ArmInfo. "Prevention of genocides is a daily work in the field of human rights," said CE Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic in a video message to the participants of the third global forum "Against the Crime of Genocide" being held in Yerevan.
The CE Commissioner for Human Rights recalled that after the Second World War, the governments of the countries decided to bring the perpetrators to justice. This was reflected also in the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
However, as she pointed out, over the next 10 years the implementation of the documents was not ensured. "The genocides continue, the people are deliberately killed, and all this happens in front of world community and the guilty remain unpunished," Mijatovic said. "Preventing genocides is a daily work in the field of human rights. You can't wait for the first victims to take action," the CE Commissioner for Human Rights said, noting that appropriate education is extremely important in preventing genocides.
The Forum "Against the Crime of Genocide", which will be held in Yerevan between December 9 and 11, is dedicated to the prevention of the crime of genocide through education, culture and museums, organized by the Armenian Foreign Ministry with the assistance of the United Nations Office for the Prevention of Genocides, and in collaboration with the International Association of Genocide Researchers. At the opening Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Prevention of Genocides Adama Dieng, Rapporteur of the OSCE PA's Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions Kyriakos Kyriakou-Hadjiyianni , as well as Henry C. Theriault ,President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Coordinator of Global Action Prevention of Mass Crime Coordinator (GAAMAC). The next day, on December 11, the opening ceremony of the Raphael Lemkin Street will be held (now the 1st blind pass of Marshal Baghramyan Avenue).