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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Recognition of survivors of sexual violence remains uneven
By Rebecca Hawkins and Velma Saric October 2, 2026 Petrified Survivors, a sculpture by artist Rebecca Hawkins. Photo credit: Robert Schlesinger. A permanent monument would give them all the recognition they deserve. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), 12 days of activism for peace are celebrated every year, starting with the International Day of Peace on September 21, and ending with the International Day of Nonviolence on October 2. This time of year, we especially look back a
BalkanDiskurs
Oct 19
How Bolivian medicine viewed Indigenous people
Research into early 20th-century medical journals reveals how scientific racism shaped representations of the Andean population By: Caio Ruvenal Published: October 12, 2026 An Aymara Indigenous person photographed by French anthropologists in the early 20th century for an anthropological study. ARTHUR CHERVIN The coronavirus arrived in Bolivia amid uncertainty and panic that gave rise to racism. There are reports in which Indigenous people say they were denied medical care be
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Oct 16
Jamaica celebrates reparations case referral to appealS
By John Myers Jr. September 23, 2026 Jamaica says its reparations case against Britain has been referred to the United Kingdom’s highest court of appeal for the Caribbean island. Credit: Jess Hurd KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Jamaica’s government announced Wednesday that its reparations case against Britain has been referred to the United Kingdom’s highest court of appeal for the Caribbean island. The unprecedented legal maneuver marks a watershed moment in the fraught historical rel
ABC News
Oct 11
Forensic teams search a suspected mass grave from the Kosovo War
Kosovo policeman guards the site where forensic teams have begun excavations of a mass grave near the village of Kalluder, Wednesday, July 29 2026 (AP Photo/Florent Bajrami) 30 July 2026 KALLUDER, Kosovo (AP) — Authorities in Kosovo have begun excavations in a northern village after the discovery of human remains there that are believed to be of people missing since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war in what at the time was a Serbian province. Authorities say the site in Kalluder, in t
Zana Cimili | AP News
Jul 30
DRC Takes Rwanda to International Court of Justice
By Emery Makumeno June 26, 2026 The M23 rebels have captured huge tracts of DR Congo's east The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing its neighbour of breaching multiple international treaties. In a statement, DR Congo said Rwanda had dispatched forces and backed armed groups to carry out unlawful military operations on its territory following the 1994 Rwandan genocide. On Friday, Congolese Justice M
BBC News
Jul 29
31 years since Sri Lanka bombed church full of Tamil refugees
Jul 10, 2026 The 31st anniversary of the bombing of St Peter's Church in Navaly, Jaffna, was commemorated on Thursday evening, as relatives of those killed, members of the public and clergy paid tribute to the victims of one of the deadliest attacks on civilians of the entire armed conflict. The remembrance was held at St Peter's Church, where the parish priest led religious observances, after which relatives of the dead and members of the public laid flowers and lit candles
Tamil Guardian
Jul 14
Genocide Descendants Want N$17 Trillion
By Justicia Shipena June 21, 2026 Source: The Namibian Ovaherero and Nama genocide descendants are demanding N$17 trillion in reparations, rejecting the current Namibia-Germany negotiations as inadequate and exclusionary. The Okandjoze Chiefs Assembly for Genocide says the current negotiations between Namibia and Germany have failed to deliver justice. Reverend Ebson Kaapama, a member of the Maharero Royal Traditional Authority and technical committee member of the Okandjoze
The Namibian
Jun 21
NAMIBIA: Site Of The Forgotten Genocide Of The 20TH Century
By Hanno Hauenstein June 5, 2026 ‘A digital shield against historical denial’ … an 1897 photograph from Hatsamas, Namibia, matched with a 3D digital reconstruction. Photograph: Forensic Architecture/Forensis, 2025 Visiting the Namibian port town of Lüderitz in late 2024, I came across a small museum run by descendants of German settlers. Alongside imperial German flags and memorabilia, it displayed artefacts of the Herero tribe that had been recovered from nearby Shark Island
The Guardian
Jun 5
Dr. Stanton at Kwibuka 32 on 1994 Genocide against Tutsi
Gregory H. Stanton, Ph.D.: A Lifelong Voice for Justice, Genocide Prevention, and Global Accountability, speaks at Kwibuka 32 commemoration of Genocide Against the Tutsi The USA New Times May 3, 2026 By Jolie Teta Dr. Gregory Stanton speaks at the Kwibuka 32 commemoration of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsis in Rwanda, held at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, April 25, 2026 Washington DC – The global fight against genocide and crimes against humanity has
Genocide Watch
May 9
Kwibuka 32: Catholic University, Washington DC April 25
Commemorating the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Catholic University, Washington DC Saturday, April 25, 2:00 PM
Genocide Watch
Apr 25
Ex-Prisoners Mark 30 Years Since Closure of Bosnia’s Silos Concentration Camp
A commemoration was held at the site of the Silos detention camp in Tarcin, where Serbs and Croats were imprisoned, beaten, and abused during the war. Former inmates at the Silos camp. Photo: BIRN. Former detainees on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the closing of the notorious Silos detention camp at a commemoration at the site of the wartime camp in Tarcin, a village west of the capital Sarajevo. Around 500 Serb civilians were detained at the Silos camp at various ti
Lamija Grebo | BIRN
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