Belarus Country Report: November 2025
By Juliana Girotto Image: Lev Karavanov/Mostphotos Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for Belarus. Five years since mass protests swept Belarus in 2020, the Lukashenko government has deepened its repression and involvement in human rights violations. Belarusians are denied the ability to exercise basic rights, including freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. In the February 2024 parliamentary elections and the January 2025 presidential election,
Genocide Watch
Mar 23
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
Russia dubs Narva, Estonia a 'people's republic'
Masked Russian "Little Green Men" in Narva, Estonia Copyright AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file Euronews March 19, 2026 By Johanna Urbancik & Franziska Müller A pro-Russian online campaign is casting the Estonian city of Narva as a "people's republic", spreading propaganda and at times calling for violence and sabotage. A flag, a coat of arms, freshly drawn borders – and rhetoric that echoes the playbook of the so-called "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine and Russian-occupied
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
Special Report: The Balochistan Conflict in Pakistan
By Michał Jagielski Senior Iran and Central Asia Team Leader Genocide Watch The conflict between the state of Pakistan and Balochistan has been ongoing since the 1940s. Its nature and intensity have changed throughout the years, as both sides adapt and respond to global and regional developments. However, the immense suffering of the civilian population has been consistent. Even during relatively calm years, the Balochs’ livelihoods were made worse by state initiatives design
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Mar 17
Kosovo postpones controversial foreign visitor law
The law would have hit Serb nationals as well as ethnic Serbs in Kosovo, benefiting from their services Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti. (Photo by Erkin Keci/Anadolu via Getty Images) By AFP Published March 14, 2026 Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti on Saturday said that the government is postponing for 12 months the enforcement of new entry regulations for foreigners, avoiding political fallout with ethnic Serbs. The so-called Law on Foreigners stipulated that all foreign
To Bangladesh Prime Minister concerning Shahriar Kabir
Shahriar Kabir. Source: Wikipedia 12 March 2026 His Excellency Tarique Rahman Prime Minister of Bangladesh Office of the Prime Minister Old Sangsad Bhaban Tejgaon, Dhaka-1215 Bangladesh Email: info@pmo.gov.bd pm@pmo.gov.bd ps1topm@pmo.gov.bd Your Excellency, We recognise and appreciate the steps taken by the Government of Bangladesh to restore stability and to strengthen democracy and the rule of law during this important period for the country. Urgent concern regarding the
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Mar 13
Israel and Hezbollah Exchange Strikes in Lebanon
Israel strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon after Iran-allied group launches missiles over the border - Conflict spreads to Lebanon as Hezbollah targets Israel over killing of Khamenei and IDF responds with strikes on Beirut William Christou, The Guardian, 2 March 2026 Israel fires on Lebanese capital Beirut Israel carried out heavy airstrikes on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, after the Iran-backed group launched missiles and drones towards Israel in r
The Guardian
Mar 2
'It's Not A War Crime If It Was Fun.' : Russian General
Radio Free Europe February 20th, 2026 Major General Roman Demurchiev has served as commander of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, fighting in Ukraine. On October 18, 2022, roughly eight months after Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine, a high-ranking Russian officer texted several messages to his wife and several acquaintances back home in Russia. The officer, then-Colonel Roman Demurchiev, commander of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, bragged about how his so
Genocide Watch
Feb 23
France Grants Safe Haven To Anti-Kremlin Couple Detained By ICE
Tens of thousands of Russians have applied for political asylum in the United States since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Many detainees have been subjected to arbitrary detention (Michael M. Santiago) France has granted safe haven to an anti-Kremlin Russian activist couple detained by ICE in the United States, but his wife was nowhere to be found after he landed in Paris on Monday. After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them being deported to Russi
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Feb 16
China Events of 2025
World Report 2026 Published Jan. of 2026 Chinese authorities systematically deny the rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, and religion, and persecute government critics. Tightened Chinese Communist Party (“Party”) ideological control has been accompanied by harsh forced assimilation of Tibetans and Uyghurs and by imposition of a repressive national security regime in Hong Kong. There has been no accountability for crimes against humanity in Xinjiang where s
Human Rights Watch
Feb 16
Malaysia Events of 2025
World Report 2026 Published Jan. of 2026 Despite some reforms, Malaysia continues to wield repressive laws to criminalize dissent, censor critical speech, and harass human rights defenders. Refugees and migrants face indefinite detention in overcrowded, unhygienic conditions. In 2025, Malaysia assumed the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Freedom of Expression, Assembly, and Religion On February 12, police arrested Sevan Dorsaisamy, executi
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Feb 16
