GENOCIDE  WATCH

Funeral for victims of a Boko Haram jihadist massacre credit: Al Jazeera Genocide in Nigeria 2025 By Greg Stanton, Founding President, Genocide Watch First published in 2024, updated to 2025   The Islamist genocide in Nigeria is now fifteen years old. Since 2012, Genocide Watch has issued Genocide Warnings for Nigeria because of Boko Haram, a terrorist group bent on genocide.  It has been the deadliest genocidal group in the world, with at least 27,000 murders.  Boko Haram h

The Call 2025   By Gregory H. Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch Updated 2025   I probably have human rights in my family unconscious, if there is such a thing. I am a descendant of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a founder of the woman’s liberation movement, and of Henry Brewster Stanton, Vice President of the world anti-slavery movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s portrait hung over my great grandfather’s mantel in Johnstown, New York.   I grew up in the home of Howard Stanton

Dr. Stanton in front of the International Criminal Court, the Hague, October 28, 2025 The Calling of International Law Dr. Gregory H. Stanton Founding President, Genocide Watch   During my first year at Yale Law School, Church World Service called me to become Field Director of its relief program in Cambodia. My roommate from Oberlin College was then the organization’s program director in New York and he knew that I had been a Peace Corps Volunteer and had just spent a year i

Genocide Watch Annual Report 2025   Genocide Watch had the most productive year in its 26-year history in 2025. Genocide Watch is now a fully virtual organization, which allows us to have a worldwide staff at low cost. A former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch has said, "Genocide Watch gives the most bang for the buck of any human rights organization."    Personnel Genocide Watch has an all-volunteer staff of 35 persons . Genocide Watch has fifteen teams that meet wee

A boy sits at a camp for displaced people who fled from el-Fasher to Tawila, North Darfur, on October 27, 2025 [Mohammed Jamal/Reuters] The Genocide Working Group, a coalition of the 130 organization Alliance Against Genocide and the global International Religious Freedom Roundtable , has proposed a United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Sudan that: Demands an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the Sudan civil war; Demands unhindered access to food and medicine for a