The ceasefire has not put an end to my people’s suffering; it has only given them time to mourn. Human remains are retrieved from the rubble of a home in a ruined neighbourhood of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on January 22, 2025 [Bashar Taleb/AFP] It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been replaced by silence. But this silence is not peace. It is a silence that screams loss, devastatio

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From first-person accounts of the Armenian and Yazidi genocides, to Anne Frank's diary and the Nuremberg prosecutor who 'peered into hell', we need to listen to those who experienced genocide, to seek accountability – and take heed of the early warning signs. The unmediated first-person voice individualizes the unfathomable numbers of those targeted by genocide: 'Anne Frank The Exhibition' at the Center for Jewish History, New YorkCredit: Eduardo Munoz/REUTERS Before October

ICJ making its first ruling in South Africa's genocide case in January 2024 © ANP/AFP via Getty Images Marking the one-year anniversary...

Many German companies and institutions are intimately connected with Israel. Any change in support for its annihilation of Palestinians would result in the loss of profits and influence

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer [Reuters] Commonwealth leaders have agreed the "time has come" for a conversation about reparations for the slave trade, despite the UK's desire to keep the subject off the agenda at a two-day summit in Samoa. A document signed by 56 heads of government, including UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, acknowledges calls for "discussions on reparatory justice" for the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade. The statement says it is time for a "m

Happening Now: Biden seeks to strengthen relationship with tribal nations with Arizona visit. [The Hill | YouTube] President Biden apologized Friday for Native American boarding schools that were part of U.S. policy for 150 years and stripped children away from their tribes and culture.   “The federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened, until today. I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did. I fo

Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions. [National Archives] Translated by Antony Shugaar On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese association of A- and H-bomb survivors. The following morning, on his train ride home, Tanaka read the speech more carefu

Exclusive: Those with ‘interest in keeping world hooked on fossil fuels’ should not oversee climate talks, say report authors Azerbaijan’s climate action plan was rated ‘critically insufficient’ by Climate Action Tracker in September. [Sergei Grits | AP] Azerbaijan, the host of the Cop29 global climate summit, will see a large expansion of fossil gas production in the next decade, a new report has revealed. The authors said that the crucial negotiations should not be overseen