The prevention of genocides is on the agenda of international politics after the tragedies of the twentieth century in Europe and the opening of other fronts of persecution and extermination in the world. The milestone of this issue is the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, strongly desired by the Polish Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin.
The sensitivity of the States has grown with the new millennium, but it still remains very limited and too often powerless.