# Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

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9 December 1948. Full Article II; unchanged UNTS Convention PDF, 25 pages.

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### Official sources

- [Official source · treaties.un.org](https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2078/volume-78-I-1021-English.pdf)
- [Official source · www.un.org](https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition)

## Article II

**Definition of genocide: specific intent and five enumerated acts**

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(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.