2022: A year in the Middle East
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2022 was a year full of unprecedented protests, groundbreaking state visits, important elections, and new challenges for the Middle East...
Preserving an ancient culture under threat from genocide
After avoiding obliteration by Islamic State, the Yazidis of Iraq and beyond began an urgent project to record their rich heritage, says...
Identifying the Yazidi Genocide | Opinion
On Tuesday, the British House of Commons will debate whether the U.K. government should label ISIS atrocities against Yazidis as...
Afghanistan: Taliban Takeover Worsens Rights Crisis
Broad Threats to Women, Media; Aid Loss Heightens Famine Risk The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan accelerated the country’s human rights...
Cultural Desecration Is Racial Discrimination
A recent International Court of Justice decision regarding Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh could offer protection to threatened...
Francia y Suecia se unieron a Alemania para juzgar a los terroristas de ISIS por del genocidio.
Investigan más de dos millones de datos de los teléfonos móviles abandonados por los terroristas. Esto permite situar a los asesinos en...
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...
Burkina Faso niños de 12 años fueron usados como verdugos para masacrar a un pueblo y saquear su oro
El hecho ocurrió en Solha, al noreste del país. Allí, un grupo de yihadistas utilizó a los menores para que robaran y mataran a todo el...
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...
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