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Genocide Emergency: Xinjiang, China 2025

Government social media post in April 2017 shows detainees in a political education camp in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang. © Xinjiang Bureau of Justice WeChat Account Genocide Emergency: Xinjiang, China 2025 Twelve million people, mostly Uyghur Muslims, live in Xinjiang, China, officially the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to assimilate Uyghurs, replacing their culture with Han Chinese language and culture. Uyghur

Rights group accuses RSF of systematic sexual violence

By Faisal Ali Report finds paramilitary group responsible for vast majority of attacks as conflict devastates civilian population. The report documents systematic sexual violence against women in Sudan [File: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters] A women’s rights organisation has documented nearly 1,300 cases of endemic sexual and gender-based violence across war-torn Sudan, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) blamed for the overwhelming majority of attacks. The Strategic

The Ten Stages of the Russian Genocide in Ukraine

Source: EU Debates, News & Opinions The Ten Stages of the Russian Genocide in Ukraine By Emily Mullin And the Genocide Watch Ukraine Team Talks about a negotiated settlement of Russia’s war against Ukraine have dominated international headlines. As many hope that President Trump can talk Mr. Putin into ending the Russian invasion, we must never forget the incalculable suffering Russia has inflicted on the Ukrainian people. Russia has committed every war crime and crime ag

Sudan-Women Endure starvation, rape, bombs fleeing El Fasher

© UNFPA | A temporary clinic in Tawila for people fleeing conflict in Darfur. "There is mounting evidence that rape is being deliberately and systematically used as a weapon of war," says UN Women. 11 November 2025 | Peace and Security In war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war, and simply being a woman there is “a strong predictor” of hunger, violence, and death, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday. “Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the

Sudan Is In Free Fall

Sudan Is in Free Fall The New York Times Nov. 6, 2025 Refugees from paramilitary genocide in El Fasher, in a camp in Tawila, Sudan.Credit ...Muhnnad Adam/Associated Press Opinion/Guest Essay By Eric A. Friedman, Suad Abdel aziz and John Prendergast A Sudanese journalist, Muammar Ibrahim, stayed behind to document atrocities while thousands fled a genocidal blood bath in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in Sudan. He was abducted and remains detained. Mohammed Elmakki, a

Why Save Darfur Didn't Save Darfur

Relatives mourn over the body of 1-year-old Ali, who died of malnutrition in June 2004 in a refugee camp in El-Geneina in the Darfour, Sudan. The total number of people who have died as a result of the Darfur conflict is uncertain, but activists say it could exceed 400,000.Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images file Why Save Darfur Didn’t Save Darfur By Prof. Gregory Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch Written in March 2012, converted to past tense in 2025 In 2003, Huma

Genocide Again in Darfur

Families shot down, held at ransom as they flee Darfur’s killing fields The Washington Post November 1, 2025 by Katharine Houreld and Hafiz Haroun A woman rests in Tewila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, on Oct. 28 after fleeing El Fashir in the wake of the city's fall to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (AFP/Getty Images) Sudan’s RSF paramilitary and its allies have carried out mass ethnic killings and hostage taking in the captured city of El Fashir, survivo

Sudan's paramilitary killed hundreds at Darfur hospital

Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, speak at their camp in Tawila, Sudan, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhnnad Adam) By Samy Magdy CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people at a hospital, including patients, after they seized the provincial capital of North Darfur over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described har

UN report on Israel’s genocidal gender-based violence

Responding to a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel published today concluding that Israel has systematically used sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence against Palestinians since October 2023 and carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza by destroying women’s healthcare and reproductive health facilities and blocking access to reproductive healthcare, Amnesty Inter