 See also Ethnic Cleansing and the Church
Ethnic Cleansing and the Schools
Ethnic Cleansing Issues
There are only 100,000 Indian women of childbearing age who have escaped sterilization.
"Native American Peoples on the Trail of Tears Once More." Akwesasne Notes, Spring 1979, p. 18.
Although there is no consensus of opinion as to what the population of Native America was before European settlement, estimates ranging from as low as 8 million to as high as 112 million in both American continents attest to a Native population much higher than that of today...
In North America, the Indian population reached its nadir at the turn of the twentieth century, when it fell to 237,000...
Fighting Back: American Indian Reactions to Coerced Sterilization
Investigations renew fears that government policies toward Native Americans, whatever their intentions, will inevitably result in genocide.
Dillingham, Brint, "Indian Women and IHS Sterilization Practices," American Indian Journal, January, 1977. Vol. 3:1, p. 27.
In South Dakota, 40 percent of all adoptions made by the State's Department of Public Welfare since 1967-68 are of Indian children, yet Indians make up only 7 percent of the juvenile population. The number of South Dakota Indian children living in foster homes is per capita, nearly 16 times greater than the non-Indian rate.
Except from the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
...distrust of law officers runs high in and around South Dakota's nine reservations, where unemployment often is staggering and alcoholism widespread...Highlighting the divide, several members of the Sioux tribe, which includes Lakota, Dakota and Nakota, held up a banner Tuesday in the back of the meeting room as the report was released. It read "Stop Lakota Ethnic Cleansing.''...Since May 1998, the bodies of eight men, six of them Indian, have been found drowned in the shallow waters of Rapid Creek. Most were homeless; all but one had a high blood-alcohol level. No arrests have been made.
Racial Enmity Between Whites and Native Americans, Steven Barrett,
Associated Press Writer
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Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocideFrom the United Nations website.
Status
of ratifications, reservations and declarations may be found at this link Approved
and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by
General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948
entry
into force 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII
The Contracting Parties,
Having
considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United
Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide
is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims
of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world,
Recognizing
that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on
humanity, and
Being convinced
that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international
co-operation is required,
Hereby
agree as hereinafter provided:
Article
1
The Contracting
Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or
in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake
to prevent and to punish.
Article
2
In the
present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed
with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing
members of the group;
(b) Causing
serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about
its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly
transferring children of the group to another group.
Article
3
The following
acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy
to commit genocide;
(c) Direct
and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d ) Attempt
to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity
in genocide.
Article
4
Persons
committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III
shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers,
public officials or private individuals.
Article
5
The Contracting
Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions,
the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present
Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons
guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Article
6
Persons
charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article
III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory
of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal
as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which
shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Article
7
Genocide
and the other acts enumerated in article III shall not be considered
as political crimes for the purpose of extradition.
The Contracting
Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in accordance
with their laws and treaties in force.
Article
8
Any Contracting
Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take
such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider
appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or
any of the other acts enumerated in article III.
Article
9
Disputes
between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application
or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to
the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts
enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court
of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Article
10
The present
Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
texts are equally authentic, shall bear the date of 9 December 1948.
Article
11
The present
Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf
of any Member of the United Nations and of any nonmember State to which
an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly.
The present
Convention shall be ratified, and the instruments of ratification shall
be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
After 1
January 1950, the present Convention may be acceded to on behalf of
any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State which has
received an invitation as aforesaid. Instruments of accession shall
be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article
12
Any Contracting
Party may at any time, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations, extend the application of the present Convention
to all or any of the territories for the conduct of whose foreign relations
that Contracting Party is responsible.
Article
13
On the
day when the first twenty instruments of ratification or accession have
been deposited, the Secretary-General shall draw up a proces-verbal
and transmit a copy thereof to each Member of the United Nations and
to each of the non-member States contemplated in article 11.
The present
Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the
date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession.
Any ratification
or accession effected, subsequent to the latter date shall become effective
on the ninetieth day following the deposit of the instrument of ratification
or accession.
Article
14
The present
Convention shall remain in effect for a period of ten years as from
the date of its coming into force.
It shall
thereafter remain in force for successive periods of five years for
such Contracting Parties as have not denounced it at least six months
before the expiration of the current period.
Denunciation
shall be effected by a written notification addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
Article
15
If, as
a result of denunciations, the number of Parties to the present Convention
should become less than sixteen, the Convention shall cease to be in
force as from the date on which the last of these denunciations shall
become effective. Article 16
A request
for the revision of the present Convention may be made at any time by
any Contracting Party by means of a notification in writing addressed
to the Secretary-General.
The General
Assembly shall decide upon the steps, if any, to be taken in respect
of such request.
Article
17
The Secretary-General
of the United Nations shall notify all Members of the United Nations
and the non-member States contemplated in article XI of the following:
(a) Signatures,
ratifications and accessions received in accordance with article 11;
(b) Notifications
received in accordance with article 12;
(c) The
date upon which the present Convention comes into force in accordance
with article 13;
(d) Denunciations
received in accordance with article 14;
(e) The
abrogation of the Convention in accordance with article 15;
(f) Notifications
received in accordance with article 16.
Article
18
The original
of the present Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the
United Nations.
A certified
copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to each Member of the United
Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in article
XI.
Article
19
The present
Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the United
Nations on the date of its coming into force. 
Links
 The Human Rights Library at the University of Minnesota. A wealth of well-organized documents under the categories of United Nations Documents and Instrments; The International Bill of Human Rights; Self-Determination; Prevention of Discrimination on the Basis of Race, Religion, Belief, and Protection of Minorities; Women's Rights; Slavery and Slavery-like Practices; Rights of Prisoners and Detainees; Protection from Torture, Ill-Treatment and Disappearing; Human Rights in the Administration of Justice; Juvenile Offenders; Rights of the Child; World Conferences on Human Rights and Millennium Declaration; Freedom of Association; Employment and Forced Labor; Marriage; Education; Economic Rights, Privacy and Peace; Development; Disabled Persons; Freedom of Information and Right to Culture: Refugees and Asylum; Nationality, Statelessness and Rights of Aliens; War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide and Terrorism; Law of Armed Conflict; Terrorism and Human Rights; U.N. Activities and Empoyees; Regional Conventions.
Prevent Genocide International.
Rome Statute of the International Crime Court at Prevent Genocide International.
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