![]() The Convention has been ratified by 149 States (as of January 2018). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly ( A/RES/96-I). Later on, Raphäel Lemkin led the campaign to have genocide recognised and codified as an international crime. ![]() Lemkin developed the term partly in response to the Nazi policies of systematic murder of Jewish people during the Holocaust, but also in response to previous instances in history of targeted actions aimed at the destruction of particular groups of people. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing. The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. ![]() Genocide Background Secretary-General visits Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland.
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