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List of parties to the Genocide Convention#Municipal laws

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Participation in the Genocide Convention

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The list of parties to the Genocide Convention encompasses the states who have signed and ratified or acceded to Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to prevent and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime.

On 11 December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was opened for signature. Ethiopia became the first state to deposit the treaty on 1 July 1949. Ethiopia was also among the very few countries that incorporated

the convention in its national law immediately— as early as the 1950s.{{cite web |title=Article 281 of the Ethiopian Penal Code |url=http://preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/ethiopia.htm#:~:text=(c)%20the%20compulsory%20movement%20or,of%20exceptional%20gravity%2C%20with%20death |access-date=18 October 2022 |publisher=Prevent Genocide International}} The treaty came into force and closed for signature on 12 January 1951. Since then, states that did not sign the treaty can now only accede to it. The instrument of ratification, accession, or succession is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations

As of June 2024, 153 states have ratified or acceded to the treaty, most recently Zambia in April 2022. One state, the Dominican Republic, has signed but not ratified the treaty.

Ratified or acceded states

class="wikitable sortable"

! State

! Signed

! Deposited

! Method

{{flagcountry|Afghanistan}}

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| {{dts|1956|Mar|22|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Albania}}

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| {{dts|1955|May|12|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Algeria}}

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| {{dts|1963|Oct|31|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Andorra}}

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| {{dts|2006|Sep|22|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Antigua and Barbuda}}

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| {{dts|1988|Oct|25|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}

{{flagcountry|Argentina}}

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| {{dts|1956|Jun|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Armenia}}

|

| {{dts|1993|Jun|23|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Australia}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1949|Jul|8|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Austria}}

|

| {{dts|1958|Mar|19|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}}

|

| {{dts|1996|Aug|16|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Bahamas}}

|

| {{dts|1975|Aug|5|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}

{{flagcountry|Bahrain}}

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| {{dts|1990|Mar|27|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Bangladesh}}

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| {{dts|1998|Oct|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Barbados}}

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| {{dts|1980|Jan|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Belarus}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1954|Aug|11|format=dmy}}

| Ratification as {{flagcountry|Byelorussian SSR}}

{{flagcountry|Belgium}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1951|Sep|5|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Belize}}

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| {{dts|1998|Mar|10|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Benin}}

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| {{dts|2017|Nov|2|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Bolivia}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|2005|Jun|14|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}

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| {{dts|1992|Dec|29|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}}
Signed 11 December 1948
Ratified 29 August 1950

{{flagcountry|Brazil}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|Apr|15|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Bulgaria}}

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| {{dts|1950|Jul|21|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Burkina Faso}}

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| {{dts|1965|Sep|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Burundi}}

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| {{dts|1997|Jan|6|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Cambodia}}

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| {{dts|1950|Oct|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Canada}}

| {{dts|1949|Nov|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|Sep|3|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Cape Verde}}

|

| {{dts|2011|Oct|10|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Chile}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1953|Jun|3|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|China}}

| {{dts|1949|Jul|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1983|Apr|18|format=dmy}}

| Ratification
Signed as {{flagcountry|Republic of China}}

{{flagcountry|Colombia}}

| {{dts|1949|Aug|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1959|Oct|27|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Comoros}}

|

| {{dts|2004|Sep|27|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Costa Rica}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Oct|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Côte d'Ivoire}}

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| {{dts|1995|Dec|18|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Croatia}}

|

| {{dts|1992|Oct|12|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}}
Signed 11 December 1948
Ratified 29 August 1950

{{flagcountry|Cuba}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1953|Mar|4|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Cyprus}}

|

| {{dts|1982|Mar|29|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Czech Republic}}

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| {{dts|1993|Feb|22|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}
Signed 28 December 1949
Ratified 21 December 1950

{{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}

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| {{dts|1962|May|31|format=dmy}}

| Succession as {{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1960}} Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)
from {{flagcountry|Belgium}}

{{flagcountry|Denmark}}

| {{dts|1949|Sep|28|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1951|Jun|15|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Dominica}}

|

| {{dts|2019|May|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Ecuador}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|21|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Egypt}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|12|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|Feb|8|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|El Salvador}}

| {{dts|1949|Apr|27|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Sep|28|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Estonia}}

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| {{dts|1991|Oct|21|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Ethiopia}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1949|Jul|1|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Fiji}}

|

| {{dts|1973|Jan|11|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}

{{flagcountry|Finland}}

|

| {{dts|1959|Dec|18|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|France}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Oct|14|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Gabon}}

|

| {{dts|1983|Jan|21|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Gambia}}

|

| {{dts|1978|Dec|29|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Georgia}}

|

| {{dts|1993|Oct|11|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Germany}}

|

| {{dts|1954|Nov|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession as {{flagcountry|West Germany}}
Also {{flagcountry|East Germany}}
Acceded 27 March 1973

