Genocide Recognition

Genocide in Nigeria 2025: U.S. options to prevent it

Funeral for victims of a Boko Haram jihadist massacre credit: Al Jazeera Genocide in Nigeria 2025 By Greg Stanton, Founding President, Genocide Watch First published in 2024, updated to 2025 The Islamist genocide in Nigeria is now fifteen years old. Since 2012, Genocide Watch has issued Genocide Warnings for Nigeria because of Boko Haram, a terrorist group bent on genocide. It has been the deadliest genocidal group in the world, with at least 27,000 murders. Boko Haram h

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India Must Accept Responsibility for its 1984 Sikh Genocide

India Must Accept Responsibility for Its 1984 Sikh Genocide Time Magazine October 31, 2014 Members of the Sikh community hold aloft a banner calling for the 1984 storming of Sikhism's holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, by Indian troops, to be recognised as genocide as they join a demonstration in central London on June 8, 2014, to mark the 30th anniversary of the assault known as Operation Blue Star.LEON NEAL—AFP/Getty Images By Simran Jeet Singh 1984 remain

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7 days ago

The Call 2025 by Dr. Gregory Stanton

The Call 2025 By Gregory H. Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch Updated 2025 I probably have human rights in my family unconscious, if there is such a thing. I am a descendant of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a founder of the woman’s liberation movement, and of Henry Brewster Stanton, Vice President of the world anti-slavery movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s portrait hung over my great grandfather’s mantel in Johnstown, New York. I grew up in the home of Howard Stanton

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Dec 6

Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Has Not Stopped

Analysts and a human rights group say Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire. By Justin Salhani Relatives of Palestinians Israel killed in airstrikes mourn at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, 23 November 2025 [Mohammed Saber/EPA] On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire was supposed to have put an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. But two months on, Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 500 times, killing at least 356 Palestinians, and sending the

Al Jazeera

Dec 2

Forgive but Never Forget: Rwanda’s Reconciliation Villages

A Special Report by the Genocide Watch Great Lakes Task Force Heirs to both sides of Rwanda’s brutal history working side by side on a drainage ditch in Mbyo, part of a broader effort toward reconciliation. Credit Megan Specia/The New York Times Reconciliation is a complex, often contentious, yet necessary element of the post-genocide process. During an active genocide, the main priority is to bring an end to mass killings and extermination. Once a fragile peace is establishe

Genocide Watch

Nov 10

Colombia's Historic Apology for State-Led Extermination

By Josep Freixes - November 10, 2025 Gustavo Petro presided over the public ceremony in which the state apologized to the victims for the extermination of the left in the 1980s and 1990s. Credit: A.P. / Colombia One. In the city of Santa Marta, during the Fourth Summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union, the Colombian state on Sunday made public an act of acknowledgment and apology to the victims of the extensive proce

Colombia One

Nov 9