Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to name a military unit after a World War II-era militia infamous for massacring Poles and Jews has led to a sharp spike in tensions between Kyiv and Warsaw. June 7, 2026 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) attends the reburial ceremony of Andriy Melnyk, who died in 1964 and was the leader of a branch of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), along with his wife Sofia, at the National Military Memorial Cemet

By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, Founding President, Genocide Watch, Chair, The Alliance Against Genocide This speech was presented on May 15, 2026 by Dr. Gregory Stanton to a Conference on the Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia in the Kennedy Conference Room, The Russell Office Building, US Senate, Washington, DC The Challenge of Ethiopian Constitutionalism Keynote Speech by Dr. Gregory H. Stanton Conference on the Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia Kennedy Conference Room, US Senate,

EXPLANATION OF THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE MAP ​ This map shows the stages of genocide in 2025 in nations monitored by Genocide Watch. On the Genocide Watch website, this map can be found at: https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages ​ The shading of each country reflects its current Genocide Alert level as of May 2025. Genocide Watch defines three alert levels: ​ Genocide Watch – (yellow) classification, symbolization, discrimination Genocide Warning – (orange) dehumanization,

Genocide Watch wrote a Training Manual on Genocide and Genocide Prevention for the Pan African Lawyers' Union that was used to train over 100 African lawyers in a Workshop held in Arusha,Tanzania in March 2025. The Training Manual was written by the Genocide Watch Legal Team, including Dr. Gregory Stanton, Sanaea Suntok, Brenda Salazar, Emily Mullin, Finia Hilmes, Areeka Khan, Subash Jai Devarage, and Omar Kausar. Members of the Genocide Watch Legal Team have since continue

June 4th 2026 Russia launched a major bombardment of cities across Ukraine early on June 2, leaving over one hundred civilians dead or wounded. The attack, which focused primarily on Kyiv and Dnipro, was the most recent in a series of deadly overnight bombing raids beginning in early May that have signaled a new phase in Kremlin efforts to target Ukraine’s civilian population amid mounting indications that Russia’s invasion is stalling on the battlefield. The latest Russian a

Women say they were raped and ransomed by RSF fighters in Sudan’s ongoing war Associated Press June 2, 2026 Sudanese women survivors of RSF mass rapes. Source: Manara Magazine By SAM MEDNICK KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Naked, hungry, raped and lying in her own urine, the woman said her captors after two days of misery handed her a phone. Call your friends and family, they said. Tell them to buy your freedom or you’ll be killed. The 38-year-old said she screamed on the calls as ho

President Donald Trump…credit: Fulton County Sheriff’s Department Mass deportations violate U.S. and international law. They’re also crimes against humanity. By Dr. Gregory H Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch President Trump’s order to arrest and deport millions of undocumented immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of refugees, violates US obligations under the 1967 Protocol on the Status of Refugees. The US Senate ratified that treaty unanimously in 1968. 147

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

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

A wounded girl in Nasser hospital, Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli forces allegedly opened fire on Palestinians gathering to receive supplies in Rafah. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Genocide Emergency The Israel Defense Force Is Murdering Civilians Seeking Food in Gaza July 1, 2025, republished June 2, 2026 Since 27 May 2025, the Israel Defense Force has killed over 410 Palestinians who were seeking food at distribution sites organized by Israel and the USA. These were n

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

By Michał Jagielski Senior Middle East and Iran Analyst Genocide Watch Syrian Kurds protesting outside a U.S.-led international coalition base near the Turkish border in Syria. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty Images A decade after the establishment of CJTF-OIR, it appears that the alliance between the U.S. and the SDF is at an end. Initially, the Kurdish-led forces were the most reliable ally for Washington’s multilayered Syrian policy aimed at countering ISIS and the gr

