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
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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
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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
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Is Guatemala's Mayan Genocide Continuing Today?
Maya Ixil women lead thousands of people marching for democracy in Guatemala City. Sandra Cuffe Source: Truthout Guatemala´s Indigenous Mayan Communities: Displacement, Cultural Destruction, and the Question of Genocide By Laura Rodriguez Martin, Genocide Watch, June 2026 For over four decades, Guatemala´s Mayan Indigenous communities have been displaced from their ancestral lands, first through massacre and scorched-earth warfare, and more recently through mining concessions
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Country Report: Romania July 2026
The deportation of Iasi pogrom survivors by Romania's Antonescu Regime in 1941, and the disposal of those who died en route. Credit: Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln Genocide Watch Country Report: Romania 2026 By Vladimir Kovtun In September 1940, General Ion Antonescu became Prime Minister of Romania, with the support of the fascist Iron Guard movement. Antonescu’s Government from 1940 until 1944 was allied to the Third Reich and directly participated in the Shoah. The Ant
Psychological Toll as Israel Erases Lebanese Villages
By Justin Salhani Displaced Lebanese face a void as war annihilates the physical and emotional anchors of their past and identity. Civilians stand outside their homes destroyed in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, in February 2025 [Raghed Waked/Al Jazeera] Beirut, Lebanon – In February 2025, Ali stood outside his house in Naqoura, in southern Lebanon, and pointed at the crack in the foundation and fruit trees pulled up by the Israeli military. The Israeli military had recently withd
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Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top Two Million
Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022. A funeral for a Ukrainian soldier in Kyiv last year. Ukrainian forces have suffered 525,000 to 625,000 casualties, the study said. Nicole Tung for the New York Times July 1st 2026 More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia has been waging war against its neighbor, according to a new study, a bleak mil
Rohingya starvation is Myanmar's genocidal state policy
Rohingya Hunger as State Policy: Food Deprivation and the Question of Genocide
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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
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Taliban Ban Hazara Mourning Rites in Herat, Afghanistan
By Farhaad June 24, 2026 Mourners walk through a street decorated with religious flags and banners during Muharram observances in Herat. (Photo credit: 8am.media) Local sources in Herat say that the Taliban have not permitted the observance of Tasu’a and Ashura ceremonies in the province, including street processions, chest-beating rituals, and the carrying of religious standards, and have imposed extensive restrictions on mourners. Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Wedn
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Two women killed in peaceful protest in Afghanistan
By Flora Drury & BBC Afghan A woman on the streets of Herat on Monday - a day before the protest Taliban police used live fire to disperse a rare protest against the detention of women accused of violating strict Islamic dress codes in the western Afghan city of Herat, witnesses and protesters said. Medics told the BBC two people died, but did not specify how. A number of others at the protest were injured. Both men and women had taken to the streets days after local Taliban
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Genocide Watch Manual on Genocide and Genocide Prevention
Genocide Watch wrote a Training Manual on Genocide and Genocide Prevention for the Pan African Lawyers' Union that was used to train over 100 African lawyers in a Workshop held in Arusha,Tanzania in March 2025. The Training Manual was written by the Genocide Watch Legal Team, including Dr. Gregory Stanton, Sanaea Suntok, Brenda Salazar, Emily Mullin, Finia Hilmes, Areeka Khan, Subash Jai Devarage, and Omar Kausar. Members of the Genocide Watch Legal Team have since continue
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