Special Report: Central Asians in Russia. Migration, discrimination, and racism
By Kristie Moore Central Asian migrants working in Russia's construction sector. Image: Lantyukhov Sergey/globallookpress.com/picture alliance. Photo Russia is home to a significant population of migrants from Central Asia: according to a 2024 Human Rights Watch report, approximately 1,792,000 Uzbek, 1,231,000 Tajik, and 262,000 Kyrgyz migrants reside there. These migrants come primarily in search of work, usually in unskilled labor fields, such as construction, transportatio
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Mapping Attacks on LGBTQ Rights in U.S. State Legislatures
The ACLU is tracking 525 Anti-LGBTQ bills in the U.S. While not all of these bills will become law, they all cause harm for LGBTQ people. Map Tracker. Credit: ACLU About the Data: How state lawmakers are targeting LGBTQ Rights Overview In the last few years states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywher
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Special Alert: Genocide Extending into West Bank, U.N. Experts Warn
27 April 2026 By Karolina Bonde, Genocide Watch © UNICEF/Alaa Badarneh Members of a family flee Jenin due to an escalation of violence. On Friday March 7, 2026, a distinguished group of United Nations experts warned that the genocide in Gaza is extending into the West Bank, as violence and Israeli military operations escalate across the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The warning came amid growing alarm over conditions in Jerusalem and the wider West Bank, where th
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Ethiopia Country Report
Country Report: Ethiopia April 2026 By Grace Harris Women and children queuing inside a humanitarian aid center in Tigray. (Photo: Forbes) Once again, fears of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the rise, currently surrounding the contested issue of access to the Red Sea. Their fragile alliance in 2018, forged after decades of conflict, earned Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed a Nobel Peace Prize. However, relations soon broke down in the aftermath of conflict in Tigra
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Special Report: U.S. Policy in Iran - IRGC Takeover
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
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Special Report: Colombian Community Leaders at Risk
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
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Main Suspect in Syria's Tadamon Massacre Arrested
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
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Kwibuka 32: Catholic University, Washington DC April 25
Commemorating the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Catholic University, Washington DC Saturday, April 25, 2:00 PM
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Genocide Warning: Ecocide and Domicide in Southern Lebanon
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
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Special Report: Poland and Selective Humanitarianism
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
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UK unit tracking Israel breaches of international law closed after cuts
UK Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts The Guardian, Patrick Wintour and Sinéad Campbell, 23 April 2026 Destroyed buildings in Gaza. Photograph: NurPhoto EXCLUSIVE: OFFICIALS WARN DEPARTMENT WILL ALSO LOSE ACCESS TO DATABASE OF 26,000 VERIFIED INCIDENTS DUE TO CUTS The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts with
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Displacement and Danger: Somali refugees in Ethiopia
By Cooper Denison Sub-Saharan Africa Analyst Genocide Watch The Dollo Ado Encampment in southwestern Ethiopia, home to one of the largest refugee concentrations globally. Credit: UNICEF 2012 Ethiopia harbors one of the largest refugee concentrations in Africa, accommodating just under a million displaced people from across the continent’s eastern stretch. Somali refugees account for nearly one-third of this population—around 300,000 individuals. Despite the size and relative
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