Latest Genocide Stories

ENCINO, Calif., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Apple reacts to factory audits exposing the poor working conditions in its factories, Jewish World Watch (JWW) has launched a campaign this Passover season aimed at educating people on the "conflict minerals" present in all electronics. JWW's new website, www.IsMyCellPhoneKosher.com, explains that minerals found in all of our cell phones - tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold - provide funding for armed groups committing horrific...

New Petition Calls on President Obama to Help Halt Religious Cleansing WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christian Solidarity International (CSI) issued a Genocide Warning today for endangered religious minorities in the Islamic Middle East, and called on President Barack Obama to make their survival a priority as the United States responds to the "Arab Spring". CSI simultaneously launched a petition to the President, asking him to respond to the upsurge of...

This Thanksgiving holiday, youth members of Rocket21 (the new social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and futures) will expand their knowledge of global issues and social justice while giving thanks and engaging in philanthropy, through a partnership with i-ACT, (whose innovative technology fosters interaction between genocide victims and their supporters). San Francisco and Redondo Beach, CA (PRWEB) November 23, 2011 This Thanksgiving holiday, youth...

Veterans to benefit from partnership and innovation between non-profits, government. Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 07, 2011 Today, Warrior Gateway announces the G.I. Network: A Nation of Support. One Network, the largest free network available designed to connect hundreds of thousands government programs and vetted non-profits, with the millions of veterans in the US. Available in January 2012, the G.I. Network will connect veterans and their families with more than 220,000 government...

  Researchers from North Carolina State University are proposing a health-based approach to identifying groups at high risk of genocide, in a first-of-its-kind attempt to target international efforts to stop these mass killings before they start. Genocide, or the willful attempt to exterminate a specific population, is a violation of international law. In recent years, international discussion of genocide has focused in part on finding ways to identify populations at risk in order to...

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC applauds President Obama's announcement today of a bold initiative to strengthen the U.S. government's ability to respond to and prevent genocide and mass atrocities worldwide. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "President Obama has demonstrated America's commitment to moral and international legal obligations to identify and react to warning signs of genocide and mass atrocity, and then act to prevent them,"...

NEW YORK, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Left without the legal protection of husbands after the ugly bloodletting of 1994, fifty women stood together in Rwanda to form AVEGA Agahozo, the Association of Widows of the Genocide, and 17 years later they are still helping one another and thousands of other survivors to get on with the business of living. For their work, the group will receive the 2011 Women's Rights Prize of The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, a $500,000 unrestricted cash...

Genealogy website Ancestry.com and the US Holocaust Museum are working together to fill gaps in some family histories with a project named The World Memory Project, AFP is reporting. The US Holocaust Museum is digitizing its records and allowing them to be accessed online. The opening of these records for online viewing is intended to increase sources of information about victims of the Holocaust, both Jewish and non-Jewish.The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement that the...

September 21, 2010 marks the one year anniversary of the release of a landmark document produced by researchers at Concordia University. Mobilizing The Will to Intervene  (W2I) offers governments practical steps to prevent future genocides and mass atrocities. Produced by researchers with the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) based at Concordia, the document was presented to the governments of Canada and The United States of America. It has already yielded...

Experiences from the Holocaust led to the international community coming together and agreeing on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Despite this, more cases of genocide occurred during the 20th century than during any other century. Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that it is precisely these comparisons with the Holocaust that have often hindered intervention on the part of the international community."The Holocaust is...