Who has not signed the genocide convention

United Nations resolution which legally defined genocide

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition. It was the first legal instrument to codify genocide as a crime, and the first human rights treaty unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, on 9 December , during the third session of the United Nations General Assembly.^[1] The Convention entered into force on 12 January and has state parties as of June&#;^[update].^[2]

The Genocide Convention was conceived largely in response to World War II, which saw atrocities such as the Holocaust that lacked an adequate description or legal definition. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who had coined the term genocide in to describe Nazi policies in occupied Europe and the