Convention on Genocide (1948)

The Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 and entered into force on 12 January 1951 when, in accordance with article 13, the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession was deposited at the United Nations.
 
According to the Convention, genocide means “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
 
In this section you will find the dates of signature, ratification, accession or succession to the Convention by EU member states as well as the reservations, declarations and objections submitted by the States.
 
For a selected bibliography on the crime of genocide see here.