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In the Name of Allah---the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Genocide Convention, formally known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime .......................... The  Genocide Convention , formally known as the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is an international treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948. It is considered one of the foundational documents of international human rights law and aims to prevent and punish the heinous crime of genocide. The Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group: Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part Imposing measures intended to prevent births w...