In the United States, April is designated as Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month and is aimed at commemorating and raising awareness about genocides that occurred in the past, including the ...

Atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region are spreading from town to town in an organized campaign of violence that includes mass ...

Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time ...

In this January 2026 report, Genocide and the Courts: A Brief Review of Jurisprudence on the Crime of Genocide from Nuremberg to Today, Ambassador David Scheffer narrates how courts around the world, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Jan 25, 2025, 03:13pm EST The gates of the Nazi concentration camp ...

International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings in the Myanmar genocide case highlight the need for justice for the ethnic ...

In a statement shared on the social media platform X, ETGE recalled that on January 19, 2021, the United States officially determined that the People's Republic of China was committing genocide and ...

Communities facing genocide have never felt so alone. Survivors facing extermination and destructive violence are asking tough and critical questions. "Why does the world do so little to protect our ...

Samantha Lakin, PhD, is a specialist in comparative genocide and a Senior Fellow at The Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CPDD) at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where she also ...

Ever since Raphael Lemkin heard Winston Churchill’s August 1941 broadcast on the BBC, in which the prime minister declared, “The whole of Europe has been wrecked ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. David J. Scheffer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on international law and international criminal justice.