GENOCIDE  WATCH

By Juliana Girotto Genocide Watch IRGC military personnel at a military rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via AP) Recent evidence suggests that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has consolidated power in Iran. With the IRGC now functioning as the dominant governing authority, the situation in Iran represents a shift from theocracy to militarized rule, with significant implications for civilian protection, political re

By Juliana Girotto Genocide Watch Legislators hold photographs of social leaders who have been killed as Colombia's congress opens its new session ahead of the inauguration of leftist President-elect Gustavo Petro, in Bogota, Colombia July 20, 2022. REUTERS/Nathalia Angarita/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights In 2024, the South American nation of Colombia saw an average of 16 community leaders killed each month, resulting in a total of 186 documented murders in 2024, or 23

By Feras Dalatey Residents gather in a street after Friday prayers to celebrate the arrest of Amjad Yousef, a key suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, in Tadamon, Syria, April 24, 2026. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi April 24 - Syria's Interior ​Ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, ‌one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288 civilians were killed. The ministry released footag

Commemorating the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Catholic University, Washington DC Saturday, April 25, 2:00 PM

April 2026 By Leonardo Monopoli Destruction of Kfar Kila as white phosphorus bombs are used to raze the town to the ground, 2024, Rabih Daher, Agence France Presse On March 2, 2026, the war between Israel and Hezbollah resumed following Hezbollah’s launch of hundreds of missiles into Northern Israel and after scores of Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement of 2024. Following the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982, Hezbollah was founded with Iranian funding. Hezbol

By Michał Jagielski Genocide Watch Migrants wait at the Polish-Belarusian border on November 18, 2021 in Grodno, Belarus. Thousands of people are trapped in freezing conditions at the Poland-Belarus border. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Poland is not unique in its selective humanitarianism. As the EU’s decision to restrict asylum rights for certain groups showed, the entire continent suffers from a neo-racist attitude towards migrants. However, Poland constit