Join us in learning the legal framework applicable to atrocity crimes on the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime and the 74th anniversary of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”).

The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs invites you to watch a new miniseries on international criminal law by Professor Paola Gaeta, available in English at the Audiovisual Library of International Law.

Questions related to the crime of genocide are discussed, such as:

  • What is the legal meaning of genocide?

  • Can ethnic cleansing constitute per se an act of genocide?

  • How to prove the existence of genocidal intent?

  • How is it possible to prove that the murdering of a member of a protected group, the killing of a member of a religious group, for instance, is genocide? How can one prove that through this act of killing the perpetrator was, in fact, aiming at destroying the group in whole or in part?