Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 78 U.N.T.S. 277, entered into force Jan. 12, 1951.
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Year of adoption: 1948
Year of entry into force: 1951
Region: Universal
Legal Status: Intergovernmental - Legally Binding
Year of entry into force: 1951
Region: Universal
Legal Status: Intergovernmental - Legally Binding
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Article II
In the present 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:
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( 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;