Genocide Convention facts
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William Proxmire, a US Senator that urged the US to ratify the Genocide Convention so much so that between 1967 and 1986 he gave a speech about it every single day the senate was in session - which equated to 3,211 speeches.
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As recently as the 1970's Canada worked to commit genocide on its indigenous population through forced sterilization programs and even threatened to opt out of the entire UN Genocide Convention
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The Mississippi State Democratic Party 1960 platform opposed the "ratification by the United States of the Genocide Convention and of the United Nations, the proposed Human Rights Convention and the Civil Rights Convention"
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The word genocide didn't exist before the Holocaust (nor was it recognized as a crime), it was a term coined by Raphael Lemkin to describe what the Nazi's had done. In 1948 he got his dream and the UN adopted the Genocide Convention
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The US government forcefully sterilised 40% of all Native American women in the 70s, in direct breach of the UN genocide convention.
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One of the reasons the US took 40 years to ratify the UN Genocide Convention was because of the definition of genocide, de jure segregation, and the treatment of blacks in the US
