Key Terms
Someone who commits a crime
Perpatrator
What is the Genocide Convention
the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition
Define Genocide
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Infant mortality, How long they've been independant (new country?) Population size, The region Are examples of
basic Characteristics
Basic Rights and freedoms that all people should have
Civil Rights
A person Harmed by a crime or diasaster
Victim
What event created the genocide convention
The Holocaust
In what year was genocide officially recognized as a crime under the Genocide Convention
1948
Reppression by government, Freedom of religion, disscussion, political views are examples of?
Human Rights and Civil LIberities
words or symbols that attack people based on race or religon
Hate speech/hate symbols
Serious Crimes on a mass scale that violate human rights
Crimes against Humanity
what man coined the phrase genocide
Raphael Lemkin
What Qualifies a event as a genocide
Killing members of the group. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
Racism, discrimination against a group, education, job opprutunities, income, acsess to food/housing are examples of
Socioeconomic
A terrible action that hurts/kills a mass of people
Mass atrocity
Treating people unfairly based on race religon etc
Discrimination
How many acts are classifed as a attempted genocide
5
Who would be the first person convicted of genocide (you can name the country or genocide)
Jean-Paul Akayesu (Rwanda, The Rwandan Genocide)
Any mass killings or ongoing government censorship typically between countries
War and Conflict
Unfair opinion of someone based on race, religon etc without knowing the person
Prejduce
A Softer way of saying something bad
Euphemism
Where was the document signed
France
How many Genocides are Oficially Recognised by the Canadian Government
8 the Armenian genocide the Holodomor the Holocaust the Rwandan genocide the Srebrenica massacre the Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL the Uyghur genocide and the Rohingya genocide
Minority Control of Government. Political Parties are banned and economic groups are kept out of power
Governance
This list created by the United Nations, states basic human rights that every person should have Equality,respect,freedom of speech,education. this is not a law but a guide for countries
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (UDHR)