Article IV

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treaty provision

Article IV is the provision of the 1948 Genocide Convention that establishes the individual criminal responsibility of perpetrators of genocide, including state officials and leaders.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Article IV canonical	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	treaty provision ⓘ
adoptedBy	United Nations General Assembly ⓘ
adoptedIn	1948 ⓘ
aimsTo	ensure punishment of all perpetrators of genocide regardless of status ⓘ
appliesIn	armed conflict situations ⓘ peacetime situations ⓘ
appliesTo	constitutionally responsible rulers ⓘ persons committing any of the other acts enumerated in Article III of the Genocide Convention ⓘ persons committing genocide ⓘ private individuals ⓘ public officials ⓘ
bindingOn	States parties to the Genocide Convention ⓘ
category	international criminal law ⓘ international human rights law ⓘ law of genocide ⓘ
citedBy	International Court of Justice ⓘ international criminal tribunals ⓘ national courts in genocide cases ⓘ
clarifies	scope of personal liability for genocide under the Convention ⓘ
complements	obligation to prevent and punish genocide in Article I (Genocide Convention) ⓘ
enshrinesPrinciple	no official capacity exemption for genocide ⓘ
enteredIntoForceWith	Genocide Convention entry into force on 12 January 1951 ⓘ
establishes	individual criminal responsibility for genocide ⓘ
hasExactWording	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. ⓘ
hasLegalPrinciple	heads of state can be held personally responsible for genocide ⓘ individuals, not abstract entities, bear criminal responsibility for genocide ⓘ state officials can be held personally responsible for genocide ⓘ
hasNumber	4 ⓘ
hasRomanNumber	IV ⓘ
influenced	development of international criminal law on individual responsibility ⓘ statutes of international criminal tribunals ⓘ
inLanguage	Arabic ⓘ Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
legalEffect	makes perpetrators of genocide individually liable under international law ⓘ
locatedInDocument	GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Article 4 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
partOf	GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
rejects	immunity from responsibility for genocide based on official capacity ⓘ
relatedTo	GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Article I (Genocide Convention) GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Article II (Genocide Convention) GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Article III (Genocide Convention) GenocideConvention1948 ⓘ surface form: Article VI (Genocide Convention)
subjectMatter	criminal responsibility for genocide ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Article IV
Description of subject: Article IV is the provision of the 1948 Genocide Convention that establishes the individual criminal responsibility of perpetrators of genocide, including state officials and leaders.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

GenocideConvention1948 → containsArticle → Article IV ⓘ