The Genocide Convention is a 1948 UN treaty that defines genocide as such that is committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Beyond documenting Russian mass atrocities in Ukraine, the congressional measure points to Putin's denial of Ukrainian sovereignty and state media's equation of "de-Nazification" with "de-Ukrainianization."
The Swiss Parliament has passed a resolution declaring the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine, as a genocidal act that claimed millions of lives.
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) identified the decolonization of Russia as a necessary precondition for establishing enduring peace in Ukraine, calling for support of the Peace Formula and Crimean Platform and urging member states to establish a Special Tribunal to hold Russia accountable for its atrocities in Ukraine.