Genocide Prevention

Patricia Derian, Diplomat Who Made Human Rights a Priority, Dies at 86

Patricia Derian, Diplomat Who Made Human Rights a Priority, Dies at 86  Paul Vitello, The New York Times  20 May 2016 Image: Patricia Derian, shown in 1977, served in the State Department during the Carter administration.CreditGeorge Tames/The New York Times Patricia Derian, a civil rights veteran who tangled with repressive dictators as President Jimmy Carter’s chief advocate on behalf of human rights abroad, died on Friday at her home in Chapel

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Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth

Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth Steven Erlanger, The New York Times 07 April 2016 Image: The Schaerbeek neighborhood in Brussels. Salah Abdeslam, the Islamic State recruit who participated in the Paris terror attacks, sought refuge in the neighborhood for weeks. CreditDaniel Berehulak for The New York Times BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic

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Rwanda: Kwibuka22 to Focus On Fighting Genocide Ideology

Rwanda: Kwibuka22 to Focus On Fighting Genocide Ideology By Eugene Kwibuka March 13, 2016   Events to mark the 22nd anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, dubbed Kwibuka22 from the Kinyarwanda word that means 'to remember', will be held across the country next month with a focus on fighting Genocide ideology, Sunday Times has learned. Officials from the National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) have said during interviews

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Sudan Update: UNSC Resolution Extends UNAMID

UNSC Resolution 2228 on Darfur (English)  

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Interactive Map Tracks Murder Rate Worldwide

Interactive Map Tracks Murder Rate Worldwide Robert Muggah and Renata Giannini, The Global Observatory 19 May 2015   Latin American and Caribbean countries are experiencing a murder epidemic, registering just 8% of the world’s population, but 33% of all reported homicides in 2012. There are over 120 cities in the region with homicide rates higher than 30 per 100,000. These urban centers and others around the world are experiencing almost

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Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions

When (In)Action Speaks Louder Than Words: Confronting the Collapse of Humanitarian Values in Foreign Policy Decisions Paul Slovic, University of Illinois Law Review Slip Opinions 24 2015     “Why do good people and their governments repeatedly turn away from intervention that could halt genocides and other mass abuses of human beings?”   “What devaluation of human lives could possibly allow this?”   I began to examine such

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Cambodia: A need for critical genocide studies

Forty years on: A need for critical genocide studies Khamboly Dy, Phnom Penh Post 13 April 2015    Image: Wounded Cambodians at the hospital of Phnom Penh, during the Cambodian civil war. Francoise demulder/Roger Viollet/afp April 17 marks the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge (KR) coming to power, after which the Cambodian people endured almost four years of the KR’s radical socialist transformation program between 1975 and 1979.   On

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Convention on Rohingya raises awareness on human rights violations and lack of accountability

Convention on Rohingya raises awareness on human rights violations and lack of accountability By Genocide Watch 9 July 2014 On June 21, 2014, the Burmese American Muslims Association hosted a conference that addressed the “enormity of violence against Rohingya and Burmese Muslims, the largest and deadliest conflict in Burmese history,” according to their website. Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, President of Genocide Watch, spoke at convention and offered

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The Fund for Peace releases its 2014 Fragile States Index

The Fund for Peace releases its 2014 Fragile States Index By Genocide Watch  26 June 2014  The Fund for Peace has released its 2014 Fragile States Index online.  According to its website, "the FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by [Fund for Peace's] CAST Software from electronically available sources." Previously called the Failed States Index, the Fragile States Index continues

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Myanmar Muslims Genocide Awareness Convention

On June 21, 2014, the Burmese American Muslims Association hosted a conference that addressed the “enormity of violence against Rohingya and Burmese Muslims, the largest and deadliest conflict in Burmese history,” according to their website. The conference was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Watch Genocide Watch's President, Dr. Gregory Stanton speak here.   The information for the conference is below: Deliberately launched for so-called

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