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
The Guardian
Apr 22
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
Genocide Watch
Apr 21
Special Report: U.S. Kurdish Policy in Syria
By Michał Jagielski Senior Middle East and Iran Analyst Genocide Watch Syrian Kurds protesting outside a U.S.-led international coalition base near the Turkish border in Syria. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images A decade after the establishment of CJTF-OIR, it appears that the alliance between the U.S. and the SDF is at an end. Initially, the Kurdish-led forces were the most reliable ally for Washington’s multilayered Syrian policy aimed at countering ISIS and the gr
Genocide Watch
Apr 21
Human Rights Campaign targets Congress on LGBTQ+ rights
An LGBTQ+ rights supporter holds a flag in the hallway outside an Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By MATT BROWN Updated 1:55 AM HST, April 21, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Human Rights Campaign, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, is vaulting into the midterms with a $15 million investment targeting Republicans in battleground districts after a series of
AP News
Apr 21
Italian Lawyers Could Win Indemnities If Immigration Clients Go Home
Italian lawyers could win ‘wild west-style bounties’ if immigration clients go home The Guardian, Angela Giuffrida, 19 April 2026 Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Saturday. The Italian prime minister is trying to clamp down on irregular immigration. Photograph: Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse/ GIORGIA MELONI'S FAR-RIGHT GOVERNMENT TO ASK MPs TO BACK CONTROVERSIAL VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION SCHEME Italian lawyers will be paid bonuses if they successfully convince their immigrant clients to ret
The Guardian
Apr 18
Sudanese war and genocide enters fourth year
Sudan enters fourth year of war as officials lament an 'abandoned crisis' The Washington Post April 16, 2026 By Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick | AP Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres in what the United Nations calls an “abandoned crisis.” Patient Saidal Altaher, aged two months, receives treatment for malnutrition at the paediatric hospital stabilization center in Port Sudan, Sudan, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) PORT SUDA
Sudan is Not in a Civil War. It is in a Double Genocide.
A Sudanese woman who fled El Fashir (Str/AFP via Getty Images) I Have Watched the Catastrophe of My Country Be Reduced to Nothing New York Times April 15, 2026 By Mohammed Ahmed Mr. Ahmed is a Sudanese writer based in Seoul. The word “home” held two meanings in my life. One was the physical space of my childhood in Sudan: the textured walls of my room, the scent of my mother’s cooking, the squeak of ceiling fans pushing back against the endless summer heat. The other was an u
Why the Israeli and US War in Iran is "Not Europe's War"
An Iranian flag is placed among the ruins of a police station destroyed during the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tehran on March 3. (Vahid Salemi/The Associated Press) Why the Israeli and US War in Iran and Lebanon is “Not Europe’s War” April 17, 2026 By Jeanne Macé and Alžběta Frommerová Since the launch of the Israel and US war against Iran on February 28, 2026, European countries have been exposed to the consequences of a conflict they neither initiated nor sought to
Genocide Watch
Apr 17
Doctors Without Borders: Rape is a weapon of war in Sudan
A temporary clinic in Tawila for people fleeing conflict in Darfur. "There is mounting evidence that rape is being deliberately and systematically used as a weapon of war," says UN Women. © UNFPA Rape is used as a weapon in Sudan's war, doctors group says The Washington Post March 31, 2026 By Evelyne Musambi and Samy Magdy | AP The aid group Doctors Without Border says that sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s fierce conflict b
Israeli settlers block Palestinian kids’ path to school
Palestinian students walk to school using an alternative route that is nearly twice as long because a fence separates their village from the nearby Israeli settlement of Carmel, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, Tuesday, April 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Associated Press April 15, 2026 By SAM METZ and JALAL BWAITEL RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hajar and Rashid Hathaleen have always walked to school from their neighborhood on the outskirts of Umm al-Khair. But
Associated Press
Apr 15
Israel's Death Penalty Violates Israel's Basic Law
Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, the national security minister, and other Israeli hard-liners had campaigned on a promise to execute Palestinian militants.Credit ...Erik Marmor/Getty Images Genocide Emergency Alert: Israel’s Death Penalty Law Violates International Law and Israel’s Basic Law Israel has executed only two convicted criminals since 1948. The first was Meir Tobianski, executed in 1948 for treason, who was posthumously exonerated. The second was Adolf Eichmann, execute
Genocide Watch
Apr 15
