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==Genocide Convention==After the abuses of World War II, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the ''Genocide Convention '' on 9 December 1948 by Resolution 260A (III).<ref name="genocide1948">{{REFdocument|title=Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

}}</ref>The Convention defines genocide and makes it a crime.  Article II of the Convention defines genocide as: <blockquote>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) {{Highlighting|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.<ref name="genocide1948" /></blockquote> ==International Criminal Court==The [[International Criminal Court]], which sits at The Hague in the [[Netherlands]], has authority to try persons charged with genocide. {{SEEALSO}}* [[Human rights]]