How a Nation Reconciles After Genocide Killed Nearly a Million People
By Megan Specia MBYO, Rwanda — They awoke early and gathered along a plot of land here in this Rwandan village made up of a handful of...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
Genocide’s Legacy: Preserving Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland — To visit Auschwitz is to find an unfathomable but strangely familiar place. After so many photographs and movies,...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
Over 1,000 Police Officers Are Detained in Raids in Turkey
Officers suspected of supporting the American-based cleric Fethullah Gulen were escorted to the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey,...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
Indigenous peoples are ‘moral compass of humanity,’ special UN General Assembly meeting told
President Evo Morales Ayma of Bolivia, addresses the General Assembly high-level event to mark the tenth anniversary of the adoption of...
Genocide Watch
Apr 25, 2017
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History
By Elisabetta Povoledo PALERMO, Sicily — Sicily’s Jews were banished from this island in 1492, the victims of a Spanish edict that forced...
New York Times 1
Apr 24, 2017
Christians are the most widely targeted religious group in the world
When it comes to religious persecution, Christians are the most widely targeted community, said a new report released this week. But...
IRAQI CHRISTIANS ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT
Apr 23, 2017
They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya
By Andrew E. Kramer Ilya and Nohcho, gay men from Chechnya, sought refuge at a house outside the Caucasus region in southern Russia. Both...
New York Times 1
Apr 21, 2017
Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses, Calling It an Extremist Group
MOSCOW — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah’s Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Nikki Haley Presides Over Human Rights Discussion at U.N. Security Council
In a bid to show that the Trump administration cares about human rights around the world, its envoy to the United Nations, Nikki R....
New York Times 1
Apr 18, 2017
Why did 41 girls die at a Guatemalan youth shelter?
Accusations of abuse and neglect have come to light after a fire at a state-funded youth shelter killed 41 girls. On March 10, a funeral...
Al Jazeera
Apr 18, 2017
SPLC sues neo-Nazi leader who targeted Jewish woman in anti-Semitic harassment campaign
The Southern Poverty Law Center, along with its Montana co-counsel, filed suit in federal court today against the founder of a major...
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Apr 18, 2017
Haley: Anti-gay abuses in Chechnya ‘cannot be ignored’
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says America will not ignore reports that authorities in the Russian republic of...
The Hill
Apr 17, 2017
