According to this, any of the following action, when committed with the intent to eliminate a particular national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, constitutes genocide: (1) killing (2) causing serious bodily or 'mental' harm (3) deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to kill, (4) imposing measures intended to prevent births, and (5) forcibly transferring children out of a group.

Despite the very existence of this convention, genocide has been committed all over the world time and again. The UN should take a tougher stand on the issue to justify its rules.