The groups protected by the Genocide Convention: perspectives and interpretative challenges

This essay aims to promote a critical analysis of the groups protected by the Genocide Convention to mark the most appropriate parameters for the correct understanding and identification by the interpreter of the international standard. In this sense, will be investigated in principle, the meaning and scope of the nationality of ideas, race, ethnicity and religion, demonstrating the difficulty of establishing objectives and strictly scientific criteria for an individualized concept of national collectivities, racial, ethnic and religious. Once established this premise, it will sustain the need for a common understanding of such communities, favoring a unitary semantic construction, rather than a compartmentalized view, the only way to determine the true scope of the normative protection against the crime of genocide .