The Genocide Convention: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on Executive O, the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide |
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action acts of genocide adopted amendment American Bar Association article III Assembly Bishop BRIEN MCMAHON camps Carpatho-Ukraine Catholic Church Chairman Charter civilized commit genocide Communist Congress Constitution contracting parties Council Covenant crime of genocide criminal Curzon Line declaration delegates destruction domestic draft effect enumerated in article Estonia famine Federal foreign freedom Genocide Convention German Government human rights individual intent to destroy International Court international crime international law Jewish Jews jurisdiction labor Latvia legislation Lithuanian Lithuanian American LSSR Lviv matter ment mental harm Mischlings moral murder Nazi NKGB NKVD obligation official operative organization PERLMAN persons Poland Polish political population present Convention President prevention and punishment proposed provisions question racial ratification representative resolution Russian Russian Orthodox Church Secretary Security-comrade Senator LODGE Senator MCMAHON Sixth Committee Soviet Union statement submitted tion treaty tribunal Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic United Nations United States Senate village violation
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Pagina 395 - (a) killing members of the group; (6) 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
Pagina 438 - of the International Court of Justice Statute provides that the jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and convention in force. Since the noncompulsory character of the
Pagina 19 - for peaceful and friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote * * » (c) universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedom for all without distinction as to race,
Pagina 184 - statute of the International Court of Justice, article 38, section 1, provides: "The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply: * * * c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations; * * *
Pagina 2 - ON DECEMBER 9, 1948, AND SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES ON DECEMBER 11,1948 THE WHITE HOUSE, June 16, 1949. To the Senate of the United. States: With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith a certified copy of the convention on the prevention and
Pagina 199 - the right to freedom of peaceful assembly. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of this right other than those prescribed by law and which are necessary to ensure national security, public order, the protection of health or morals, or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. Article 19 1.
Pagina 16 - Under the convention, the parties confirm in article I that genocide,, whether committed in time of peace or in war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and punish. Article IV provides that the guilty shall be punishable whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials, or private individuals.
Pagina 66 - to submit to the consideration of the United States in Congress assembled that Constitution which has appeared to us the most advisable. . . . The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace and treaties . . . shall be fully and effectually vested in the general government of the Union.
Pagina 6 - the convention, by notification in writing to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The General Assembly shall decide upon the steps, if any, to be taken in respect of such request. It is my firm belief that the American people together with the other peoples of the world will
Pagina 262 - DEFINITE Senator LODGE. Broad ? I think it is terribly definite— persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the state in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international