{{flagcountry|Ghana}}

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| {{dts|1958|Dec|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Greece}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1954|Dec|8|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Guatemala}}

| {{dts|1949|Jun|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Jan|13|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Guinea}}

|

| {{dts|2000|Sep|7|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Guinea-Bissau}}

|

| {{dts|2013|Sep|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Haiti}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Oct|14|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Honduras}}

| {{dts|1949|Apr|22|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|Mar|5|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Hungary}}

|

| {{dts|1952|Jan|7|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Iceland}}

| {{dts|1949|May|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1949|Aug|29|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|India}}

| {{dts|1949|Nov|29|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1959|Aug|27|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Iran}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|8|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1956|Aug|14|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Iraq}}

|

| {{dts|1959|Jan|20|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Ireland}}

|

| {{dts|1976|Jun|22|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Israel}}

| {{dts|1949|Aug|17|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Mar|9|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Italy}}

|

| {{dts|1952|Jun|4|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Jamaica}}

|

| {{dts|1968|Sep|23|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Jordan}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Apr|3|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}

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| {{dts|1998|Aug|26|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Kuwait}}

|

| {{dts|1995|Mar|7|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}}

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| {{dts|1997|Sep|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Laos}}

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| {{dts|1950|Dec|8|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Latvia}}

|

| {{dts|1992|Apr|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Lebanon}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1953|Dec|17|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Lesotho}}

|

| {{dts|1974|Nov|29|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Liberia}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Jun|9|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Libya}}

|

| {{dts|1989|May|16|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}}

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| {{dts|1994|Mar|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Lithuania}}

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| {{dts|1996|Feb|1|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Luxembourg}}

|

| {{dts|1981|Oct|7|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Malaysia}}

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| {{dts|1994|Dec|20|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Maldives}}

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| {{dts|1984|Apr|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Mali}}

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| {{dts|1974|Jul|16|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Malta}}

|

| {{dts|2014|Jun|6|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Mauritius}}

|

| {{dts|2019|Jul|8|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Mexico}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|14|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|Jul|22|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Moldova}}

|

| {{dts|1993|Jan|26|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Monaco}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Mar|30|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Mongolia}}

|

| {{dts|1967|Jan|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Montenegro}}

| {{dts|2006|Jul|19|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|2006|Oct|23|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|Serbia and Montenegro}}

{{flagcountry|Morocco}}

|

| {{dts|1958|Jan|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Mozambique}}

|

| {{dts|1983|Apr|18|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Myanmar}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1956|Mar|14|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Namibia}}

|

| {{dts|1994|Nov|28|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Nepal}}

|

| {{dts|1969|Jan|17|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Netherlands}}

|

| {{dts|1966|Jun|20|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|New Zealand}}

| {{dts|1949|Nov|25|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1978|Dec|28|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Nicaragua}}

|

| {{dts|1952|Jan|29|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Nigeria}}

|

| {{dts|2009|Jul|27|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|North Korea}}

|

| {{dts|1989|Jan|31|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|North Macedonia}}

|

| {{dts|1994|Jan|18|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}}
Signed 11 December 1948
Ratified 29 August 1950

{{flagcountry|Norway}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1949|Jul|22|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Pakistan}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1957|Oct|12|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Palestine}}

|

| {{dts|2014|Apr|2|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Panama}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Jan|11|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Papua New Guinea}}

|

| {{dts|1982|Jan|27|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Paraguay}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|2001|Oct|3|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Peru}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1960|Feb|24|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Philippines}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1950|Jul|7|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Poland}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Nov|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Portugal}}

|

| {{dts|1999|Feb|9|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Romania}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Nov|2|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Russia}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1954|May|3|format=dmy}}

| Ratification as {{flagcountry|Soviet Union}}

{{flagcountry|Rwanda}}

|

| {{dts|1975|Apr|16|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}

|

| {{dts|1981|Nov|9|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|San Marino}}

|

| {{dts|2013|Nov|8|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Jul|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Senegal}}

|

| {{dts|1983|Aug|4|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Serbia}}

|

| {{dts|2001|Mar|12|format=dmy}}

| Accession as {{flagcountry|Serbia and Montenegro}}

{{flagcountry|Seychelles}}

|

| {{dts|1992|May|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Singapore}}

|

| {{dts|1995|Aug|18|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Slovakia}}

|

| {{dts|1993|May|28|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|Czechoslovakia}}
Signed 28 December 1949
Ratified 21 December 1950

{{flagcountry|Slovenia}}

|

| {{dts|1992|Jul|6|format=dmy}}

| Succession from {{flagcountry|SFR Yugoslavia}}
Signed 11 December 1948
Ratified 29 August 1950

{{flagcountry|South Africa}}

|

| {{dts|1998|Dec|10|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|South Korea}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Oct|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Spain}}

|

| {{dts|1968|Sep|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Oct|12|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Sudan}}

|

| {{dts|2003|Oct|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Sweden}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|30|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1952|May|27|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Switzerland}}

|

| {{dts|2000|Sep|7|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Syria}}

|

| {{dts|1955|Jun|25|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Tajikistan}}

|

| {{dts|2015|Nov|3|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Tanzania}}

|

| {{dts|1984|Apr|5|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Togo}}

|

| {{dts|1984|May|24|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Tonga}}

|

| {{dts|1972|Feb|16|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Trinidad and Tobago}}

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| {{dts|2002|Dec|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Tunisia}}

|

| {{dts|1956|Nov|29|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Turkey}}

|

| {{dts|1950|Jul|31|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Uganda}}

|

| {{dts|1995|Nov|14|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Ukraine}}

| {{dts|1949|Dec|16|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1954|Nov|15|format=dmy}}

| Ratification as {{flagcountry|Ukrainian SSR}}

{{flagcountry|United Arab Emirates}}

|

| {{dts|2005|Nov|11|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}

|

| {{dts|1970|Jan|30|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|United States}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1988|Nov|25|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Uruguay}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1967|Jul|11|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

