Female Genital Mutilation in Southeast Asia
South & Southeast Asia: The Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation By Juliana Girotto, Genocide Watch March 2026 Activists carry banners to commemorate International Women’s Day. Toto Santiko Budi/Shutterstock The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a call to action surrounding the medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Asia-Pacific region. FGM can be defined as “all procedures involving partial or total removal of the female extern
Genocide Watch
Mar 23
Special Report: Femicide in Afghanistan
By the Central Asia Task Force Genocide Watch An Afghan mother holds her daughter, staring at the light from behind her obscured window. Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell. The conditions facing women in Afghanistan today reflect a systematic, multilayered assault on their rights, dignity, and survival. The Taliban’s return to power has not only reversed 20 years of progress but has intensified gender-based persecution to levels amounting to femicide. From the collapse of leg
Genocide Watch
Mar 20
Kenya Country Report: October 2025
By Cooper Denison Demonstrators mark the first anniversary of deadly antigovernment protests in Nairobi on June 25, 2025 [Donwilson Odhiambo/Reuters] Kenya gained independence in 1963 following decades of oppressive British colonial rule. The 1952 Mau Mau Uprising, an armed anti-colonial rebellion led by members of the dispossessed Kikuyu ethnic group, was met with brutal violence under a lengthy state of emergency that lasted until 1960. Atrocities included imprisonment, t
Genocide Watch
Mar 18
Sudan Core Group calls for action to stop Sudan crimes
UN Fact Finding Mission report on El Fasher: Sudan Core Group foreign ministers’ statement The Foreign & Commonwealth Office's main building in Whitehall source: UK Foreign Office العربيَّة Statement from the foreign ministers of the Sudan Core Group on the UN Fact Finding Mission (FFM) report on El Fasher. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP Published 26 February 2026 Statement by foreign ministers of the Sudan Core Group at t
Genocide Watch
Mar 17
Genocide Emergency: Rojava and Northern Syria
Kurdish women braid their hair during a demonstration in Erbil in solidarity with Kurdish female fighters in Rojava (northeast Syria), January 23, 2026. © Safin Hamid / AFP Genocide Emergency: Rojava and Northern Syria January 2026 Rojava (the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria) is facing a coordinated campaign of annihilation. Following the collapse of the Assad Regime and Ahmed al-Sharaa's (Abu Mohammed al-Julani) rise to power, Damascus’s
Genocide Watch
Jan 27
“We Are Being Massacred”: Overlooked War Crimes in the DRC
“Tell everyone we are being massacred”: Overlooked war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo By Rawya Rageh 19 December 2025 Amnesty International In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), across a vast swathe of mountainous terrain, a conflict is raging that the world has forgotten. The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked armed group commonly called the ADF, are abducting and killing civilians with alarming frequency, and abusing women and gir
Amnesty International
Dec 19, 2025
Rights group accuses RSF of systematic sexual violence
By Faisal Ali Report finds paramilitary group responsible for vast majority of attacks as conflict devastates civilian population. The report documents systematic sexual violence against women in Sudan [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] A women’s rights organisation has documented nearly 1,300 cases of endemic sexual and gender-based violence across war-torn Sudan, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed for the overwhelming majority of attacks. The Strategic
Al Jazeera
Dec 12, 2025
Special Report: Death Penalty in Iran
The Iranian regime has been utilizing the death penalty to stifle all forms of social and political dissent. There has been a steady increase in the number of executions following the 2022 “Women, Life, Freedom” protests and the 2025 12-Day War with Israel. These tumultuous three years have created an environment in which the state is justifying its brutal actions against civilians by portraying ethnic minorities and outspoken individuals as security threats. Iran's national
Genocide Watch
Nov 14, 2025
The Erasure of the Private Sphere in Iran
By Franzie Schatzl and Jack Budlow Before attending a local production of Chekhov’s “Ivanov,” two women publicly share a cigarette — a habit once considered socially unacceptable. Across Iran, women continue to find small ways to assert individuality, resist, and stretch the boundaries of what authorities deem acceptable behaviour. Photograph: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times The erosion of the private sphere is a hallmark of totalitarianism. The demolition of individuality a
Genocide Watch
Nov 13, 2025
Togo: AFED intentisifes campaign against gender-based violence
An advocacy and exchange meeting on the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) was held on Wednesday, November 5, in Blitta-Gare, about 270 km north of Lomé, the Togolese capital. Organised by the Association of Empowered Women for Development (AFED) under its “Voix Essentielles” project, with financial support from Speak Up Africa, the meeting brought together local authorities, women from agricultural cooperatives, and market vendors from Blitta-Gare, Blitta-Village, Dou
APA News
Nov 8, 2025
Sudan Genocide Emergency: September 2025
By Omar Kausar and Grace Harris People displaced following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp shelter in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan on April 15, 2025. Stringer/Reuters Since April 2023, the Republic of Sudan (Sudan) has been engulfed in one of the deadliest civil wars of the 21st century . The civil war is between two opposing factions of the Sudanese Military: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the le
Genocide Watch
Oct 27, 2025
