How We’ve Failed the Promise of Making “Genocide” a Crime
The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start. Israel...
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RECENT NEWS ON RUSSIAN GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE
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Creating a Shared Language of Genocide Prevention Across the Globe
A Granddaughter of Genocide Survivors Dreams of Never Again
A walk though Gaza with Raphael Lemkin, the father of the UN convention on genocide. (c) The Nation 2024 *to view the article with its...
Never Forget: The Psychology of Genocide
Today's events in Ukraine bear profound historical resonances. In 1944, the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term...
La masacre del pueblo armenio, el primer genocidio del siglo XX
que el mundo silenció durante décadas y Turquía aún niega EL 22 de abril de 1915 se inició una masacre que se prolongaría durante casi...
Putin’s Ukraine genocide is rooted in Russian impunity for Soviet crimes
In summer 1941, as the outside world first began to learn of the mass murders accompanying the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, British...
Why Russia’s War in Ukraine Is a Genocide
Not Just a Land Grab, but a Bid to Expunge a Nation With every passing day, it is becoming clearer that Russia is committing the gravest...
‘Smells of genocide’: How Putin justifies Russia’s war in Ukraine
Experts analyse the Russian president’s claims of ‘genocide’ as justification for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s President...
Putin’s claims that Ukraine is committing genocide are baseless, but not unprecedented
Ideas abound about why Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. But Putin himself offered one unexpected – and...
Identifying the Yazidi Genocide | Opinion
On Tuesday, the British House of Commons will debate whether the U.K. government should label ISIS atrocities against Yazidis as...
Recognition of 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh
"The concept of considering Genocide as a Crime has been established very strongly by the end of the twentieth century when Yugoslavian,...
Iraq in the News
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