Genocide Watch Annual Report 2025
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Genocide Watch Annual Report 2025
Genocide Watch had the most productive year in its 26-year history in 2025. Genocide Watch is now a fully virtual organization, which allows us to have a worldwide staff at low cost. A former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch has said, "Genocide Watch gives the most bang for the buck of any human rights organization."
Personnel
Genocide Watch has an all-volunteer staff of 35 persons. Genocide Watch has fifteen teams that meet weekly. We have an all staff meeting every Friday. We have staff from every continent.
Reach
Our reach has increased dramatically in the past two years. The hits on our website regularly reach over 10,000 per day, and our social media (Facebook, X. and LinkedIn) each reach over 10,000 people daily. Genocide Watch (www.genocidewatch.com) is one of the most visited websites on the internet for news that is focused on events that indicate threats, prevention, perpetration, and prosecution of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Genocide Watch’s Methodology
A primary purpose of Genocide Watch is the prediction and prevention of genocide. Our Ten Stages of Genocide model of the processes of genocide is the most widely taught and utilized predictive model for genocide prevention. Genocide Watch is usually the first antigenocide organization to predict genocide. We don’t wait until mass killing is underway to issue Genocide Watches, Warnings, and Emergencies. The Ten Stages model is event based and continuous. It is the only model that prescribes specific tactics for stopping each stage in the genocidal process.
Country Reports and News
On the Genocide Watch website, www.genocidewatch.com, dozens of updated country reports were posted this year. We posted hundreds of news articles that indicate risks of genocide in scores of countries. We posted numerous Special Reports on aspects of genocide on https://www.genocidewatchblog.com/ .
Monthly Reports: Genocide Watch sends monthly reports on the activities of its Advocacy Teams and Alliance Against Genocide members to subscribers to our newsletter. Examples: August 2025, September 2025, and October 2025.
The Alliance Against Genocide
130 NGOs in 31 countries are member organizations in the Alliance Against Genocide, the first and largest international coalition of anti-genocide organizations. Members of the Alliance Against Genocide have hundreds of employees worldwide, including many in countries at risk. Each Alliance member sets its own goals and does its own fundraising. New organizations apply to join the Alliance every month.
Joint projects with Alliance Against Genocide Members
With Rwanda’s Aegis Trust and the Pan African Lawyers Union, Genocide Watch co-sponsored a training conference for 100 African Lawyers in Arusha, Tanzania in March 2025. Genocide Watch wrote the Training Manual for the conference.
Rwanda’s Aegis Trust is constructing the African Centre for Genocide Prevention near Kigali. It will be led by former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Nderitu. Genocide Watch has been invited by Dr. Nderitu to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a formal relationship with the Centre.
Genocide Watch’s Ukraine Team raised $20,000 for Alliance Member Truth Hounds, which is gathering evidence of Russian genocide and crimes against humanity in Russian occupied areas of Ukraine.
International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS)
Genocide Watch is an institutional member of the IAGS. Dr. Stanton served as IAGS Vice President and President from 2005 – 2009. Five members of the Genocide Watch team attended the biennial meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars conference in Johannesburg October 21 - 25, 2025. Genocide Watch gave two panels at the conference.[1] Dr. Stanton also chaired a memorial panel for Dr. Israel Charny.[2]
Genocide Watch's Current Campaigns
Genocide Watch's Artificial Intelligence Project: Using AI to recognize and answer hate speech
Genocide Watch has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of the UN Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention to work with AI companies to develop software to recognize hate speech and answer it. It will be integrated into AI programs and social media. Dr. Stanton has incorporated a Public Benefit Nonprofit Corporation in Virginia, The Word Institute LLC that will receive investments from AI companies with the funds and personnel to carry out the project.
Dr. Stanton introduced the Genocide Watch-UN AI project on June 18, 2025 at the UN International Day for Countering Hate Speech. Over 50 nations sent their UN Ambassadors and other officials to the meeting. The Genocide Watch - UN project was warmly received.
A UN General Assembly Resolution on Sudan
Genocide Watch’s Sudan and Legal Teams have drafted a UN General Assembly Resolution on Sudan that:
· Demands an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the Sudan civil war;
· Demands unhindered access to food and medicine for all persons in El Fasher and elsewhere in Sudan;
Condemns ethnically targeted attacks and starvation as acts of genocide and war crimes;
Calls for accountability throughout Sudan and cooperation with the International Criminal Court;
Establishes an independent investigative commission on Sudan to report to the General Assembly;
Urges the re-establishment of a UN mission to protect civilians and support aid delivery.
The resolution is proposed under the United Nations Uniting For Peace Procedure, which empowers the UN General Assembly to recommend collective action by UN Members when UN Security Council action is blocked by a veto by any of the Permanent Five members of the Security Council.
Genocide Watch's Sudan and Legal Teams are meeting with UN Missions in New York and with Foreign Ministries seeking co-sponsorship of the resolution.
A New United Nations Charter
Genocide Watch's Legal Team is drafting a new Charter for the United Nations. Article 109 of the UN Charter provides that with a majority vote by the UN General Assembly and seven members of the UN Security Council, a General Conference can be called to amend or rewrite the UN Charter. Such a conference has never happened. It is time to release the UN from the shackles placed on it by the colonial powers in 1945, including the Perm-5 veto that allows Perm-5 nations to commit genocide and crimes against humanity with impunity, and that gives nations allied with Perm-5 members immunity to commit such crimes without any restraint by the UN Security Council.
Budget
Genocide Watch spent $5000 per year for its first fifteen years. We currently spend $15,000 per year. We received $12,000 in 2025 from three foundations. A church gives us $2000 per year. We receive about $1000 per year in donations through our website.
Since 1999, Genocide Watch has never borrowed money or gone into debt. We have had a balanced budget every year. We hope that our donors will donate what Genocide Watch needs to continue through 2025 and 2026.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Gregory H Stanton
Founding President, Genocide Watch
Chair, Alliance Against Genocide
[1] IAGS Panel 1 was on "The Rhetoric of Genocide." It included presentations by: Dr. Stanton on Genocide Watch's Artificial project with the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to work with Artificial Intelligence companies to develop AI software to recognize hate speech and immediately answer it; Dr. Frankie Condon, Professor of Writing, University of Waterloo, Canada, Lead Editor, "Historical Perspectives on the Discourse of Genocide"; Ms. Emily Mullin, Osgood Hall School of Law, Toronto, Ukraine Team Leader, on "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Historical Roots of Russia's Genocidal Rhetoric"; and Ms. Brenda Salazar Lamar, of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on "Israel, Israeli Media, and Genocidal Rhetoric."
IAGS Panel 2 was a virtual panel on "From Theory to Practice: Conceptual Frameworks for Genocide Prediction, Intervention, Justice, and Prevention." It included presentations by: Dr. Stanton on "Genocide Watch: The Theoretical and Legal Frameworks that Guide our Work;" Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharji, Senior Research Fellow at Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University, India, on "Of Bodies and Race: Examining Genocides in Sudan from a Biopolitical Perspective;" and Ms. Sandrine Mugenga Irankunda, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), on "Genocide Denial Across Generations: The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi and the Struggle for Truth."
[2] Dr. Stanton chaired an IAGS memorial plenary session on the Life and Work of Professor Israel Charny, a founder of the field of genocide studies. It included presentations by Prof. Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen of Ariel University, Israel, Dr. Tessa Hoffman of the Free University of Berlin, Mr. Marc Sherman of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem, Israel, and Dr.Stanton, followed by moving tributes and remembrances from the audience.
