Definition(s)
An act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Source(s)
Art. 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948
Translations
- BG: геноцид
- CS: genocida
- DE: Völkermord
- EL: γενοκτονία
- EN: genocide
- ES: genocidio
- ET: genotsiid
- FI: kansanmurha / joukkotuhonta
- FR: génocide
- GA: cinedhíothú
- HU: népirtás
- IT: genocidio
- LT: genocidas
- LV: genocīds
- MT: Ġenoċidju
- NL: genocide / volkerenmoord
- PL: ludobójstwo
- PT: genocídio
- RO: genocid
- SK: genocída
- SL: genocid
- SV: folkmord
- NO: folkemord
- KA: გენოციდი
- UK: геноцид
Related Term(s)
Note(s)
1. As outlined in the Convention, these acts include:
(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.
2. The definition is also outlined in Art. 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.