Remembering El Fasher
By Mohamed Zakaria October 26, 2026 The city I knew and the atrocities that changed it. We must preserve the record of what happened without letting it define the city I love. This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. To many people, the Sudanese city of El Fasher – where I was born, raised, and spent my professional working life – is now a place synonymous with hunger and death. For 500 devastating days beginning in May 2024 it was besieged by the Rapid Su
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The authoritarian future is already here in Uganda
The Authoritarian Future is Already Here in Uganda The New York Times Oct. 8, 2026 By Megan K. Stack Plainclothes thugs frog-marching a radio commentator from the microphone midbroadcast. An opposition activist dying after reportedly being barricaded in his house, which was then set on fire. Security forces raiding a powerful independent media company, cutting electricity and imposing a monthlong closure. General Kainerugaba inspecting a military parade at his father’s inaugu
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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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West Bank: attacks on Palestinians and foreign officials
By Al Jazeera Staff October 18, 2026 Settler pogroms have escalated, coinciding with the annual olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank. An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas grenade towards Palestinian olive pickers and orders them to leave the area during the olive harvest in Khirbet Abu Falah, the West Bank [File:Faiz Abu Rmeleh/Getty Images] European diplomats and officials were attacked on Saturday amid a surge in settler pogroms across the occupied West Bank in rec
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Oct 18
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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Oct 2
Amnesty International: Abolish ICE
In a new report, Amnesty International documented widespread human rights violations committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies during the Trump administration’s large-scale, militarized immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans and Washington, DC. The report, “We Had Whistles, They Had Guns”: Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Oper
Exile has not broken young Rohingya people
By Ajas Khan September 28, 2026 Rohingya in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks that forced them to flee their home in Rakhine State, Myanmar, 25 August. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Nine years ago, I was forced to flee my home in Maungdaw township, Rakhine state, Myanmar. I was 13 years old. I remember how quickly an average day turned into a day when life felt extinguished, leaving behind the place where I grew up with my family. Even now,
The Guardian
Sep 28
Human Rights Report Sheds Light On Recent Massacre In Haiti
By Dánica Coto September 17, 2026 People gather next to the bodies of people they said were their relatives and were killed in a gang attack in Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug.24, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A human rights group in Haiti has revealed new details about one of the country’s biggest massacres in recent years and unveiled security holes as authorities struggle to contain violent gangs. The National Human
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Sep 22
Human Trafficking as an Instrument of Genocide
Reconceptualizing Human Trafficking as an Instrument of Genocide, Part 2. By Renata Lampert NARA Record Group 75 Part 1 of this article established the doctrinal grounds for analyzing human trafficking under Article II of the Genocide Convention. This second part applies the conceptual framework by evaluating three case studies where trafficking was weaponized for group destruction. Child Transfers and Forced Assimilation: Ukraine Forced child transfer from Ukrainian to Russi
For Nigerian Christians, 9/11/2001 began an Islamist jihad
For Nigerian Christians, 9/11/2001 began an Islamist jihad Truth Nigeria September 11, 2026 Judd Saul brings aid to victims of Islamic terrorist attack. Photo by Masara Kim. By Mike Odeh James (Makurdi, Benue State) Twenty-five years after 19 hijackers killed 2,977 Americans in one morning, Nigeria’s Christians measure their September 11 not as a date but as a status quo. In 1998 Osama bin Laden signed a declaration of war against “Jews and Crusaders.” Crusaders meant Christi
Human Rights Watch condemns Iran executions
Iran’s Execution Campaign Against Protesters Human Rights Watch Sep 11, 2026 Day after day, Iranian authorities are sending protesters, including teenagers, who took part in widespread protests from December 2025-January 2026 to the gallows. Between March and August this year, a span of just five months, authorities arbitrarily executed at least 59 men on politically motivated and vague national security charges following grossly unfair trials. Those put to death include at l
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Sep 11
Human Trafficking as an Instrument of Genocide
Reconceptualizing Human Trafficking as an Instrument of Genocide, Part 1. By Renata Lampert United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra. International jurisprudence has treated human trafficking and genocide as distinct legal categories for decades. The former is litigated predominantly within the paradigm of transnational organized crime and socio-economic exploitation, under the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
