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

A/RES/40/142View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 1986–1993

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/47/108

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1993	A/RES/47/108	Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	408	—
1991	A/RES/45/152	Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/158	Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/138	Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	280	22%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/133	Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	806	16%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Genocide Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Once again strongly condemns the crime of genocide;

Reaffirms the necessity ofintemational co-operation in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge;

Takes note with appreciation of the fact that many States have ratified the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or have acceded thereto;

Urges those States that have not yet become parties 4. to the Convention to ratify it or accede thereto without

further delay;

Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the Gen- 5. eral Assembly at its forty-first session a report on the status of the Convention;

Requests the Commission on Human Rights to consider at its forty-second session the question of promoting the full implementation of the Convention and to submit its observations and proposals thereon, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-first session.

VI. 188 A/40/874 189 lh1d .. sect. 11.

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