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

A/RES/42/133View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1988.

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?

4 subjects

Genocide International Cooperation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

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Encourages Governments in a position to do so to include in their delegations participating in the abovementioned commemorative plenary meeting of the General Assembly persons from their respective countries who were associated with the drafting of the Declaration.

Commends the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Development Programme for their timely action in sending an inter-agency mission to Malawi to ascertain the needs of the refugees and displaced persons in Malawi and the magnitude of assistance required;

Requests the Secretary-General, in close cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, to give the report of the interagency mission the widest possible circulation to all States, all pertinent international organizations and voluntary agencies;

Further requests the Secretary-General, in close cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, to mobilize international assistance and to launch an international appeal for generous contributions to the projects and programmes recommended in the report of the inter-agency mission;

Appeals to Member States, the High Commissioner, the organizations concerned within the United Nations system and voluntary agencies to render maximum financial and material assistance to the Government of Malawi in its efforts to provide shelter, food and other services to the growing number of refugees and displaced persons in that country;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1988 and to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution.

42/ 133.

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

Once again strongly condemns the crime of genocide:

Reaffirms the necessity of international cooperation in order to liberate mankind from such an odious cnme;

Notes with satisfaction that many States have ratified 3. the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or have acceded thereto;

Expresses its conviction that implementation of the provisions of the Convention by all States is necessary for the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide;

Urges those States which have not yet become parties tn the Convention to ratify it or accede thereto without further delay;

Invites the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-third session a report on the ,tatu~ of the Convention.

42/134. Need to enhance international co-operation in the field of the protection of and assistance for the family

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