Genocide

Genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. A term coined by Raphael Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, the hybrid word geno-cide is a combination of the Greek word γένος (genos, "race, people") and the Latin suffix -caedo ("act of killing").The United Nations Genocide Convention, which was established in 1948, defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such" including the killing of its members, causing serious …

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The Equality Trust · 22 July 2024 English

"The Spirit Level at 15: The Enduring Impact of Inequality" revisits the influential work "The Spirit Level" fifteen years after its initial publication. It underscores the persistent and growing impact …

Justice found plausible violations by Israel of the Genocide Convention.9 The inclusion of Israel’s data


NITI Aayog: National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) · 22 July 2024 English

The economic reforms under way and the economic & institutional reforms on the agenda for the next few years, will sustain growth of per capita GDP at 7% during the …

party has wiped out Islam from PRC and committed genocide against the Uyghur. In contrast, India is among


7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media · 21 July 2024 Arabic

ترصــد هــذه الورقــة بدقــة كيــف يتعــارض هــذا القانــون مــع حقــوق اإلنســان األساســّية خــارج الحــدود اإلقليمّي ــفي الســياق اإلســرائيليّ- ــلى توظيــف الــذكاء االصطناعــيّ للفلســطينّيين والفلســطينّيات، والخطــر المترتّــب ع ــلى حيــاة ع …

THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (SOUTH AFRICA v. ISRAEL)," International


Oxfam GB · 19 July 2024 English

This report examines the systematic weaponization of water by the Government of Israel during its military campaign in Gaza. It highlights the severe water shortages and sanitation crises resulting from …

including those enshrined in the Geneva and Genocide Conventions.8 Displaced people in Rafah in South Court of Justice has found that allegations of genocide are plausible.32 Humanitarian actors face extreme Punishment of Genocide (1948) The 1948 Genocide Convention establishes that genocide is an international alleged that the Government of Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza following Palestinian ethnical group’,192 violating Article II (c) of the Genocide Convention by ‘deliberately inflicting on the


World Bank Group · 18 July 2024 English

Financial sector reforms are part of the strategies that countries follow to exit from fragility, but the content and focus of these reforms and the priority they are given relative …

government, in what became known as the Rwandan genocide. Over the course of approximately 100 days, between


Amnesty International · 17 July 2024 English

In this submission, the four organisations examine the Government of Fiji’s compliance with its international human rights obligations to create and maintain a safe and enabling environment for civil society. …

in Suva by USP students to call for an end to genocide in Gaza. The government revoked their permit,


Australian Human Rights Commission · 16 July 2024 English

And on that issue of data and racial literacy and collection of data, that's something we'll come back to because that is one of the things that we're focusing on …

happening in the context of a place in which there is genocide going on. Right? [ 00:50:34 ] So I think how we


World Bank Group · 16 July 2024 English

Financial sector reforms are part of the strategies that countries follow to exit from fragility, but the content and focus of these reforms and the priority they are given relative …

government, in what became known as the Rwandan genocide. Over the course of approximately 100 days, between


Amnesty International · 16 July 2024 English

January Norway: Over the last few years, Norway has endured criticism from international human rights bodies for its treatment of people in prison with mental health problems. Isolation is widely …

earlier to help deliver justice to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The treaty


Australian Human Rights Commission · 16 July 2024 English

And active participants in the decisions that directly affect us, and in the decisions, sorry, the design of the systems and services that are meant to support us and protect …

so many of you, I have been horrified by the genocide that is happening over the other side of the world


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