DRC: M23 abuses miners, traffics gold and coltan to Rwanda
Amnesty International reports that Rwanda-backed M23 fighters abused artisanal miners in eastern DRC while facilitating the trafficking of gold and coltan into Rwanda.
German town bans memorials to Nazi victims
By Bethany Bell September 26, 2026 Credit : BBC There has been a wave of criticism in Germany after the town of Heidenau, near Dresden in Saxony, decided to ban "stumbling stone" memorials to victims of the Nazis. Germany's Education Minister Karin Prien told newspaper Bild that the ban was a "scandal". Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims
BBC News
Oct 2
Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Al Jazeera 29 Sep 2026 Picture by AJLabs Newly updated Google Maps satellite imagery shows the scale of destruction across the besieged Gaza Strip nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war. With neighbourhood after neighbourhood reduced to rubble and little left but the faint outlines of main roads, it is now almost impossible to tell one part of Gaza from another. Farmland has been charred, and centuries-old places of worship have been damaged or wiped from the landscap
Aljazeera
Oct 2
Special report: Gaza and the Ten Stages of Genocide
By Karolina Bonde, Genocide Watch October 2026 Palestinian woman in Gaza rubble credit:Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images Genocide is one of the most severe crimes in international law, defined as acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. This crime does not begin with mass graves. It begins with language, law, and the slow erasure of a people's humanity. Dr. Gregory Stanton maps that process in Ten
Genocide Watch
Oct 2
‘Stand on the right side of history’: Starbucks urged to close stores in China’s Xinjiang
By Rebecca Bailey October 2, 2026 US lawmakers say operating in region where Muslim minorities face mass detention is ‘morally bankrupt’ People walk past a Starbucks in Beijing, China. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters US lawmakers have urged Starbucks to close newly opened outlets in China’s Xinjiang, saying it was a “morally bankrupt decision” to operate in a region where Beijing has been accused of widespread human rights abuses against Muslim minorities. The coffeehouse ch
The Guardian
Oct 2
Israeli aid group opens clinic for children in Gaza
Israeli aid group opens medical clinic for 10,000 children in Gaza refugee camp The Times of Israel 25 August 2026 By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff Set to open September 1 in crowded Al-Mawasi, facility will provide vaccinations, consultations, rehab for children with disabilities, education services with anti-hate messaging A teacher educates children at the al-Mawasi camp in the Gaza Children's Village. (Courtesy) The Israeli humanitarian organization NATAN Worldwide Disaster R
