Closure in families as Residential Girls are reburied
Peace and closure among families as girls who died at residential school are reburied Natalie Pressman July 23, 2026 Alice and Rosanna Drygeese will be buried in Yellowknife, N.W.T., next to their father Mary Jane Drygeese and her great-granddaughter. Drygeese's two sisters are coming home to Yellowknife decades after they died at residential school in Fort Resolution. (Submitted by Berna Ross) In some of his final words, Berna Ross’s grandfather spoke of how nice it would be
CBS News
Aug 29
Raid on cattle camp kills at least 49 in South Sudan
By AFP April 6, 2026 Thirty-three people were also wounded as gunmen raided village and seasonal cattle camp in northwest of the country. Sudanese refugees wait for their turn to get drinking water from a muddy pond in Gerbana, a village 22km (14 miles) from the Sudanese border, South Sudan [File: Diego Menjibar/EPA] An armed raid on a seasonal cattle camp and village in the northwest of South Sudan has killed least 49 people, according to local officials. The raid, which als
Al Jazeera
Aug 28
USCIRF on Religious Freedom Violations In India
India Must Be Held Accountable for Religious Freedom Violations
USCIRF
Aug 27
US removes Syria from list of state sponsors of terrorism
By Tom Bateman , State department correspondent and Helen Livingstone August 25, 2026 US President Donald Trump welcomed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa to the White House last year (Source: AP) The US has removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after 47 years, lifting what it said was the "final major barriers" for private sector investment in the country and its reintegration into the global economy. US Secretary Of State Marco Rubio said the move
BBC News
Aug 27
Tribe alleges US agents 'trespassed' on indigenous land
By Umar Farooq August 26, 2026 The Tohono O’odham people have sued the US government to stop construction of a border wall through their reservation. The Tohono O'odham Nation, an Indigenous tribe along the US-Mexico border, has warned that construction along the border could harm sacred sites and natural resources [File: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters] An Indigenous tribe located between the United States and Mexico has accused US federal agents and construction workers of illeg
Al Jazeera
Aug 27
Pansak cites billion-dollar toll from Thai-Cambodia conflict
An analysis shared by Pansak Vinyaratn says the return of about 900,000 Cambodian workers exposes the two economies’ deep dependence. Veteran Thai policy adviser Pansak Vinyaratn Thailand and Cambodia are paying a mounting economic and humanitarian price for their border conflict, with the mass return of Cambodian workers exposing how deeply the two neighbouring economies depend on each other, according to a third-party analysis shared by veteran Thai policy adviser Pansak Vi
The Nation
Aug 25
Nigeria search for kidnapped mosque worshippers
With elections set for January, President Tinubu seeks to clamp down on kidnapping trend in northern Nigeria.
Al Jazeera
Aug 25
Why Nigeria Needs More Than a Bigger Army
Without accompanying reforms, the risk is that President Tinubu’s plan only makes Nigeria’s army bigger but not better.
Chatham House
Aug 25
Denial in India: The Tenth Stage of Genocide
In this final part of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series, we explain how Denial enables and continues
Genocide Watch
Aug 25
Amnesty: Argentina’s AI Surveillance is Social Control
Amnesty International decries Argentina’s expanding AI surveillance as tool of social control Tiana Nowzari | Lincoln Alexander School of Law, CA August 21, 2026 Neslihan_Turan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Argentina of building techno-authoritarian surveillance infrastructure without adequate legal safeguards, as the government’s newly created AI security unit expands state monitoring powers over citizens’ online communications and ph
Jurist News
Aug 25
Tajikistan and the Weaponization of Trauma Narratives
By: Genocide Watch A protest in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe before the country's civil war. (Source: RFE/RL) Located in Central Asia, Tajikistan continues to navigate the aftermath of Civil War (1992-1997), which resulted in the loss and displacement of thousands of civilians. The Civil War’s widespread devastation, along with other internal issues (poverty, economic stagnation, internal division, and longstanding corruption), continues to plague the State today—particularl
Genocide Watch
Aug 24
Country Report: The Gambia August 2026
An anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) protester outside the National Assembly in Banjul.
Genocide Watch
Aug 24
