Genocide Convention: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on Executive O, 81st Congress, 1st Session ... April 24, 27, and May 22, 1970U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 - 261 pages |
Common terms and phrases
action acts enumerated acts of genocide advice and consent AFL-CIO ALDRICH Ambassador YOST Amendment American Baptist Convention American Bar Association April 24 article II Assembly Chairman commit genocide competent tribunal CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Constitution contracting parties Court of Justice crime of genocide criminal D.C. DEAR SENATOR dispute domestic effect enact entered into force enumerated in article ethnical extradition treaty Federal Foreign Relations Committee FRANK CHURCH GARDNER Genocide Convention Genocide Treaty Government HAUSER hearings human rights implementing legislation intent to destroy International Court international law June 24 jurisdiction LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Malloy ment mental harm obligation offenses person 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 Signed at Washington statement statute territory TIAS tion Trenwith trial U.S. Senate understanding United Nations vention
Popular passages
Page 23 - 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.
Page 93 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Page 209 - And 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 7 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Page 9 - The present Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State to which an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly.
Page 176 - The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
Page 163 - ... provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 177 - 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.
Page 152 - If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment.
Page 121 - ... the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any state or territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded, with having committed treason, felony or other crime...