Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: On the Human Rights situation in Iraq March 2015   The present report has been prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution A/HRC/RES/S-22/1, in which the Council requested the High Commissioner to dispatch a mission to Iraq to investigate alleged violations and abuses of international

Persecuted by Islamic State, Yazidis turn to ICC for Justice Toby Sterling, Reuters 24 September 2015   Image: Kurdish peshmerga forces carry coffins, draped with Kurdish flags, containing the remains of Yazidis who were killed by militants of the Islamic State, during a burial ceremony at Mazar Sharaf al-Din, north of Sinjar Mountain, August 13, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL   Advocates for the Yazidi people of northern Iraq, who have been

Pressure Grows to Declare War against Christians a Genocide Douglas Burton, The Washington Times 22 September, 2015   Image: copyright of the Washington Times Human rights activists see it. Foreign leaders see it. And more than 80 members of the U.S. Congress see it. Together, they are pressuring the leader of the free world to declare there is a Christian genocide going on in the Middle East. Their campaign — which was discussed at a Capitol

U.S. and West Victimize Christians Fleeing ISIS Raymond Ibrahim, The Gatestone Institute 6 September  2015   Image: Iraqis attending Mass in June at a church in Al Qosh, where many Christians have fled after being intimidated into leaving their homes in Mosul. Credit Associated Press (Found in New York Times article 2014) Western nations are not merely ignoring Muslim persecution of Christians in the Middle East, they are actively supporting

Call it Genocide Ann Corkery, The Washington Times 22 September 2015     Image:  In this Sept. 19, 2015 President Barack Obama speaks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundations 45th Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Awards Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)  It is widely expected that during this week’s visit to the United States, Pope Francis will say what is already clear

Chopping up Christians in the Middle East: ‘If they kill us all, would the West do something then?’ George J. Marlin, The Washington Times 22 September 2015    Image: Illustration on ISIS slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Syria by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times   There were two significant developments this month: Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nevada Republican and Anna G. Eshoo, California Democrat, introduced a Congressional resolution

An Appeal to the United States Congress from Genocide Scholars   Image: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Copyright CNN 2015 We, the undersigned, each a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the world’s largest organization of experts on genocide, call upon the United States Congress to declare that the crimes committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Da’esh, constitute genocide in violation

The Islamic State is committing genocide Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, Washington Examiner 14 September  2015   Image: In this file photo take Thursday, June 19, 2014, Islamic State group militants stand with a captured Iraqi army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo, File) Members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, representing the world's largest organization of experts

Once again, breaking the promise of “Never Again” Frank Wolf, Washington Examiner 15 September, 2015   Image: Countless political and religious leaders from around the world have acknowledged that the Islamic State is committing an ongoing genocide in Iraq. (AP Photo) Outside of the Dachau concentration camp there is a sign written in five languages — Hebrew, English, French, German and Russian — saying "never again." Following the unfathomable

ISIS IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE Gregory Stanton 10 September 2015   Members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, representing the world’s largest organization of experts on genocide, have called upon the United States Congress to declare that the crimes committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) also known as Daesh, constitute genocide in violation of the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the