{{flagcountry|Uzbekistan}}

|

| {{dts|1999|Sep|9|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Venezuela}}

|

| {{dts|1960|Jul|12|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Vietnam}}

|

| {{dts|1981|Jun|9|format=dmy}}

| Accession

{{flagcountry|Yemen}}

|

| {{dts|1987|Feb|9|format=dmy}}

| Accession as {{flagcountry|South Yemen}}
Also {{flagcountry|North Yemen}}
Acceded 6 April 1989

{{flagcountry|Zambia}}

|

| {{dts|2022|Apr|20|format=dmy}}

|Accession

{{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}}

|

| {{dts|1991|May|13|format=dmy}}

| Accession

Unrecognized state, ratified treaty

class="wikitable"

! State

! Signed

! Deposited

! Method

{{flagcountry|Republic of China}}On the date that the Chinese Republic ratified the treaty (July 20, 1949), it was recognized by the United States and other nations as the sole legitimate government of China, and it was a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, holding a veto power

| {{dts|1949|Jul|20|format=dmy}}

| {{dts|1951|Jul|19|format=dmy}}

| Ratification

State that has signed but not ratified

class="wikitable"

! State

! Signed

{{flagcountry|Dominican Republic}}

| {{dts|1948|Dec|11|format=dmy}}

Municipal laws

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) came into effect in January 1951. Article 5, 6 and 7 of the CPPCG cover obligations that sovereign states that are parties to the convention must undertake to enact:

{{quotation|Art. 5: The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.

Art. 6: 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 penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.

Art. 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in article III shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.

The Contracting Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in accordance with their laws and treaties in force.

|CPPCG{{cite web|url=http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948: entry into force 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII|work=United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|publisher=Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|date=1997|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000408162107/http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm|archive-date=8 April 2000}}}}

Since 1951 the following states have enacted provisions within their municipal law to prosecute or extradite perpetrators of genocide:{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/|title=The Crime of Genocide in Domestic Laws and Penal Codes: Organized by Global Region|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=6 May 2004|access-date=19 January 2017}}

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State/Jurisdiction

!Provisions

!Notes

{{flag|Albania}}

|Chap. 1, Crimes Against Humanity, of the Criminal Code{{cite web|url=http://preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/albania.htm|title=Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, Special Part, Chap. 1, Crimes Against Humanity|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=1 June 1995|access-date=29 January 2017}}

|See Genocide Law (Albania, 1995)

{{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}}

|Genocide Act, Laws, Vol. 4.

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{{flag|Argentina}}

|{{badref|date=November 2023}}

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{{flag|Armenia}}

|Article 393 of the Criminal code.

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{{flag|Australia}}

|Division 268 of the Criminal Code{{Cite Legislation AU|Cth.|act|C2020C00245|Criminal Code Act 1995}}

|As inserted by the International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002.{{Cite Legislation AU|Cth.|num_act|Details: C2004A00993|International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002|3}}

{{flag|Austria}}

| Paragraph 321 of the Strafgesetzbuch 1974.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/de/recht/strafgesetz/oesterreich.htm|title=Österreichiches Recht: Völkermord § 321|trans-title=Austrian Law: Genocide Article 321|language=de|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

| Austrian law classifies all acts intended to annihilate a national, ethnic or religious group partially or in its entirety, create circumstances suitable to cause such events, create sterility in the group or other measures intended to prevent wilful procreation, or forcefully abducting children of said group to integrate them into another as genocide, with a statutory sentence of life imprisonment. Conspiracy to commit such acts carries a penalty of one to ten years imprisonment.

{{flag|Azerbaijan}}

|Article 103 and 104 of the Criminal Code.

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{{flag|Bahrain}}

| Decree No. 4 of 1990 (on genocide).

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{{flag|Bangladesh}}

|International Crimes (Tribunals) Act 1973.

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{{flag|Barbados}}

|Genocide Act, chapter 133A.

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{{flag|Belarus}}

|Article 127 of the Criminal Code.

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{{flag|Belgium|state}}

|Law on serious violations of international humanitarian law, 10 February 1999.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/fr/droit/codes/belgique.htm|title=Loi relative à la répression des violations graves du droit international humanitaire|trans-title=Law on the punishment of serious violations of international humanitarian law|language=fr|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=10 February 1999|access-date=30 January 2017}}

|In 1993 Belgium had adopted universal jurisdiction, allowing prosecution of genocide, committed by anybody in the world. The practice was widely applauded by many human rights groups, because it made legal action possible to perpetrators who did not have a direct link with Belgium, and whose victims were not Belgian citizens or residents. Ten years later in 2003, Belgium repealed the law on universal jurisdiction (under pressure from the United States). However, some cases which had already started continued. These included those concerning the Rwandan genocide, and complaints filed against the Chadian ex-President Hissène Habré.[http://pantheon.hrw.org/legacy/press/2003/08/belgium080103.htm Belgium: Universal Jurisdiction Law Repealed] web page on Human Rights Watch 1 August 2003

