US EditionRaphael Lemkin: Father of the Genocide Convention
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Raphael Lemkin: Father of the Genocide Convention
Raphael Lemkin was a Polish-American lawyer and activist today best known for coining the term “genocide” and leading the charge to have it enshrined in international law as a punishable crime under the 1951 Genocide Convention. Though the convention has not prevented genocides from being perpetrated, Lemkin was singularly responsible for providing the only legal basis on which those who commit them can be punished. Born 1900, Lemkin was raised …
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