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The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide stands alongside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as one of the key pillars of international human rights law, and for this Human Rights Day in , I want to highlight the critical importance of the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes, which includes genocide.

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When atrocity crimes occur, there is an immediate need to stop these atrocious acts, followed by the equally urgent tasks of documenting, investigating, and ultimately prosecuting the perpetrators. However, from to today, we have not given enough attention to true prevention. Atrocity crimes do not occur in a vacuum. There is a long chain of events and conditions that precede atrocity crimes.

Isolation, segregation, and discrimination frequently, if not always, precede the rationalization of atrocity crimes against a group of people.