In a Belgium court case lodged on 18 June 2001 by 23 survivors of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, the prosecution alleged that Ariel Sharon, former Israeli defence minister (and Israel's Prime Minister in 2001–2006), as well as other Israelis committed a number of crimes including genocide,{{cite web|url=http://www.indictsharon.net/case.shtml#Introduction|title=The Case Against The Accused|publisher=indictsharon.net, the website of the International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra & Shatila|date=2001|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020202005305/http://www.indictsharon.net/case.shtml#intro|archive-date=2 February 2002|quote=...Ariel Sharon, former Israeli defense minister and Israel's current prime minister, as well as other Israelis and Lebanese with war crimes...}} because "all the constituent elements of the crime of genocide, as defined in the 1948 Convention and as reproduced in article 6 of the ICC Statute and in article 1§1 of the law of 16 June 1993, are present".{{cite web|url=http://www.indictsharon.net/cmptENen.pdf|title=The complaint against Ariel Sharon Lodged in Belgium on 18 June 2001|work=indictsharon.net|date=June 2001|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030609023716/http://indictsharon.net/cmptENen.pdf|archive-date=9 June 2003}} This allegation was not tested in Belgium court because on 12 February 2003 the Court of Cassation (Belgian Supreme Court) ruled that under international customary law, acting heads of state and government can not become the object of proceedings before criminal tribunals in foreign state (although for the crime of genocide they could be the subject of proceedings of an international tribunal).{{cite web|url=http://www.indictsharon.net/12feb2003dectrans.pdf|title=Belgian Court of Cassation (English translation of Belgian Supreme Court Decision- unauthorised)|work=indictsharon.net|date=12 February 2003|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040725054439/http://www.indictsharon.net/12feb2003dectrans.pdf|archive-date=25 July 2004}}Chibli Mallat, Michael Verhaeghe, Luc Walleyn and Laurie King-Irani [https://web.archive.org/web/20030604125310/http://indictsharon.net/case-diary15.shtml The February 2003 Decision of the Belgian Supreme Court Explained] on the website of [indictsharon.net], 19 February 2003 This ruling was a reiteration of a decision made a year earlier by the International Court of Justice on 14 February 2002.{{cite news|last=Osbor|first=Andrew|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/15/israelandthepalestinians.unitednations|title=Sharon cannot be tried in Belgium, says court|work=The Guardian|location=Brussels|date=14 February 2002|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116093059/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/feb/15/israelandthepalestinians.unitednations|archive-date=16 January 2014}} Following these ruling in June 2003 the Belgian Justice Ministry decided to start a procedure to transfer the case to Israel.Luc Walleyn, Michael Verhaeghe, Chibli Mallat. [https://web.archive.org/web/20030627143443/http://indictsharon.net/case-diary20.shtml Statement of the Lawyers for the Survivors of Sabra and Shatila in reaction to the Belgian Justice Ministry's decision to start the procedure of transferring the case to Israel] 15 June 2003.

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|Article 138 of the Código Penal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/bolivia.htm|title=Artículo §138 del Codigo Penal de Bolivia|trans-title=Article §138 of the Criminal Code of Bolivia|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 141 of the Penal Code.

|List of Bosnian genocide prosecutions#The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

{{flag|Brazil}}

| Law No. 2.889 of 1 October 1956.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/pt/direito/codigos/brasil.htm#trans|title=Law N°2.889, of 1 October of 1956|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=1 October 1956|access-date=30 January 2017}}

|The Helmet Massacre of the Tikuna people took place in 1988, and was initially treated as homicide. Since 1994 it has been treated by the Brazilian courts as a genocide. Thirteen men were convicted of genocide in 2001. In November 2004 at the appeal before Brazil's federal court, the man initially found guilty of hiring men to carry out the genocide was acquitted, and the other men had their initial sentences of 15–25 years reduced to 12 years.{{cite news|url=http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/711/41/|title=Brazilian Justice Acquits Man Sentenced for 1988 Massacre of Indians|publisher=Brazzil Magazine|agency=Cimi – Indianist Missionary Council|date=12 November 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050209104914/http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/711/41/|archive-date=9 February 2005}}

In a news letter published on 7 August 2006 the Indianist Missionary Council reported that: "In a plenary session, the [Brazilian] Supreme Federal Court (STF) reaffirmed that the crime known as the Haximu Massacre [perpetrated on the Yanomami Indians in 1993]{{cite web|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/1786|title=Supreme Court upholds genocide ruling|publisher=Survival International|date=4 August 2006|access-date=31 January 2017}} was a genocide and that the decision of a federal court to sentence miners to 19 years in prison for genocide in connection with other offenses, such as smuggling and illegal mining, is valid. It was a unanimous decision made during the judgement of Extraordinary Appeal (RE) 351487 today, the 3rd, in the morning by justices of the Supreme Court".{{cite web|url=http://www.cimi.org.br/?system=news&action=read&id=2049&eid=275|title=Federal Court is competent to judge the Haximu genocide|work=Indianist Missionary Council, Newsletter|issue=726|date=7 August 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709034346/http://www.cimi.org.br/?system=news&action=read&id=2049&eid=275|archive-date=9 July 2007|df=dmy}} Commenting on the case the NGO Survival International said "The UN convention on genocide, ratified by Brazil, states that the killing 'with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group' is genocide. The Supreme Court's ruling is highly significant and sends an important warning to those who continue to commit crimes against indigenous peoples in Brazil."

