GENOCIDE IN THE NEWS

The Opposition demanded the Bill be sent to a select committee of the House for scrutiny; Union Minister says it will ensure protection to persons who face discrimination due to biological issues LGBTQIA+ community members hold placards during a protest demanding the withdrawal of the Transgender Amendment Bill 2026, in Mumbai, on March 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday (March 25, 2026) passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendme

Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, suggested that Israeli troops might remain in parts of Lebanon even after the fighting there winds down. Israeli military vehicles near the border of Lebanon on Saturday.Credit...Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Israel’s defense minister said on Tuesday that the country’s military plans to expand the territory under its control in southern Lebanon, suggesting it was ramping up its ground offensive against the Iranian-

Berlin says it cannot support Israel’s case against charges without compromising defense of accusations by Nicaragua that Germany violated international law by backing Gaza war The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its order on the request by Nicaragua to order Germany to cease arms sales to Israel against the background of the conflict in Gaza at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the ICJ, April 30, 2024. (Courtesy: International Court of Justice) JTA — G

A volunteer escorts a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited in February with his mother, who is from Honduras and awaits deportation at the Dilley family detention center outside of San Antonio. Christopher Lee for ProPublica The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave the

Palestinian mourners carry the body of policeman Khaled al-Zayan during the funeral of three policemen, who were killed in an Israeli strike on a checkpoint, according to medics, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 27, 2026. (Reuters File Photo) The Netherlands told the International Court of Justice that starvation and the deliberate obstruction of humanitarian aid could be key indicators of genocidal intent, in its submission to the case brought by South Africa

Healthcare workers told The Guardian that Israel is deliberately targeting medical facilities, and as such, emergency teams cannot visit family or friends and must sleep in ambulances parked far away from each other, so that if there is a strike, it does not kill all the staff Ambulances evacuate those wounded in an IDF strike in Beirut this week. Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have targeted at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances, and kill

Palestinians say the move is part of a wider Israeli strategy to leverage security tensions to tighten restrictions Palestinians gather outside the Old City walls to pray in protest of the closure of al-Aqsa mosque. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images For the first time since 1967, al-Aqsa mosque – Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site – was closed at the end of Ramadan on Friday, with tensions rising among Palestinians as Israeli authorities keep the complex shut, forcing worshi

file photo Authorities in the Abyei Administrative Area said on Thursday that more than 20,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region are in urgent need of food, shelter, and other essentials. The displaced, living in Juol-Jook in Rumamer County and in Abyei’s youth center, fled violence in neighboring areas earlier this month. Suspected armed youth from Mayom County in Unity State attacked villages in Biemnhom County, Ruweng Administrative Area, killing civilians

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivers a government declaration to Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, on the upcoming EU summit, in Berlin, Germany, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse BERLIN/PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - (This March 18 story has been corrected to fix the Spanish deputy prime minister's name to Jesus, not Jose, in paragraph 18) For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blu

Photo of Albergue Amparito, Oasis de Paz del Espíritu Santo, Villahermosa taken by the author and reproduced here with permission. The second Trump administration has distorted the concept of “safe third country” beyond recognition, creating what amounts to a system of legal abandonment for some of the most vulnerable migrants. In January 2026, a small group of us from the Everywhere Border project travelled to Mexico’s southern states to conduct interviews and focus groups w