Genocide Convention, Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... 91-2, on Executive O, 81-1. April 24, 27, and May 22, 19701970 - 261 pages |
Common terms and phrases
action acts enumerated acts of genocide advice and consent ALDRICH Ambassador YOST Amendment American Bar Association article II Bricker amendment Chairman commit genocide competent tribunal Congress Constitution contracting parties Court of Justice crime of genocide criminal dispute domestic effect enact entered into force enumerated in article ethnical extradition treaty Foreign Relations Committee FRANK CHURCH GARDNER Genocide Convention Genocide Treaty Government HAUSER hearings homicide human rights implementing legislation intent to destroy International Court international law international penal tribunal June 24 jurisdiction LNTS Malloy ment mental harm North Vietnam obligation offenses person present Convention President Prevention and Punishment provisions question ratification ratified the Convention ratify the Genocide REHNQUIST religious group reservation Senate Foreign Relations Senator CHURCH Senator COOPER Senator ERVIN Senator JAVITS Senator PELL Stat statement statute subcommittee Supreme Court territory TIAS tion Trenwith trial U.S. Senate understanding United Kingdom United Nations vention
Popular passages
Page 13 - (6) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (a) Killing 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; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to
Page 36 - of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and punish. The United States, which was founded on the basis of protest against governmental excesses, and which grew great in substantial measure because it was a haven and the hope for oppressed persons everywhere,
Page 199 - 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 which the act was committed, or by "such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to such contracting parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Page 197 - If the Senate should ratify the Genocide Convention, it would bring into play article IX which provides that disputes between the parties to the convention relating to the "interpretation, application, or fulfillment" of the convention "shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Page 201 - it intends to prohibit so they may have a certain and understandable rule of conduct and know what it is their duty to avoid. "A statute which either forbids or requires 'the doing of an act in terms so
Page 137 - The very absurdity of these possibilities brings into focus the extraordinary ambiguity of the statutory language ... a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, violates the first essential of due process of law . . .
Page 186 - ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. ABTICLE
Page 182 - Mrs. EASTMAN. I would just like to refer to one provision of the convention. Although the opinion on this question is not one-sided by any means, if you look at article V of the convention, it requires the contracting parties undertake to enact in accordance with their respective constitutions the necessary legislation.
Page 111 - Mr. GARDNER. The answer to that is complicated, as the Senator is aware. The article that you refer to says that persons charged with genocide shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the state in the territory in which the act was committed.
Page 176 - 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