$1.1 Million Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity Awarded to Rohingya Human Rights Defender Kyaw Hla
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative honors the esteemed lawyer for his personal sacrifice fighting injustice and advocating for the...
Hetq
Jun 10, 2018
SPLC: Racially incendiary Russian ads apparently had their intended effect
Facebook accounts with Russian ties not only sowed racial and cultural division, but their ads preceded spikes in hate crimes. One of the...
Hatewatch
Jun 8, 2018
Chechnya’s very long state of emergency Homosexuals as ‘terrorists’
By Arthur Clech April 24, 2018—Homosexuals in Chechnya are at greater risk than anywhere else in the Russian Federation, and face police...
Le Monde
Jun 7, 2018
Genocide over and over again: From the Armenians to the Syrians
The Syrian government, under dictator Bashar al-Assad, is waging a brutal war against its own citizens. 5/7/2018 - Innocent civilians...
Ellen J. Kennedy | MinnPost
May 17, 2018
US Holocaust Museum Expresses Deep Concern About Anti-Romani Violence and Antisemitism in Ukraine
Romani civilians in Asperg, Germany are rounded up for deportation by German authorities on 22 May 1940. (German Federal Archives)...
Genocide Watch
May 15, 2018
Russia to pitch first camp in Africa with military base in Somaliland
Russia is in talks with breakaway Somali region, Somaliland, to set up a naval base of at least 1500 men outside Zeila, a city near the...
Ismail Akwei | face2faceafrica.com
Apr 19, 2018
Russia: One year after ‘gay purge’ in Chechnya, still no justice for victims
April 4, 2018 The Russian authorities have abjectly failed to take effective action in response to the violent persecution of gay men in...
Amnesty International
Apr 19, 2018
Crisis Group raises Syria threat level to critical on its Trigger List early-warning platform
On the evening of 7 April 2018, the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma was subjected to an apparent chemical weapons attack. Military...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 19, 2018
How Crimean Muslims defy Moscow's pressure
Crimean Tatar leaders say they fear another pro-Russian crackdown on the persecuted Muslim community. Bakhchisaray, Ukraine (February 2,...
Al Jazeera
Apr 19, 2018
OPINION: ARMENIA: Same Streets, Same Demands, But Something's Different
On April 17, Serzh Sargsyan was elected Armenia’s prime minister in a parliament session under siege. Armored police officers stood...
Syuzanna Petrosyan and Maral Tavitian | CivilNet
Apr 18, 2018
How Syria Came to This
A story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering By Andrew Tabler Seven years of...
The Atlantic
Apr 15, 2018
Beatings, electric shock treatment and forced starvation for LGBT+ community in ‘secret' Chechny
April 4th, 2018 Severe beatings, electric shock treatment and forced starvation continue to be perpetrated against the LGBT+ community in...
Genocide Watch
Apr 12, 2018
