A/HRC/4/WG.3/6 page 36 117. At present, special emphasis should be placed in this respect on CERD early warning measures and urgent procedures and United Nations early warning mechanisms, including interaction between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and other concerned United Nations agencies.103 C. Genocide 118. The crime of genocide and its links to discrimination based on ethnicity, race and religion is defined by the 1951 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”104 This Convention has been recognized as part of customary international law105 and the statutes of the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) all reiterate the definition of the crime of genocide as contained in the Convention. 119. The DDPA recognizes “that apartheid and genocide … constitute crimes against humanity and are major sources and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and acknowledge the untold evil and suffering caused by these acts.”106 The DPPA also affirms that wherever and whenever these acts occur, they must be condemned and their recurrence prevented.107 120. The definition of genocide under the aforementioned Convention and the jurisprudence of the ICTY and ICTR provide clearly that in the case of genocide, victims are targeted by reason of their membership in a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. ICERD does not contain specific clauses referring to genocide but emphasizes that States parties are to “condemn all 103 See para. 153 of the Durban Programme of Action, which calls for strengthening coordination between DPKO and other United Nations agencies. 104 Article 2 of the Convention. 105 See the opinion of the International Court of Justice on the provisions of the Convention, S/25704. 106 Paras. 15 and 100 of the Declaration. 107 See para. 99 of the Declaration.