Cultural Desecration Is Racial Discrimination
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
A recent International Court of Justice decision regarding Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh could offer protection to threatened...
Between Belarus & Poland, Yazidi refugees find cold & hunger – then ‘came back to nothing’ in Iraq
Smugglers took their money to spirit them out of Iraq, but Belarus’s authoritarian regime pushed them to Europe’s frontier, where Polish...
20 Years of US Torture – and Counting
Global Costs of Unlawful Detention and Interrogation Post-9/11 (New York) – Twenty years after Guantánamo Bay detention operations...
Sweden and France launch joint task force to prosecute ISIS fighters over Yazidi genocide
Joint investigation team will avoid the need to interview victims twice Authorities in Sweden and France have launched a joint team to...
Atrocities Of Past Two Decades And Zero Accountability For Its Culprits – OpEd
Major global events, committed in the name of freedom and democracy, have occurred in the past two decades that cannot be categorized as...
Guantanamo Bay: ‘The legal equivalent of outer space’
How the US decided on a place where suspected ‘terrorists’ could be jailed without legal protections after 9/11. Twenty years ago, the...
Genocidal rape is a peril of conflict we must not ignore
Most rapes are not the result of the by-products of a conflict, but a pre-planned strategy to commit genocide. Rape as an instrument of...
Yazidi leaders urge world to prevent genocide at hands of Turkey
Yazidi politician Merwan Bedel was killed by Turkey as revenge for the defeat of Isis in Shengal, co-chair of the regions autonomous...
Lemkin Institute Presents at International Conference in Kurdistan, Iraq
16 December 2021 International Scientific Conference on Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention Location: University of Human Development...
Leaving Gender Out of Genocide Obscures Its Horror
As the 1948 Genocide Convention makes clear, killing isn’t the only crime. More than 75 years after the Holocaust’s horrors, the solemn...
Iraq in the News
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