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Coining a Word and Championing a Cause: the story of Raphael Lemkin — Photograph

Professor Raphael Lemkin, left, and Ricardo Alfare of Panama (chairman of the Assembly's Legal Committee) in conversation before the plenary meeting of the General Assembly at which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved. Paris, December 1949.

Professor Raphael Lemkin, left, and Ricardo Alfare of Panama (chairman of the Assembly's Legal Committee) in conversation before the plenary meeting of the General Assembly at which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved. Paris, December 1949.

— United Nations Archives and Records Management Section



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