![Raphael Lemkin (right) with Ambassador Amado of Brazil (left) before a plenary session of the General Assembly at which the Convention ... [LCID: lemkin1]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/38c2919b-89d7-4b02-a7d2-b71d8b21d70b.jpg)
Raphael Lemkin (right) with Ambassador Amado of Brazil (left) before a plenary session of the General Assembly at which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved. Palais de Chaillot, Paris, December 11, 1948.
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