Last Monday (Dec. 9), 65 years ago, the United Nations adopted a convention prohibiting genocide. It, therefore, seems appropriate to recall some examples of genocide, many of which have occurred ...

The eruption of violence that Rwanda experienced beginning on the evening of April 6, 1994, continues to haunt the central African nation 30 years on – it has also changed the country’s gender ...

NEW YORK, Nov 19 2024 (IPS) - Last April, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. At the Rwandan capital, Kigali, at United Nations Headquarters, in New York, ...

The world’s leading genocide scholars have declared that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide. The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) passed a resolution on ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This chorus of legal and moral authorities signals a deeper crisis: ...

On September 16, 2025, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the occupied Palestinian territory including East Jerusalem and Israel issued its third report on the situation in Gaza since ...

This blog was written by a CFR Education intern in the summer of 2026. When I was younger, “genocide” was a term I often heard but seldom understood. In my K-12 journey, history was usually taught ...

Gerald Posner's new analysis, titled "The Genocide Case Against Hamas," investigates whether Hamas's October 7 massacre meets ...

The risk of the Uyghur genocide being forgotten is a grave concern. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not only employed deliberate and calculated tactics to conceal its genocide and crimes against ...