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Sixty-Five Years Later: The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
December 9, 2013
Sixty-five years ago today, in the wake of the Holocaust, the UN General Assembly adopted its first-ever human rights treaty. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide obliges signatories to prevent genocide—defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group—and to punish the perpetrators when it occurs.
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The Responsibility to Protect: From Words to Action
August 8, 2013
A new report authored by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan Richard S. Williamson examines how to realize the promise of the Responsibility to Protect and more effectively use this tool to prevent genocide and mass atrocities.
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Judge Buergenthal on the Challenges of International Justice
December 17, 2010
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Genocide Prevention Task Force report receives bipartisan praise
January 15, 2009
