• Source: List of parties to the Genocide Convention

      • The list of parties to the Genocide Convention encompasses the states who have signed and ratified or acceded to Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to prevent and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime.
      On 11 December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was opened for signature. Ethiopia became the first state to deposit the treaty on 1 July 1949. Ethiopia was also among the very few countries that incorporated
      the convention in its national law immediately— as early as the 1950s. The treaty came into force and closed for signature on 12 January 1951. Since then, states that did not sign the treaty can now only accede to it. The instrument of ratification, accession, or succession is deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations
      As of June 2024, 153 states have ratified or acceded to the treaty, most recently Zambia in April 2022. One state, the Dominican Republic, has signed but not ratified the treaty.


      Ratified or acceded states




      Unrecognized state, ratified treaty




      State that has signed but not ratified




      Municipal laws


      The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) came into effect in January 1951. Article 5, 6 and 7 of the CPPCG cover obligations that sovereign states that are parties to the convention must undertake to enact:

      Art. 5: 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 enumerated in article III.
      Art. 6: 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.
      Art. 7 Genocide and the other acts enumerated in article III shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.
      The Contracting Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in accordance with their laws and treaties in force.

      Since 1951 the following states have enacted provisions within their municipal law to prosecute or extradite perpetrators of genocide:


      See also



      International Criminal Court
      States parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
      List of genocides by death toll


      References


      "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide". United Nations Treaty Series. Archived from the original on 2024-01-11. Retrieved 2013-05-30.


      Further reading


      Bibliography of genocide studies

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