Country Report: Jamaica
By Tara Zanon November 13, 2026 Credit: CVM TV Jamaica Jamaica’s current violence stems from decades of political polarization and organized crime. Since gaining independence in 1962, clashes between the two dominant parties, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP), have fueled the rise of armed political supporters who disproportionally affect impoverished communities. Gangs controlled these “garrisons” as political proxies, intimidating voters a
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The ICJ's Erroneous Standard for Proof of Genocide
The International Court of Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands BEYOND ONLY INTENT By Dr. Gregory Stanton and the Genocide Watch Legal Team: Fitry Hamidah, Htet Htet Hliang, Anita Lesniak, Maximilian Millington, Emma Op het Veld, Tami Tasaki, Aymen Zehra, Natalie Kasper, and Omar Kausar November 13, 2026 Executive Summary The International Court of Justice has never held that a state has directly violated the Genocide Convention. The ICJ adopted an erroneous standard
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Special Report: Weaponizing Space Is an Emerging Threat of War, Genocide, and Mass Atrocities
By Natalie Kasper October 2026 Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks during the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, May 28, 2026, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., Matt Rourke//Pool AP via AP The increasing weaponization of outer space is creating a new and poorly understood pathway to mass atrocity. For decades, governments have used satellites for communication, navigation, weather monitori
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Israel's imposition of measures intended to prevent births in Gaza
By Maximilian Millington Genocide Watch November 7, 2026 Al Basma IVF Center was struck by an Israeli shell in 2024. Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters Legal framework Under Article II (d) of the Genocide Convention “genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: […] imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”. For this act of genocide, the evidentiary t
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Nov 6
Armenian Genocide denial in Turkey & Azerbaijan continues
Special Report, November 2026 By Taiga Sarli MERIP. The Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Collective Memory. Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) The Armenian Genocide was the persecution and partial destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. From 1915 to 1916, Armenians, a mostly Christian ethnic group, were discriminated against, persecuted, and oppressed before the genocide began. During the rule of the Committee of Union an
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Nov 5
U.S. Voting Rights Threatened
Special Report, October 2026 By Genocide Watch Photo Credit: Voter casts a ballot, PBS NEWS © 1996 - 2026 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved. Genocide Watch writes to alert readers about escalating systemic threats in the United States (US) against voting rights regarding the 2026 Midterm Elections. In combination with growing judicial and extrajudicial repression and violence against immigrants, trans people (particularly trans women), and, indeed, all women in th
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Oct 21
Letter from Human Rights Advocates for Shahriar Kabir
Shahriar Kabir credit: The Telegraph Picture An Open Letter in Defense of Historical Memory, Freedom of Expression, and Shahriar Kabir Issued jointly by Genocide Watch (United States), Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, together with Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (Canada), European Bangladesh Forum (UK and EU), International Crimes Strategy Forum (United Kingdom), South Asian Democratic Forum (Belgium), NEVER AGAIN Association (Poland), Greek Helsinki
Special Report: Discrimination Against Roma in the Yugoslavia Successor States
By Senan Monks October 19, 2026 UN Refugee Camp in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo, where hundreds of Roma people were affected by lead poisoning. Image by European Roma Rights Centre Roma are an ethnic group believed to have first arrived in the lands of the former Yugoslavia in the late medieval period. Roma communities in the Yugoslavia successor states are not homogeneous and come from a variety of cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions. However, they all face comparab
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Oct 19
Canada report: US intelligence role in resettling Nazis after WWII
By ALEX CARSON 11 OCTOBER, 2026 In early September, the Federal Court sided with B'nai Brith, ordering the government to remove almost all redactions from the 618-page report pursuant to the Access to Information Act. Corporal Urban Mayo from Ontario, Canada, watches the warning under the double swastikas on the border of German in the Canadian sector of the Western Front a few months before the end of World War II, February 14, 1945. (photo credit: PLANET NEWS LTD/AFP via Ge
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Oct 15
Malawi Country Report October 2026
By Elinn Ikhlef October 14, 2026 Malawi remains a relatively stable multiparty democracy in Southern Africa and has not experienced the large-scale ethnic violence seen in several neighboring states. However, persistent human rights concerns continue to affect vulnerable populations, particularly refugees, persons with albinism, 2SLGBTQI+ individuals, and those accused of witchcraft. Several indicators associated with the early stages of genocide warrant monitoring. Since ga
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Oct 14
Person shot during encounter with ICE agents in NYC
By John Miller, Julianna Bragg and Mark Morales 08 October 2026 Members of law enforcement gather at the scene after a shooting reportedly involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Bronx borough of New York, October 8. David Dee Delgado/Reuters A man was shot during an encounter with federal immigration agents in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon, according to the New York Police Department. Just after 4 p.m., agents with ICE’s Enforcement and Remov
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Oct 7
Special report: Gaza and the Ten Stages of Genocide
By Karolina Bonde, Genocide Watch October 2026 Palestinian woman in Gaza rubble credit:Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images Genocide is one of the most severe crimes in international law, defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This crime does not begin with mass graves. It begins with language, law, and the slow erasure of a people's humanity. Dr. Gregory Stanton maps that process in Ten
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