We welcome the efforts of the Secretary General aimed at preventing acts of genocide in the future.

Urges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda in order to help prevent future acts of genocide

2. Also requests the Secretary General to continue the activities of the programme of outreach entitled The Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations aimed at Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide

Urges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide

4. Urges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide

According to the Court, Serbia was aware of the very high risk of acts of genocide and did nothing. But Serbia was not complicit, the Court argued, because it has not been proven that the intention of committing the acts of genocide at Srebrenica had been brought to Belgrade s attention.

Recalling its resolution 60 225 of 23 December 2005, in which it urged Member States to develop educational programmes on the lessons of the genocide in Rwanda, and also requested the Secretary General to establish a programme of outreach for Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to prevent future acts of genocide,

It urges Member States to develop educational programmes to inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help prevent future acts of genocide.

The Special Rapporteur also wishes to stress the importance of memory in the prevention of genocide without a collective memory and a thorough analysis of past acts of genocide, it is difficult to define indicators which would alert us to a high risk situation that needs to be addressed.

The topic of serious breaches of the obligations arising from peremptory norms of general international law was of great importance in protecting States injured by wrongful acts committed by other States, which could include acts as serious for the international community as aggression and genocide.

Genocide is a crime of characterization, an interpretation. Rather than parse killers motives, we better affirm our own values by denying that any reasons could ever justify such acts.

With respect to the human rights situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the secessionists who had seized the territories were committing acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Georgians.

The abominable and unjustifiable acts of terrorism in New York, Madrid and London the genocide in Rwanda recent wars and conflicts all these events have deeply troubled the international community.

It is, in my view, important to stress that nothing in the Commission's report precludes the possibility of individuals being convicted of acts of genocide in relation to the events in Darfur.

5. Requests the Secretary General to establish a programme of outreach entitled The Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations as well as measures to mobilize civil society for Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and to report to the General Assembly on the establishment of the programme within six months from the date of the adoption of the present resolution

Requests the Secretary General to establish a programme of outreach entitled The Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations as well as measures to mobilize civil society for Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and to report to the General Assembly on the establishment of the programme within six months from the date of the adoption of the present resolution

Requests the Secretary General to establish a programme of outreach entitled The Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations as well as measures to mobilize civil society for Rwanda genocide victim remembrance and education, in order to help prevent future acts of genocide, and to report to the General Assembly on the establishment of the programme within six months from the date of the adoption of the present resolution

Genocide.

The appointment of a Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide was a welcome development and Ukraine for its part would continue to raise public awareness of one of the most terrible acts of genocide in the twentieth century, the Great Famine of 1932 1933 organized by the Soviet regime, which had killed between 7 and 10 million Ukrainians.

The nature and the scope of the bloody crimes committed in Khojaly and in the other Azerbaijani populated settlements proves that these acts of genocide fully fall under the definition formulated in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 260 (III) on 9 December 1948.

Since that time, there has been an upsurge in crimes against humanity and acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing as a result of the criminal activities of Congolese and foreign forces and groups, particularly in the eastern provinces.

Armenians, as a people who experienced the first genocide of the twentieth century, know full well the horror of genocide.

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

Declaration on the prevention of genocide

Indonesia s Forgotten Genocide

The Forgotten Genocide

Desiring that the international community continue to respond positively in assisting efforts to investigate the tragic history of Cambodia, including responsibility for past international crimes such as acts of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the regime of Democratic Kampuchea,

In so doing, Member States will demonstrate their commitment to the cause of Holocaust remembrance and education, act to help prevent future acts of genocide and advance the fulfilment by the United Nations of its core mission and founding principles.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, I presented a five point action plan to prevent genocide.

Forgetting, hiding or obliterating the history of genocide perpetrated against a people also contributes to weakening the universal struggle against genocide.

Opposition to genocide and other large scale acts of violence against a population also reflects the established principle that citizens as well as governments have rights. This principle is enshrined in various international documents, beginning with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

They've lowered the transaction costs of stopping genocide.

She was convicted of category one crimes of genocide.

The concern of the Government and people of Rwanda, particularly the genocide survivors, is that the perpetrators of the genocide not be allowed to evade justice.

Desiring that the international community continue to respond positively to assist efforts to investigate the tragic history of Cambodia, including responsibility for past international crimes, such as acts of genocide and crimes against humanity during the regime of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979,

Desiring that the international community continue to respond positively to assisting efforts to investigate the tragic history of Cambodia, including responsibility for past international crimes, such as acts of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the regime of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979,

Never Again to Genocide Trials

During the discussion on the prevention of genocide, the Special Rapporteur stressed the importance of achieving intellectual and cultural agreement on the need to prevent genocide.

Prior history of genocide or violence against a group.

Urges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help prevent future acts of genocide and, in that context, commends the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

It confirmed the jurisdiction of the Tribunal to try an accused for genocide on a theory of joint criminal enterprise on the ground that criminal responsibility for genocidal acts through participation in a common purpose or joint criminal enterprise is recognized by customary international law.

The question of genocide went to the very heart of his mandate because genocide was the most extreme manifestation of the executions that were the mandate's raison d'être.

And finally, random acts of kindness are conscious acts of kindness.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide