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Rape as an Act of Genocide
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Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder
Credit...Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder The New York Times July 11, 2026 By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Last year, human rights experts warned for many months that a brutal militia was about to overrun a major Sudanese city, El Fasher, and massacre inhabitants. President Trump and other world leaders mostly shrugged. The militia went ahead and overran El Fasher, slaughtering some 60,000 people in a few weeks. Now the same m


Sexual Violence and Bodily Autonomy in Palestine
By Grace Harris and Franzie Schatzl Israeli soldiers standing guard in an alleyway in Hebron, West Bank. Photograph: Mohammad Nazal/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images Sexual and gender-based violence is pervasive in conflict today. Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) includes crimes such as rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, sterilization, forced marriage, and other acts of a similar nature perpetrated against people in a conflict-related setting.


UK Foreign Office claims only a court can find "genocide."
Sudan Is The Genocide Which Dares Not Speak Its Name – with warnings ignored by the British Foreign Office – “The world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe” – but where are the protests against the perpetrators. My Call for Blue Helmets; an Arms Embargo Across Sudan; The Imposition of A No Fly Zone; And For War Lords To Face Justice. Jun 26, 2026 [Genocide Watch comments are highlighted in green.} Genocide Watch Report Genocidal RSF reach 500,000 people in El Obeid, Sudan Reb


Weaponizing the Womb: Reproductive Genocide in Tigray
By Larisa W Chikanya Genocide Watch A poster shows the faces of victims of a massacre that took place in Bora during the Tigray war [Gelila Getahun/ Al Jazeera] What led to atrocities? Tigray is the most northern of Ethiopia's 11 regional states, lying along the southern border of Eritrea with Sudan to the west. Armed conflict between federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), erupted in November 2020, and rapidly escalated into a large-scale military c


Genocidal RSF reach 500,000 people in El Obeid, Sudan
Men push a cart at the Adre border post between Sudan and Chad. AFP Sudan's RSF closes in on Al Obeid as UN warned of imminent atrocities Battle over city in North Kordofan region follows string of setbacks for Sudanese army in Darfur The National News June 21, 2026 By Hamza Hendawi Cairo: Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is closing in on army-held Al Obeid, in the heavily contested North Kordofan region, with dozens of countries warning an attack on the city could


US Senators propose PEACE in Sudan Act of 2026
The Goz al-Haj camp, north of Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph: The Guardian United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee June 10, 2026 Senators Shaheen, Risch, Coons, Cornyn Introduce Legislation to Address Conflict in Sudan WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Preventing External Aggression and Conflict E
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