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| Article 416 on Genocide, of the Criminal Code.{{cite web|url=http://preventgenocide.org/bg/chlen416.htm|title=Criminal Code of Bulgaria, Article 416: Genocide|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 313 of the Code Pénal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/fr/droit/codes/burkinafaso.htm|title=Law N° 043/96/ADP of November 13, 1996 bearing Penal code|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=13 November 1996|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|In 2003 the transitional parliament in Burundi passed a law, introduced to parliament by the Burundian Foreign Minister Therence Sinunguruzaa, chiefly aimed at preventing genocide.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2952881.stm|title=Burundi approves genocide law|publisher=BBC|date=16 April 2003|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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| Law for prosecuting crimes committed from 1975 to 1979.{{cite web|url=http://www.cambodia.gov.kh/krt/pdfs/KR%20Law%20as%20promulgated%20(Eng%20trans%206%20Sept%202001).pdf|title=NS/RKM/0801/12: Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea|publisher=cambodia.gov.kh|date=10 August 2001|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031212223028/http://www.cambodia.gov.kh/krt/pdfs/KR%20Law%20as%20promulgated%20%28Eng%20trans%206%20Sept%202001%29.pdf|archive-date=12 December 2003|df=dmy-all}}

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| Act on genocide and war crimes, Article 318 on Advocating Genocide.

|In Canada the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act makes it an offence under Canadian law to commit genocide, whether inside or outside Canada. A person may be charged under this law if, at the time of the crime, the perpetrator was a Canadian citizen or was employed by Canada, if the victim was a Canadian citizen or a citizen of a country allied to Canada, if the perpetrator was a citizen of, or employed by, a country that Canada was engaged in armed conflict with or if, at any time after committing the crime, the perpetrator enters Canadian territory.

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| Articles 101 & 102 of the Código Penal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/colombia.htm|title=Genocidio - Artículo 101 y 102 del Codigo Penal de Colombia|trans-title=Genocide - Articles 101 and 102 of the Colombian Criminal Code|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 127 of the Código Penal (14 April 1998).{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/costarica.htm|title=Genocidio - Artículo 127 del Codigo Penal de Costa Rica|trans-title=Genocide - Article 127 of the Criminal Code of Costa Rica|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=14 April 1998|access-date=30 January 2017}}

|The law includes political groups or social groups as a protected group.

Naomi Klein. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Macmillan, 2007 {{ISBN|0-8050-7983-1}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8050-7983-8}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101 p. 101], see footnote

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|Article 137 of the Code Pénal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/fr/droit/codes/cotedivoire.htm|title=Code Pénal ( Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast ); Article 137-- génocide|trans-title=Penal Code (Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast); Article 137 - genocide|language=fr|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 156 of the Penal Code.

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{{flag|Cuba}}

|Article 361 of the Código Penal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/cuba.htm|title=Genocidio - Artículo 116 del Codigo Penal de Cuba|trans-title=Genocide - Article 116 of the Criminal Code of Cuba|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Uw 59/ 1980.

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{{flag|Czech Republic}}

|Article 400 of the Penal Code.{{cite web|url=https://www.ejtn.eu/PageFiles/6533/Criminal%20Code%20of%20the%20Czech%20Republic.pdf|title=Criminal Code of the Czech Republic|language=en|access-date=7 June 2022}}

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| Law Nr. 132 of 29 April 1955.{{cite web|url=http://preventgenocide.org/dk/folkedrab1955.htm|title=Danmark - Lov nr. 132 af 29.04.1955 om straf for folkedrab|trans-title=Denmark - Law no. 132 of 29.04.1955 on punishment for genocide|language=da|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=29 April 1955|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 361 of the Código Penal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/elsalvador.htm|title=GENOCIDIO Art. 361. del Código Penal de La Republica de El Salvador (Decreto Nº 1030)|trans-title=GENOCIDE Art. 361. of the Penal Code of the Republic of El Salvador (Decree No. 1030)|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 91 of the Karistusseadustik eriosa.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/estonia.htm|title=Estonian Criminal Code - Article § 611|language=et|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=9 November 1994|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Article 281 of the Penal Code of 1957.{{cite web|url=http://preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/ethiopia.htm|title=Article 281 of the Ethiopian Penal Code|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=1957|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Chapter 34 (Genocide) of the Penal Code.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/domestic/fiji.htm|title=Chapter VIII of the Fiji Islands Penal Code|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=1969|access-date=30 January 2017}}

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|Criminal Code{{cite web|url=http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515012651/http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/kaannokset/1889/en18890039.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 15, 2011|title=Criminal Code|language=fi|publisher=Ministry of Justice of Finland|access-date=23 March 2017}}

|Genocide has been criminalized as a separate crime in Finland since 1995 and carries a penalty from 4 years to life sentence. In addition to actual killing, the description of the crime (joukkotuhonta) covers also cultural assimilation by means of separating children from their original national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Attempted genocide or planning it are punishable. Genocide, as a number of other crimes of international nature is inside Finnish universal jurisdiction, but under Chapter 1, Section 12 of the Criminal Code, incidents of it abroad may not be investigated unless the Prosecutor General gives an order to do this.

