International Court of Justice hears genocide case against Myanmar as Israel faces similar allegations, raising questions ...

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, ...

An independent panel of experts commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council has concluded "on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and ...

What are the stakes of calling an armed conflict a genocide? Even as a ceasefire agreement takes hold – the term continues to come up in relation to the war in Gaza. So what are the stakes of calling ...

The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has passed a resolution stating that Israel’s “policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide.” Citing “Article II of the ...

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 ...

Ukraine's president has accused Russian forces of committing genocide. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of committing genocide after he said hundreds of civilians were found dead ...

As world leaders gather in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly, a growing number of experts are calling on diplomats to address what they describe as genocide and famine in Gaza. Israel ...

In an important step toward the economic isolation of Israel due to its genocide in Gaza, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has decided to divest from yet more Israeli companies. Norway’s ...

A month after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, I believed there was evidence that the Israeli military had committed war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity in its counterattack ...

Genocide is not a new phenomenon in human experience. It was practiced in Biblical times[1] and long before that. Indeed, many historians postulate the theory that Cro-Magnon deliberately exterminated ...