Securitization and Radicalization in France
Part Two: How Securitization Drives Radicalization By Vladimir Kovtun Genocide Watch The mother of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Algerian descent who died in 2023 after being shot by a policeman, on top of a van during a demonstration in Nanterre (France). Photo by Bertrand Guay (AFP) Introduction France has a well-resourced approach to combat radicalism through educating students to value France's republican values, French secularism, and laïcité (in layman’s terms, freed
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Israel prepares for military operations in the West Bank
By Abeer Salman, Kara Fox, Eugenia Yosef and Ibrahim Dahman July 24 2026 Smoke billows after settlers set fire to homes and businesses in the West Bank village of Faraata on Friday. *Obtained by CNN The Israeli military began preparations for a large-scale operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday after four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes there. The military said a group of settlers entered an area of the West Bank restricted to Israeli civil
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Jul 26
US designates Ecuador’s Chone Killers gang as terrorists
By AFP and Reuters July 2, 2026 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the gang had also been classified as a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’. Alleged members of the Chone Killers gang are presented to the media during a police operation in Duran, Ecuador [File: Marcos Pin/AFP] The US State Department has designated the Ecuadorean gang Chone Killers as a foreign “terrorist organisation”, imposing sanctions on a crime group that Washington has accused of carrying ou
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Jul 16
Trump administration sued over ICC sanctions
By Eric Tucker July 15 2026 A Palestinian child walks along a street surrounded by buildings destroyed in Israeli military strikes during the Israel-Hamas war in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP, photo by Abdel Kareem Hana) WASHINGTON (AP) — Two human rights groups say Trump administration sanctions imposed on the International Criminal Court over its investigations of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza have illegally impeded their ability to advocate for
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Jul 15
18 dead as gunmen attack Nigerian farming communities
By : Amarachi Okonkwo Date: 13 July 2026 11:50am WAT "Benue State Map" Credit: The Guardian (Nigeria) No fewer than 18 people have been killed in coordinated attacks by suspected gunmen on farming communities in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State, with several others injured and many residents forced to flee their homes. The attacks, which occurred between Friday and the early hours of Sunday, targeted Akpachi village in the Ugboju community and Otukpo-Nobi community
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Jul 13
UNAMA Statement on civilian casualties
UNAMA Press Release 29 June 2026 Credit: United Nations Kabul - UNAMA has confirmed that at least 28 civilians were killed and 49 injured in airstrikes carried out in Paktya, Paktika and Kunar provinces in Afghanistan on the evening of Sunday 28 June. Women and children are among the victims. These figures are preliminary and may increase as hospitals continue to treat the injured. Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting confirmed Pakistani security forces had con
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Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead in Poland
Copyright AP Photo 16 July 2026 Skrepetsky was known for his caricatures comparing Putin to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. A Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials said on Tuesday. "An investigation is being conducted...into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation...known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Lublin, Marcin Kozak, told journa
#EndTheSilence: Standing for Leah Sharibu in Nigeria
Graphic credit: The Roys Report #EndTheSilence: Standing for Leah Sharibu and Nigeria’s Missing Christian Women and Girls June 4, 2026 Eight years ago, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl disappeared into captivity because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. Today, Leah Sharibu remains missing—and the world must not forget her. On June 18, Christian Freedom International, Jubilee Campaign, and 21Wilberforce will join with advocates, faith leaders, members of the
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Nigeria Memo to UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom
Mourning the death of a family member after the attack in Jos on Palm Sunday, March 29, 2026 Credit: Samson Omale/Associated Press Memorandum on Nigeria to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion To: Ms. Nazila Ghanea, U.N. Special Rapporteur From: Genocide Watch, The Alliance Against Genocide Re: Input for the Special Rapporteur’s country visit to Nigeria Date: April 30, 2026 Jihadist massacres of Christians and moderate Muslims in Nigeria constitute Genocide. Mus
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Jun 3
Israel and Hamas in Gaza: Genocide is never justifiable
Genocide is Never Justifiable: Israel and Hamas in Gaza By Grace Condon and Frankie Condon Republished from post on February 4, 2024 This post was taken down by hackers. It was republished March 5, 2025. It is republished again June 2, 2026. The UN estimates there are 1.7 million displaced people in Gaza, many of whom have fled the fighting around Khan Younis. Source: Reuters The 7 October assault by Hamas on Israel enacted long-established genocidal intent by Hamas again
Israel's Twelve Tactics of Denial
Gaza destroyed credit: Bashaar TALEB/AFP via Getty Images Israel’s Twelve Tactics of Denial By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton and the Genocide Watch Taskforce on Gaza (first published May 2025, updated to June 2026) Introduction Israel was founded after the Holocaust as a nation-state where Jews could have a homeland and defend themselves. However, the territory granted to Israel was already occupied by Palestinians as well as Jews. UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of 29 Novem
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The UAE must be held responsible for the Sudan crisis
The UAE must be held responsible for its part in Sudan’s crisis Letter to the Editor The Guardian 17 May 2026 Dr Lutz Oette and Anna Snowdon respond to an article by Nesrine Malik in which she calls out the primary sponsors of the calamity Nesrine Malik’s article is timely, highlighting how evidence of the United Arab Emirates’ complicity in Sudan’s war has begun to prompt calls for action to be taken (The UAE tries hard to keep its reputation spotless. But with the war in Su