{{cite web|first=Minna|last=Kimpimäki|url=http://www.redress.org/downloads/conferences/country%20studies.pdf|title=Universal jurisdiction in the European Union: Finland|publisher=redress.org|date=1 September 2001|access-date=31 January 2017}}

In 2010 a Rwandan refugee, François Bazaramba was convicted to life in prison for participation in the Rwandan genocide.{{cite web|work=Yle Uutiset|title=Ruandalaispastorille elinkautinen joukkotuhonnasta|trans-title=Rwandan pastor gets life sentence for genocide|language=fi|date=30 March 2012|url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2012/03/ruandalaispastorille_elinkautinen_joukkotuhonnasta_3372554.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331102307/http://yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/2012/03/ruandalaispastorille_elinkautinen_joukkotuhonnasta_3372554.html|archive-date=31 March 2012}}

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|Article 211-1 of the Code Pénal.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/fr/droit/codes/france.htm|title=Code Pénal (France); Article 211-1 -- génocide|trans-title=Penal Code (France); Article 211-1 - genocide|language=fr|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=31 January 2017}}

|The French law defines "a group determined by any arbitrary criteria" which is far broader than that found in the CPPCG.

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|Article 651 (genocide) of the penal code

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| Article 220a of the Strafgesetzbuch (1954),{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/de/recht/strafgesetz/deutschland.htm|title=Deutsche Strafgesetze, §220a Völkermord|trans-title=German Penal Code, §220a Genocide|language=de|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=31 January 2017}} superseded by article 6 of the Völkerstrafgesetzbuch (2002).

|Prior to the 2007 ICJ ruling on the Bosnian Genocide Case German courts handed down several convictions for genocide during the Bosnian War.

Novislav Djajić was indicted for participation in genocide, but the Bavarian Higher Regional Court failed to find beyond a reasonable doubt that he had intended to commit genocide. He was found guilty of 14 cases of murder and one case of attempted murder, receiving a sentence of 5 years imprisonment.{{cite web|url=http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/novislav_djajic_135.html|title=Trial Watch: Novislav Djajic|work=TRIAL (track impunity always)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012141813/http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/novislav_djajic_135.html|archive-date=12 October 2007}} At Djajic's appeal on 23 May 1997, the Bavarian Appeals Court found that acts of genocide were committed in June 1992, though confined within the administrative district of Foča.{{cite web|url=http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/ICTY/2001/8.html|title=Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic - Trial Chamber I - Judgment - IT-98-33 (2001) ICTY8 (2 August 2001)], The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, paragraph 589. citing Bavarian Appeals Court, Novislav Djajic case, 23 May 1997, 3 St 20/96, section VI, p. 24 of the English translation}}

The Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Düsseldorf, in September 1997, handed down a genocide conviction against Nikola Jorgić, a Bosnian Serb from the Doboj region who was the leader of a paramilitary group located in the Doboj region. He was sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment for his involvement in genocidal actions that took place in regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, other than Srebrenica.{{cite web|url=http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/nikola_jorgic_283.html|title=Trial Watch: Nikola Jorgic|work=TRIAL (track impunity always)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013194543/http://trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/nikola_jorgic_283.html|archive-date=13 October 2007}}

"On 29 November 1999, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Düsseldorf condemned Maksim Sokolović to 9 years in prison for aiding and abetting the crime of genocide and for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions".{{cite web|url=http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/maksim_sokolovic_139.html|title=Trial Watch: Maksim Sokolovic|work=TRIAL (track impunity always)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013164400/http://www.trial-ch.org/en/trial-watch/profile/db/legal-procedures/maksim_sokolovic_139.html|archive-date=13 October 2007}}

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|Criminal Code (Amendment) Act, 1993 Section 1: Genocide

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|Article 376 of the Código Penal

{{flag|Hong Kong}}

| Hong Kong, Section 9A, Offences Against Person Ordinance (Cap. 212){{Cite Hong Kong ordinance|name=Offences against the Person Ordinance|212|9A}}

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| Article 155 of the Penal Code

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| Genocide Act, 144/2018

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|Article 8 - Number 26, 2000 – Genocide

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|statute of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, issued 10 December 2003

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{{flag|Ireland}}

| Genocide Act, 1973

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{{flag|Israel}}

| Israeli Law on the Crime of Genocide, 5710 -1950

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|law on Genocide of 9 October 1967, n. 962

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{{flag|Jamaica}}

|Offenses against the person (amendment) 1968, s. 33

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| Penal Code Article 52 (Genocide)

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|Article 373 of the Criminal Code

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{{flag|Latvia}}

|Article 71 of the Penal Code

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| Article 321 of the Penal Code

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|Article 99 of the Criminal Code

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| Genocide law, 8 August 1985

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{{flag|Macau}}

| Article 230 of the Penal Code of Macau.

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|Article 30 of the Code Pénal

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{{flag|Mexico}}

|Article 149 of the Código Penal

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|International Crimes and International Criminal Court Act 2000.

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|Act Implementing the Conv. on Genocide, 2 July 1964.

|Dutch law restricts prosecutions for genocide to its nationals. On December 23, 2005, a Dutch court ruled in a case brought against Frans van Anraat for supplying chemicals to Iraq, that "[it] thinks and considers legally and convincingly proven that the Kurdish population meets the requirement under the genocide conventions as an ethnic group. The court has no other conclusion: that these attacks were committed with the intent to destroy the Kurdish population of Iraq" and because he supplied the chemicals before 16 March 1988, the date of the Halabja poison gas attack, he is guilty of a war crime but not guilty of complicity in genocide.{{cite news|last1=Penketh|first1=Anne|author2=Robert Verkaik|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article334972.ece|title=Dutch court says gassing of Iraqi Kurds was 'genocide'|work=The Independent|date=24 December 2005|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051228094516/http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article334972.ece|archive-date=28 December 2005|df=dmy-all}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dutch-man-sentenced-for-role-in-gassing-death-of-kurds-1.521820|title=Dutch man sentenced for role in gassing death of Kurds|publisher=CBC|date=23 December 2005|access-date=31 January 2017}}

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|Article 549 & 550 of the Código Penal.

