Country report: Russia August 2026
By Alexander Smith A firefighter works at a site in a residential area damaged during a Russian missile strike amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine. September 21, 2023. Image: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko. Russia has a long history of documented persecution of ethnic minorities and societal dissidents. Imperial Russia organized anti-Jewish pogroms. According to the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium, the Soviet Union committed a genocide against Ukrainians dur
Genocide Watch
Aug 11
We're Entering a Terrifying New Era of Genocide.
Child in Gaza. Source: The International Rescue Committee I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era. The New York Times July 21, 2026 By Omer Bartov Dr. Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. How do genocides end? In most cases, there are two options. Either the perpetrators accomplish their goal, or a military force stops them, and accountability ensues. In 1904 the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly w
SUDAN: ALL TALK. NO ACTION. Handwringing and Empty Words
Joint Statement of G7 Foreign Ministers on El-Obeid (Sudan) 07/16/2026 03:24 PM EDT Office of the Spokesperson Joint Statement of G7 Foreign Ministers on El-Obeid (Sudan) © UNOCHA/Giles Clarke A woman who fled fighting in El Fasher, holds her daughter who was treated for malnutrition. "Obeid, Sudan must not become the next crime scene, warn UN investigators." July 16, 2026 The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America,
Genocide Watch
Jul 17
Urgent Threat of Genocidal Massacres in El Obeid, Sudan
Genocide Emergency July 2026 By Grace Harris The Sudanese city of El-Obeid, where a drone strike killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP. (Credit: Reuters/File) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency Alert for Sudan. The besieged city of El Obeid, Sudan is at immediate risk of genocidal massacres as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surround the city now held by the Sudan Armed Forces. El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, lies
Genocide Watch
Jul 15
THE CALL, TEDX TALK BY Dr. GREGORY STANTON, 2017
Dr. Gregory H Stanton The Call By Gregory Stanton TEDx Talk April 22, 2017 George Washington University Washington, DC The first time I saw Genocide was in Cambodia in 1980. Church World Service and CARE asked me and my wife, Mary Ellen, to go to Cambodia to set up a relief program. I had not sought the job. At first I didn't want to go. We wanted to start a family and thought that service in Cambodia would postpone our dream. Little did we know. But I made a fateful p
Genocide Watch
Jul 15
Qatar Addresses crisis in Sudan at UN Human Rights Council
July 3, 2026 By Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs At UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, July 03, 2026. Credit: Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs The State of Qatar has expressed deep concern over the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan, calling on all parties to the conflict to respect international law and engage in dialogue to reach a lasting peace. The remarks were given on Friday by HE Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Dr Hind Abdulrahman
Genocide Watch Gaza Report, July 2026
Palestinian woman protests the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes on Beit Hanun, northern Gaza credit: Mahmun Hams/AFP/Getty Images in The Guardian Gaza Report July 2026 By the Gaza Task Force In September 2025, a U.N. Commission Report concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts of genocide in the Genocide Convention. Yet Israel has continued its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 1.9 million people have been internally displaced as Israeli
Genocide Watch
Jul 13
Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder
Credit...Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder The New York Times July 11, 2026 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Last year, human rights experts warned for many months that a brutal militia was about to overrun a major Sudanese city, El Fasher, and massacre inhabitants. President Trump and other world leaders mostly shrugged. The militia went ahead and overran El Fasher, slaughtering some 60,000 people in a few weeks. Now the same m
Sexual Violence and Bodily Autonomy in Palestine
By Grace Harris and Franzie Schatzl Israeli soldiers standing guard in an alleyway in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Sexual and gender-based violence is pervasive in conflict today. Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) includes crimes such as rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, sterilization, forced marriage, and other acts of a similar nature perpetrated against people in a conflict-related setting.
Genocide Watch
Jul 2
Rohingya starvation is Myanmar's genocidal state policy
Rohingya Hunger as State Policy: Food Deprivation and the Question of Genocide
Yousuf Syed Khan
Jun 26
UK Foreign Office claims only a court can find "genocide."
Sudan Is The Genocide Which Dares Not Speak Its Name – with warnings ignored by the British Foreign Office – “The world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe” – but where are the protests against the perpetrators. My Call for Blue Helmets; an Arms Embargo Across Sudan; The Imposition of A No Fly Zone; And For War Lords To Face Justice. Jun 26, 2026 [Genocide Watch comments are highlighted in green.} Genocide Watch Report Genocidal RSF reach 500,000 people in El Obeid, Sudan Reb
Lord Alton of Liverpool
Jun 26
Genocidal RSF reach 500,000 people in El Obeid, Sudan
Men push a cart at the Adre border post between Sudan and Chad. AFP Sudan's RSF closes in on Al Obeid as UN warned of imminent atrocities Battle over city in North Kordofan region follows string of setbacks for Sudanese army in Darfur The National News June 21, 2026 By Hamza Hendawi Cairo: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is closing in on army-held Al Obeid, in the heavily contested North Kordofan region, with dozens of countries warning an attack on the city could
Genocide Watch
Jun 24
