The atrocity prevention community faces an existential question: How do we continue our work when the fundamental norm of ...

In the United States, April is designated as Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month and is aimed at commemorating and raising awareness about genocides that occurred in the past, including the ...

Jewish groups praised President Obama’s initiative to develop a strategy to prevent genocide. Obama issued two orders Thursday, one to set up an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board and another ...

Joseph Lemkin and the European Jewish Association delivered a 30-page legal memorandum to Governor Shapiro and the ...

A few years ago, I attended a conference and sat down with Dr. Barry Kerzin, who is the personal physician of the Dalai Lama, the holy leader of the global Tibetan Buddhist movement. I wanted to ...

On July 14, 2025, British Parliamentarians, as supported by civil society organizations, launched a new initiative on atrocity crimes prevention, the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes (Standing Group) ...

Thirty-two years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the country’s story is often discussed in two distinct ways: as a history of tragedy and as a narrative of recovery. Both are true ...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security welcomes the scholars, NGOs, media outlets, and large human rights organizations who have spoken out in the past week, some of which ...

The new secretary-general of the United Nations should make genocide prevention a centerpiece of his reform agenda, concludes a new Council Special Report. “Ban Ki-moon should take the General ...

Kevin Bales CMG is the world’s leading scholar in contemporary slavery. He is Professor of Contemporary Slavery and Research Director of the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, UK. He was a co ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For months, the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces had pushed their country to the brink of genocide, encircling the city of El Fasher ...