August 2026 By Aiden Carlton Genocide Watch A man waves a Lebanese flag as he stands amid the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli strikes, in Tyre, Lebanon, November 27, 2024 [Adnan Abidi/Reuters] On April 16, 2026, a United States (US)-brokered ceasefire took effect in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, who have been engaged in a multi-staged armed conflict since October 8, 2024, following Hamas’ invasion of Israel the day prior, in which it committed genocidal attacks on Israeli...

By August Wyma and Sophia Khan Girls read from their textbooks at the Dasht-e-Barchi Education Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Credit:UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani) Afghanistan is a religiously and ethnically diverse country whose modern history has been shaped by attempted intervention, political instability, and national identity struggles. Within such circumstances, the Hazara people in Afghanistan have endured over a century of systematic persecution because of their distinct ethnic and religious...

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 Stages of...