The purpose of the annual commemoration at the United Nations is to continue to raise awareness of the international community about our collective responsibility to prevent genocide from happening anywhere in the world

["Preventing genocide is a shared responsibility, says UN chief"], The United Nations secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, has paid tribute to the Genocide victims, saying the best way to honour their memory and the resilience of the survivors is to ensure that genocide never happens again anywhere in the world. (20 April 2017)