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International Criminal Law's role in Reducing Global Genocide Crime

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International criminal law defines all international crimes like war crimes, genocide, crimes of aggression, crimes of humanity or the procedures applied before tribunals or international courts. All these crimes are related to humanitarian crises because they take place during disputes. But international law focus on the States' issues; it is responsible for individual crimes. What about genocide crime According to international law, the genocide convention is just like an instrument that first codified a genocide crime. The first human right is the (Genocide Convention) that General Assembly adopted in 1948. After the Second World War, cruelty is signified by the international committee of the community to 'never again'. Adopting this right is essential for developing the international criminal law or human rights we are familiar with today. The crime of genocide can take place in both situations, like at war time or peace time. The definition set in the genocide