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|Article 311 of the Código Penal.

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|Articulo 319 9 of the Código Penal.

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| Title XIV (Law # 26926 (Article 129 of the Código Penal)).

| The law includes political groups or social groups as a protected group.

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| Section 5 of the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law (Republic Act No. 9851)

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{{flag|Poland}}

| Article 118 of the Kodeks Karny (penal code).

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{{flag|Portugal}}

| Article 239 of the Codigo Penal.

| The law includes political groups or social groups as a protected group.

{{flag|Republic of the Congo}}

| Law No. 8 - 98 of 31 October 1998 on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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|Article 356 of the Penal Code.

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{{flag|Russia}}

|Article 357 of the Federal Criminal Code.

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|Organic Law No. 08/96 on Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity.

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| Article 370 of the Penal Code 2005.{{cite web |url=https://www.pravno-informacioni-sistem.rs/SlGlasnikPortal/eli/rep/sgrs/skupstina/zakon/2005/85/6/reg|title=Penal Code od Serbia, Article 370: Genocide|access-date=15 May 2023}}

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|Genocide Act of 1969.

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| Section 130D and 130E of the Penal Code{{Singapore legislation|title=Penal Code|titlelink=|cap=Penal Code (Singapore)|ed=2008}}

| As inserted by section 28 of the Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007{{Singapore legislation|title=Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007|url=https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Acts-Supp/51-2007|dateformat=|no=51|year=2007}}

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| Article 52 (Genocide) of the Penal Code.

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| Articles 259-265 of the Criminal Code.

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| Chapter 35, art. 373 and 378 of the Penal Code, 1994.

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| Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act 2002 (Act 27 of 2002).

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|Article 607 of the Código Penal, Ley Orgánica 10/1995, 23 November.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/es/derecho/codigos/espana.htm|title=Artículo §607 del Codigo Penal|trans-title=Article §607 of the Penal Code|language=es|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|access-date=31 January 2017}}{{cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Richard|url=http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/5/wilson.html|title=Spanish Criminal Prosecutions Use International Human Rights Law to Battle Impunity in Chile and Argentina|journal=Ko'aga Roñe'eta|publisher=derechos.org|series=III|year=1996|access-date=31 January 2017|at=Footnote 14}}

|In June 2003 Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón jailed Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, (also known as Miguel Angel Cavallo), a former Argentine naval officer, extradited from Mexico to Spain pending his trial on charges of genocide and terrorism relating to the years of Argentina's military dictatorship, under a special case of universal jurisdiction.{{cite news|last=Daly|first=Emma|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/world/spanish-judge-sends-argentine-to-prison-on-genocide-charge.html|title=Spanish Judge Sends Argentine to Prison on Genocide Charge|newspaper=New York Times|date=30 June 2003|access-date=30 January 2017}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3085482.stm|title=Profile: Judge Baltasar Garzon|publisher=BBC|date=7 April 2010|access-date=30 January 2017}} On 29 February 2008, the Spanish agreed to extradite Cavallo to Argentina where he is charged with crimes against humanity. He still faces a trial in Spain on genocide charges at some later date.Jason Webb, [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL29510068]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113151652/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/29/idUSL29510068|date=2012-11-13}}, Reuters, 29 February 2008[http://en.people.cn/90001/90777/90853/6364032.html Spain authorizes Cavallo's extradition to Argentina], People's Daily, 1 March 2008 cites Xinhua

After a 2005 court ruling, Spanish judges' right to use universal jurisdiction to investigate and try foreigners suspected of genocidal acts committed outside Spain was {{en dash}} temporarily {{en dash}} strengthened.{{Cite web |title=Spain may judge Guatemala abuses |author= |publisher=BBC News |date=2005-10-05 |access-date=24 July 2008 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4313664.stm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724145456/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4313664.stm |archive-date=2008-07-24 }} Accordingly, on 7 July 2006, six Guatemalan military officials, among them Efraín Ríos Montt and Oscar Humberto Mejia, were formally charged as part of a case began in 1999 by Nobel peace prize winner Rigoberta Menchú over war crimes they committed during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996){{cite web|last=Yoch, Jr.|first=James M.|url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/07/spain-judge-charges-ex-generals-in.php|title=Spain judge charges ex-generals in Guatemala genocide case|work=JURIST|publisher=University of Pittsburgh School of Law|date=8 July 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306234002/http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/07/spain-judge-charges-ex-generals-in.php|archive-date=6 March 2010}}

On 11 January 2006 it was also reported that the Spanish High Court would investigate whether seven former Chinese officials, including the former President of China Jiang Zemin and former Prime Minister Li Peng participated in a genocide in Tibet.Spanish courts to investigate if a genocide took place in Tibet.

