Pakistan Country Report - May 2026
By Alžběta Frommerova Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images Pakistan’s present-day human rights crisis stems from its colonial legacy, inherited at its 1947 independence. This legacy has hampered the growth of democratic institutions and led to autocratic rule, leaving the media fragile, politics volatile, and the military dominant. In this context, human‑rights abuses have deepened, especially for the most vulnerable groups. Women face the most severe consequences of P
Genocide Watch
May 8
Ethiopia Country Report
Country Report: Ethiopia April 2026 By Grace Harris Women and children queuing inside a humanitarian aid center in Tigray. (Photo: Forbes) Once again, fears of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea are on the rise, currently surrounding the contested issue of access to the Red Sea. Their fragile alliance in 2018, forged after decades of conflict, earned Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed a Nobel Peace Prize. However, relations soon broke down in the aftermath of conflict in Tigra
Genocide Watch
Apr 26
Serbia Will Produce Drones with Israeli Arms Giant
Serbia plans to produce drones with the Israeli arms giant Elbit Systems, BIRN/Haaretz can reveal, despite the firm’s high-profile involvement in Israeli military operations in Gaza. April 7, 2026 07:45 Hermes 900, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for tactical missions that Elbit sold to Serbia, was displayed at a military parade in Belgrade on October 20, 2025. Photo: BIRN/Sasa Dragojlo In early March, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the imminent openin
Trump threatens genocide: "a whole civilization will die"
Attacks on Iran increase and Israel tells Iranians to avoid train travel as deadline to reopen strait of Hormuz looms By Julian Borger, Dan Sabbagh in Jerusalem and Andrew Roth in Washington A reference to the anti-Trump No Kings protests is left on a building at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology that was damaged in an airstrike. Photograph: Majid-Asgaripour/Reuters Donald Trump has warned that Iran ’s “whole civilisation will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply wit
The Guardian
Apr 7
Al-Shabaab Launches Mortar Attacks Near Somalia’s Main Airport
Security officers patrol near the destroyed Hayat Hotel after a deadly 30-hour siege by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu on Aug. 21, 2022. Photo: Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP via Getty Images Al-Shabaab militants fired multiple mortar rounds near Mogadishu’s airport on Sunday morning, disrupting international flights to Somalia, a security official told AFP . The attack comes just weeks after a roadside bomb blast narrowly missed the convoy of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud , with A
Somali Army Takes Over Baidoa, Southwest Somalia
Civilians walk along a deserted street following clashes between Somalia's federal army and forces loyal to the Southwest state, home to international peacekeepers and humanitarian agencies, in an area affected by drought, conflict and displacement, in Baidoa, Somalia, March 30, 2026 [Reuters] By Al Jazeera Staff , Anadolu and Reuters Somalia’s national army has taken control of the biggest city in Southwest state, prompting the regional leader to resign two weeks after his
Al Jazeera
Mar 31
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
Eritrea Country Report: November 2025
By Grace Harris Members of Eritrea’s armed forces march past a reviewing stand where President Isaias Afwerki and numerous dignitaries and government officials were seated during the official 32nd Anniversary of Independence celebration at the Asmara Stadium on May 24, 2023, in Asmara, Eritrea. © 2024 Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images Eritrea Country Report 2025 By Grace Harris Eritrea was a colony of Italy from 1889 to 1942, annexed by Ethiopia in 1962. It formally gained in
Genocide Watch
Nov 10, 2025
El Salvador extends mass gang detentions until 2027
The country faces an extension on gang detentions amidst constitutional reforms which abolished presidential term limits earlier this...
The Tico Times
Aug 19, 2025
Bosnian Serb Entity Moves to Form Reservist Police Force
Bringing back an idea from 2019 and citing a lack of police officers, the Republika Srpska government voted in favour of law amendments...
Azem Kurtic
Jun 23, 2025
Organization in India: The fifth stage of genocide
V. Organization In part five of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series, we explain how the fifth stage of genocide, Organization , is occurring in India. To organize genocidal violence, perpetrators are often mobilized by the state. States either directly support or informally back militias as a means of organizing genocide. For instance, the Einsatzgruppen were created by the Nazis as paramilitary death squads in German-occupied territories. In India, militias like
Genocide Watch
May 16, 2025
Bosnia’s Serbs Ban Bosnian Courts After Dodik Conviction
After the Republika Srpska Assembly passed a set of laws challenging the authority of Bosnia's state-level institutions in the...
Azem Kurtic
Feb 28, 2025
