The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 96(I), declaring genocide a crime under international law and calling for an international convention. Raphael Lemkin’s work and postwar debates drew on Nazi crimes, while the later convention emerged through negotiations among states with differing interests and histories of mass violence.
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What did UN General Assembly Resolution 96(I) declare in 1946?
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The resolution called genocide a crime and urged creation of an international convention.
UN Resolution 96(I) recognized genocide as a crime before the 1948 Genocide Convention was adopted.
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The General Assembly adopted Resolution 96(I) in December 1946; the Convention followed in 1948.