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On November 13, 2019, the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the UN General Assembly engaged in discussions concerning elaboration and adopted a new convention on crimes against humanity at its seventy-fourth session.[1] The Committee considered Chapter IV of the 2019 report of the International Law Commission (ILC) on the work of its seventy-first session,[2] which contains the draft articles on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.[3] The Committee noted that the Commission had decided to recommend the draft articles on prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity to the General Assembly and recommended the elaboration of a convention by the Assembly or by an international conference of plenipotentiaries on the basis of the draft articles.