause its physical destruction, in whole or in part;

(d) Impose measures to prevent in-group births;

(e) Forcibly transferring children from the group to another group.

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