The Genocide Convention – a solution or part of the problem?
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The Genocide Convention signified an international commitment to prevent genocide and protect human groups. Yet, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, Myanmar and now the persecution of the Uyghurs illustrate a failure to realise this ambition.
This webinar will explore how the Genocide Convention defines genocide and illustrate how the Convention is ill-equipped and unprepared to deal with the reality of modern atrocity.
Speaker: Joe Collins is a current Masters of Law, having just graduated from the University of York with First Class Honours in Law. His undergraduate dissertation critically reviewed the dolus specialis for the crime of genocide and challenged the ability of the Genocide Convention to adequately respond to modern atrocity. Joe has been a Regional Ambassador for the Holocaust Educational Trust since 2017 and has recently co-founded a youth-led initiative, Yet Again, which is committed to raising awareness of, and increasing knowledge of, modern atrocity. He combines his passion for genocide prevention and international criminal law to provide insights into what must change for modern atrocity to be adequately confronted.
Organiser René Cassin
Organiser of The Genocide Convention – a solution or part of the problem?
René Cassin promotes and protects universal human rights drawing on Jewish experience and values.
We do this through a combination of advocacy; policy analysis; public campaigning and education; and building the capacity of activists and lawyers to promote and protect human rights.
Our current campaigns include:
- highlightling the evils of modern slavery and human trafficking
- calling for a 28-day time limit to immigration detention
- solidarity with discrimination faced by the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
- opposing hate speech and hate crime
- speaking out against China's genocidal treatment of its Uyghur Muslims
- underlining the vital role of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights in helping ordinary people in everyday situations