  • "Spain to investigate 'genocide' in Tibet" The Independent in the section "European News in brief" on Wednesday 11 January 2006 Page 19
  • [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10363286 Spanish court to investigate Tibet massacre case] Reuters report in the New Zealand Herald 12 January 2006 The court proceedings in the case brought by the Madrid-based Committee to Support Tibet against several former Chinese officials was opened by the Judge on 6 June 2006, and on the same day China denounced the Spanish court's investigation into claims of genocide in Tibet as an interference in its internal affairs and dismissed the allegations as "sheer fabrication".{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2212271.html|title=World in Brief: Lawyers take China to court|work=The Times|date=7 June 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311032854/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article672020.ece|archive-date=11 March 2007}}Alexa Olesen [https://web.archive.org/web/20060613125127/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article656410.ece China rejects Spain's 'genocide' claims] in The Independent 7 June 2006 The case was shelved in 2010, following another law passed in 2009 that restricted High Court investigations to those "involving Spanish victims, suspects who are in Spain, or some other obvious link with Spain". The judicial rules in place in Spain before passed this law had irritated many other countries such as Israel, whose officials had faced possible prosecution.{{Cite news|url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=26740|title=Spanish court shelves Tibet human rights case against China|publisher=phayul.com|agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur|date=26 February 2010|access-date=6 September 2010|location=Madrid|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908043156/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=26740|archive-date=8 September 2012}}
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| Constitution of Suriname of 1987: Chapter IV: International principles:Article 7.4.

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| Article 169 of the Lagboken (Act of 20 March 1963).

|In Sweden genocide was criminalized in 1964. According to the Swedish law any act intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such, and which is punished according to the criminal act is punished as genocide and carries a penalty from 4 years to life sentence. The Swedish legislation simply noticed that any severe common crime which is committed in order to destroy an ethnic group can be considered genocide, no matter what specific crime it is. Also intent, preparation or conspiring to genocide, and also failure to reveal such a crime is punishable as specified in penal code chapter 23, which is applicable to all crimes.{{cite web|url=http://www.preventgenocide.org/se/lag169.htm|title=Sverige Lagboken (Sweden) § 169 folkmord|trans-title=Statute Book (Sweden) § 169 genocide|language=sv|publisher=Prevent Genocide International|date=1964|access-date=29 January 2017}}

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| Article 264 of the Penal Code.

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| Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind.

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| Genocide Act, 1969.

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|Genocide Act, 1977.

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| Article 52 (Genocide) of the Penal Code.

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| Article 442 on Genocide, of Criminal Code.

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| The Genocide Act 1969,Frank Chalk: [http://migs.concordia.ca/documents/UKGenocideAct.pdf The United Kingdom Genocide Act of 1969: Origins and Significance] superseded by the International Criminal Court Act 2001.

|The United Kingdom has incorporated the International Criminal Court Act into domestic law. It was not retroactive so it applies only to events after May 2001 and genocide charges can be filed only against British nationals and residents. According to Peter Carter QC, chairman of the Bar's human rights committee[http://www.barhumanrights.org.uk/ Bar Human Rights Committee] "is the international human rights arm of the [http://www.barcouncil.org.uk/ Bar of England and Wales]. It is an independent body primarily concerned with the protection of the rights of advocates and judges around the world." "It means that British mercenaries who support regimes that commit war crimes can expect prosecution". The Coroners and Justice Act 2009, altered the ICC ACT so that prosecutions could be taken against anyone in the UK from January 1991 — The date from which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had jurisdiction to try offences under the Tribunal's Statute adopted by the United Nations Security Council.UK: As originally enacted, the ICC Act 2001 presented two loopholes. First, those involved in the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in the Former Yugoslavia could not be prosecuted, as the crimes happened before 2001. Second, the law applied only to people who were legally defined as resident in the UK, i.e.it did not apply to anyone on student, business, tourist, academic or skilled / domestic worker visas, or anyone who has been refused asylum under Article 1F(a) of the Refugee Convention but who cannot be returned home for fear of persecution. The Coroners and Justice Act 2009 [https://web.archive.org/web/20091203074947/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/ukpga_20090025_en_5 s.70] amends the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071217103938/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2001/ukpga_20010017_en_6 ICC Act 2001], and it closes these two loopholes (by adding s.65A and [https://web.archive.org/web/20091203080448/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/ukpga_20090025_en_6 s.67A] to the ICC Act). It gives jurisdiction from 1 January 1991, which is the date from which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had jurisdiction to try offences under the Tribunal's Statute adopted by the United Nations Security Council. The law has also been extended to cover the categories of persons not legally resident set out above

(https://web.archive.org/web/20090730070348/http://www.aegistrust.org/Parliamentary-work/no-safe-haven-gaps-in-uk-law-on-international-crimes.html No safe haven: gaps in UK law on international crimes], Aegis Trust, Accessed 18 March 2010).

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|United States federal law recognizes the crime of genocide where it was committed within the U.S. or by a national of the U.S.{{UnitedStatesCode|18|1091}}. A person found guilty of genocide can face the death penalty or life imprisonment. Persons found guilty of genocide may be denied entry or deported from the U.S.{{UnitedStatesCode|8|1101}}, {{UnitedStatesCodeSec|8|1182}}, {{UnitedStatesCodeSec|8|1227}}

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|Article 422 of the Criminal Code.{{Cite web|title=Criminal Code of 2015|url=http://vbpl.vn/TW/Pages/vbpq-toanvan.aspx?ItemID=96122|access-date=22 January 2021|language=vi}}

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See also

{{Main|Outline of genocide studies}}

References

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