Genocide means the deliberate and organized destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. It involves acts committed with the intent to destroy such a group, including killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions that bring about the group's physical destruction, preventing births within the group, and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. This definition comes from the 1948 Genocide Convention, an international legal framework that recognizes genocide as a crime with the specific intent to destroy a protected group.