The Human Rights Implications of Afghan Deportations by Pakistan and Iran By Juliana Girotto Afghans pictured on 1 November at the Chaman camp on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, on their enforced journey back to their homeland. Photograph: Habibullah Achakzai/AP The mass deportation of Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan in 2025 has created a significant human rights crisis, raising concerns about violations of international protection standards and the safety of people r

Antisemitism in Romania today is visible in far-right demonstrations, extremist political movements, and hostile rhetoric in parts of the media. May 21, 2026 Diana Iovanovici-Sosoaca, European Parliament member and far-right Romanian politician, holds religious icons as she speaks to the media, before a vote to choose the next European Commission president, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, July 2024. (photo credit: JOHANNA GERON/REUTERS) Bucharest – On April

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said.

© Anadolu via Getty Images 13 May 2026 Amnesty International and Human Rights First today published a joint letter to Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, urging an end to the Polish government’s cooperation with the US administration’s unlawful mass deportations of immigrant communities. According to information gathered by Amnesty International and Human Rights First, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed through Polish airports and travell

18 May 2026, UN News © Adobe Stock/Michel Angelo Oprandi A barrier separates Israel from the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has reduced the scale of violence in the Gaza Strip but killings and destruction continue, while forced displacement in the occupied West Bank has reached a rate “unseen in decades”, a senior official with the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Monday in Geneva. Ajith Sunghay, Head of UN Human Rights in the Occ

By Sondos Asem May 18, 2026 Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich takes part in the annual Jerusalem Day march in the Old City of Jerusalem, 14 May 2026 (Reuters/Ammar Awad) The office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court last month filed a secret arrest warrant application for Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, sources briefed on the matte

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

The UAE tries to keep its reputation. But with the war in Sudan, how can it? The Guardian 13 May 2026 Nesrine Malik Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist Outrage is mounting about the Gulf country’s complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts. There are certain states whose reputations in the global community are tainted. For habitual violations of international law, they are shunned, boycotted or slammed with economic sa

Gunmen stormed a primary and junior secondary school in Mussa, while coordinated assaults on nearby Christian communities left eight people dead. By Luka Binniyat & Sulieman Ayuba Armed insurgents abducted 40 schoolchildren — including children under the age of five — during a Friday morning raid on Mussa town in Askira/Uba County, local officials told TruthNigeria. The attack came just hours after coordinated assaults on nearby Christian communities left eight people dead. T

South Africans protest poor service delivery. Protests led to xenophobic violence. Source: Vatican News FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER RISING XENOPHOBIC MOBILISATION The FW de Klerk Foundation expresses its concern at the recent escalation of anti-immigrant mobilisation in parts of South Africa, including reports of intimidation, business closures, harassment of foreign nationals and calls for a nationwide shutdown demanding the removal of all foreign nationals

Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims rest at a campsite in Lalibela in the Amhara region, two months after the Ethiopian military regained control of the town from Fano militia, January 7, 2024. ©2024 Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images Why the Human Rights Crisis in Ethiopia Matters Public Conference, Kennedy Caucus Room, Russell US Senate Office Building, Capitol Hill. May 15, 2026, 9:00 AM Eastern Time. Washington, D.C. – This conference in English is open to anyone interested i

In part nine of our Ten Stages of Genocide in India Series, we explain how the ninth stage/process of genocide, Extermination, is occurring in India. A policeman looks on as a row of shops burns in Ahmedabad during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Credit: AFP India has a history of genocides, including between 200,000 and two million killings during Partition in 1947. At this stage, the killing legally defined as genocide occurs. Perpetrators do not view their victims as fully human.

Source: Ethiopia News Agency. American Federal Model Can Inspire Ethiopian Reforms Ethiopia Insight 15 April, 2026 By Nagessa Dube Ethiopia’s federal system is constitutionally established but structurally incomplete. For most of its modern history, the country operated under centralized rule, first as a unitary monarchy until the 1974 revolution, then as a Marxist-Leninist state under the Derg from 1974 to 1991. Federalism was formally introduced only with the 1995 Cons