
Genocide Watch
- Oct 31, 2021
Genocide Emergency: The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Historically persecuted minorities are still target in the D.R.C. today.

Genocide Watch
- Oct 29, 2021
Country Report: Kazakhstan October 2021
Burn-out homes in the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan following a deadly pogrom against ethnic Dungans by Kazakh mobs in February 2020. Photo Credit: RFE/RL's Kazakh Service By Nat Hill Country Report: Kazakhstan October 2021 Kazakhstan is the homeland of the Kazakh, a traditionally nomadic Turkic ethnic group that adheres to Sunni Islam. Its land area of 2,724,900 square kilometres (1,052,100 sq. mi.) is the size of western Europe. Kazakhs make up 65% of Kazakhstan’s populatio

Barbara Labbate
- Oct 27, 2021
Genocide Watch: Panama
By: Barbara Labbate October 2021 Photo Credit: Erik Marciscano, La Estrella Panama's indigenous communities, which make up around 12% of its population, belong to seven main groups: Gunadule, Emberá, Wounaan, Ngäbe, Buglé, Naso Tjer Di, and Bri Bri. Panama has recognized 25 indigenous zones, known as comarcas, yet, only three can implement policy proposals without government oversight. Panama’s lack of investment and financial support for these communities has caused many peo

Allison Newey | Genocide Watch
- Oct 26, 2021
Genocide Watch: Poland
Poland Genocide Watch October 2021 Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Watch for Poland. Since 2015, the Polish government has consistently sponsored discriminatory legislation against gender minorities. The governing Law and Justice Party espouses a nationalist, xenophobic, homophobic political ideology. Thegovernment also perpetuates distortion and denial of Polish collaboration with the Holocaust. The dominant party, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice or PiS), has a

Max Bearak | The Washington Post
- Oct 25, 2021
Sudan’s Military Dissolves Government in Coup
Max Bearak | The Washington Post Monday, October 25, 2021, 3:50 a.m. EDT Sudan’s military detains prime minister and dissolves government in coup. Protesters march on 60th Street in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, on Oct. 25 to denounce the military's detentions of members of the government. (AFP/Getty Images) NAIROBI — Sudan’s military on Monday detained the prime minister, dissolved the government and declared a state of emergency, in what could be the end of a democratic transi

CNN
- Oct 25, 2021
Facebook Knew it was Used to Incite Violence in Ethiopia
It did little to stop the spread, documents show. By Eliza Mackintosh Mekelle, the regional capital of Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, seen through a broken window in the Ayder Referral Hospital in May. Facebook employees repeatedly sounded the alarm on the company's failure to curb the spread of posts inciting violence in "at risk" countries like Ethiopia, where a civil war has raged for the past year, internal documents seen by CNN show. The social media giant ranks Ethiopia

NPR
- Oct 25, 2021
Haiti gang leader threatens to kill 17 missionaries
October 22, 2021 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that police say is holding 17 members of a kidnapped missionary group is seen in a video released Thursday saying he will kill them if he doesn't get what he's demanding. The video posted on social media shows Wilson Joseph dressed in a blue suit, carrying a blue hat and wearing a large cross around his neck. "I swear by thunder that if I don't get what I'm asking for, I will put a bullet in the heads

Ted Goldberg | KQED
- Oct 25, 2021
Justice Sought for 1990 Liberian Massacre
Ted Goldberg | KQED September 25, 2021 SF Human Rights Group pushes Liberia to prosecute former military commander for 1990 massacre. Center for Justice and Accountability attorney Nushin Sarkarati with John T. Stewart, formerly of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia (center), and the CJA's Hassan Bility, at the Lutheran Church Palava Hut in Monrovia, Liberia. (Courtesy of the Center for Justice and Accountability) On the heels of what's being described as a hi

Al Jazeera
- Oct 23, 2021
HRW: Abuses of returning Syrian refugees
Rights group calls for a halt of all returns of Syrians and urges countries hosting refugees to take this position. Syrians carry their belongings as they cross back into Syria at the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Bab al-Hawa in Idlib [File: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters] By Kareem Chehayeb Published On 20 Oct 2021 Beirut, Lebanon – Continuing Syrian government human rights abuses mean refugees should not be returned, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says, urging host nations to immediat

UN News
- Oct 23, 2021
Four School children killed in northwest Syria
Four children – three boys and a girl - were killed on Monday morning while traveling to school in northwest Syria, along with a teacher, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. © UNICEF/Giovanni Diffidenti: Destruction in Idlib governorate 20 October 2021 UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ted Chaiban, said in a statement that they were victims of an attack on a market in Ariha, south of Idlib. The governorate is the last rebel held enc

The Guardian
- Oct 22, 2021
Myanmar: over 100 political prisoners re-arrested
Activists say issuing further charges to freed prisoners was ‘mental torture’ for families By Maung Moe and Rebecca Ratcliffe A released prisoner reunited with his family outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, earlier this week. Photograph: Myat Thu Kyaw/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock More than 100 political prisoners freed following a supposed amnesty in Myanmar were re-arrested shortly after their release according to a rights group, in what activists have likened to “mental

Ismael Lopez and Anthony Esposito | Reuters
- Oct 22, 2021
Nicaragua Crackdown Extends to Business Executives
Ismael Lopez and Anthony Esposito | Reuters October 21, 2021, 6:22 PM EDT As Nicaragua government crackdown continues, police arrest business executives. Nicaragua's Michael Healy, President of Superior Council of Private Companies (COSEP), speaks to the media after leaving the prosecutors office in Managua, Nicaragua October 21, 2021. Healy was arrested on October 21, 2021 according to local media, ahead of the country's presidential elections. REUTERS/Maynor Valenzuela MANA