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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

“Tell everyone we are being massacred”: Overlooked war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo By Rawya Rageh 19 December 2025 Amnesty International In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), across a vast swathe of mountainous terrain, a conflict is raging that the world has forgotten. The Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamic State-linked armed group commonly called the ADF, are abducting and killing civilians with alarming frequency, and abusing women and gir

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

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

© 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 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