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    Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish Jewish lawyer who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning...
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  • they developed their project into the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, naming it after Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish lawyer and...
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    term 'genocide' was coined in 1944 by a Jewish Polish legal scholar, Raphael Lemkin, who wrote that "the term does not necessarily signify mass killings"...
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    and the European Union had recognised the Holodomor as a genocide. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide" and initiated the Genocide Convention...
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    Order Raphael Koster (born 1971), American game designer Raphael Lasker (1838–1904), German-American rabbi Raphael Lemkin, Holocaust survivor Raphael Martelli...
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  • Lemkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Raphael Lemkin, Polish Jewish lawyer who is known for coining the term genocide Stav Lemkin...
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    1944 book by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin that is best known for introducing the concept of genocide, which Lemkin coined from the Greek word γένος...
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    their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of...
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    speakers-and-events/all-speakers-and-events/raphael-lemkin-history-of-genocide-and-colonialism "Raphael Lemkin's History of Genocide and Colonialism". United...
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    remains in 1943 and gave him a state funeral. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin read about the trial in the news and was inspired to conceptualize the...
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    destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and...
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    destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and...
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    these definitions focus on intent, while others focus on outcomes. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide", considered the displacement of Native...
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    "victory" rally. The Simele massacre inspired Raphael Lemkin to create the concept of Genocide. In 1933, Lemkin made a presentation to the Legal Council of...
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  • scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, a word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. The word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος (génos...
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    destruction of a people in whole or in part. The term was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and...
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    system, and harsh grain requisitions. Coiner of the term genocide, Raphael Lemkin considered the repression of the Orthodox Church to be a prong of genocide...
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    Libertarian, and writing a positive review of James J. Martin's book on Raphael Lemkin, which was published by the IHR. Konkin personally rejected Holocaust...
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  • pressing human rights struggles of our day. In 2006, 2008, and 2010, the Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award was presented at the North American Conferences on...
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  • experts, including Raphael Lemkin – the individual who coined the term genocide – colonization is intrinsically genocidal. Lemkin saw genocide via colonialism...
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    lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the same book that coined the term genocide. The destruction of culture was a central component in Lemkin's formulation...
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  • professor at George Mason University. Irvin-Erickson, Douglas (2016). Raphael Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9341-8...
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    ownership became more profitable than acquisition of forced labour. Raphael Lemkin (coiner of the term genocide) considered Spain's abuses of the native...
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  • lacked an adequate description or legal definition. Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who had coined the term genocide in 1944 to describe Nazi policies...
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    cited the work of Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), who coined the term genocide and who considered colonization intrinsically genocidal. Lemkin had explained that...
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    Genocide became a field of study in the mid-1940s, with the work of Raphael Lemkin, who coined genocide and started genocide research, and its primary...
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    genocide of Jews, and it became known in English as the Holocaust. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide to describe this category of state crime...
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    it also included the Taíno genocide in its Genocide Studies Program. Raphael Lemkin considered Spain's abuses of the native population of the Americas to...
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    women they wanted and ignored native institutions, rights, and customs. Raphael Lemkin Diseases imported by Arab traders, European colonists and African porters...
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    genocide denial, while "ethnocide" tries to facilitate the opposite. Raphael Lemkin, the lawyer who coined genocide in 1943 as the union of "the Greek word...
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