“We are facing a government that is destroying the country, working against knowledge, scientific progress

“Soldiers are targeting Tigrayan women to stop them giving birth to more Tigrayans.” “We sent them to destroy the junta, not our people.” But outside the main towns of Tigray, most health clinics are shut — some destroyed in fighting, others plundered by soldiers as part of what Doctors Without Borders recently called a concerted effortto destroy

after a Palestinian request, came against the backdrop of Israel’s devastating military assault on Gaza , the International Court of Justice is considering a South African claim that Israel’s campaign in Gaza Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. has annexed east Jerusalem in a move that isn’t internationally recognized, while it withdrew from Gaza

following an aerial bombardment that resulted in casualties at the medical charity MSF-run facility, destroying Allowing more weapons to enter the country would only escalate the dire situation.

“It happened in such a busy place, near the market and the building where people come to register births

across the Israel-Lebanon border since the day after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza full-out war with Israel and that it will observe in Lebanon any ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

Hamsatu said that days later, one fighter, whose name she never learned, entered the hut and said a prayer Aid workers need military permission to enter the camps. serious threat to the general public,” said Ann Darman, of the Gender Equality, Peace and Development Center Amid the attacks, Hamsatu gave birth last June to the child of her rapist in the camp’s rundown clinic The government had opened a deradicalization center to help re-integrate the former victims, but it closed

the likelihood that America’s weakened democratic institutions will be undermined if not completely destroyed We know now that Hitler brought ruination on Germany, destroying those same middle class families with

people affected by the violence have not been able to return home, even if their houses have not been destroyed

A less noted element has been a systematic attempt to suppress births of Uyghurs. Xinjiang that in the past has occasionally been violent, China appears to be trying to stifle Uyghur births Zenz, a scholar who has documented a brazen Chinese government plan to suppress millions of Uyghur births definition in the 1948 Genocide Convention, China’s practices appear to qualify as genocide by suppressing births

definition, as defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, centers on the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” by bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”; by “imposing measures intended to prevent births And U.S. law defines genocide in 18 U.S.C. 1091 as “violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy

& United Kingdom) Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (United States) The Anti-Discrimination Centre Muninzwa, Author, Kenya PEN Centre, Member of Advisory Board of PEN Writers for Peace Committee Dušan Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, USA Stephania Kulaeva, Executive Director, Anti-Discrimination Center McLelland, Executive Director, Humanists International Alexander Verkhovskiy, Director, SOVA Research Center Tommaso Virgili, Computer Engineer, Sweden; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center