genocide News

Artist, writer and actress, Kobina Wright has less than two weeks until her art show as she dedicates one of her paintings to help a social cause.

Experience the thrill of horse racing as it blends with the elegance of classical music and fine food at the Hagelou Ascot Prom on Saturday 12th May 2012 with Guests of Honour, HRH Saleh Bin Ghalib Al Quaiti and Prince Lorenzo de' Medici.

The characters in Who Will Carry the Word? struggle with their personal fears, concerns, and ultimately their hopes for future generations.

“Gut Wrenching and Heart Rending. Weinblatt’s characters and characterizations compel the reader to read onward. At the end of the read one feels both hope and admiration for the human spirit.” ---- Holocaust Center of Toledo

The Turkish government is now in default after ignoring a lawsuit brought against it and two Turkish banks over reparations for land in southern Turkey seized from Armenians during the Armenian Genocide.

Story of four American yachtsmen and their friend Stuart Glass, shot and killed in August 1978 while sailing a 28-foot, Malaysian bedar named Foxy Lady off the coast of Democratic Kampuchea, as Cambodia was called under the murderous Khmer Rouge.

When South Africa first shed the shackles of apartheid in 1994, the world applauded the Rainbow Nation, and for more than a decade, it seemed like the dream of a non racial society would be possible, in spite of government ineptitude and corruption.

The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission has teamed up with SURF Survivors Fund who has been working to raise funds to bring the Rwandan girls to Cleveland so they can participate in this summer’s AC Milan Continental Cup soccer tournament.

The Residential School experience is one that left a heart-breaking legacy.

The Statistically-Valid Study of MOL Participants from 2000-2008 Shows that the Impact of MOL Reaches Beyond Holocaust Education to Areas Such as Human Rights, Jewish Identity, Faith, Practice and Israel

A full-featured iPhone app about the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Designed to be the quintessential app on the subject.

International call to action is the report "The Massacre of Political Prisoners in 1988," published by the Abdorraham Boroumand Foundation, the author Geoffrey Robertson QC, “distinguished jurist” member of the UN Internal Justice Council.

Artist H-II: Stephen Michael Apatow, Founder of the United Nations Arts Initiative supports the National Society of Film Critics Statement On Jailed Iranian Directors.

Indonesia has finally agreed to ratify a tough world antismoking treaty, but only after photos and video reports of a two-year old who is so addicted that he smokes two packs a day appeared on the Internet -- activists elsewhere may follow lead

Heartbreaking account of a devastating national tragedy.

Jacob’s Courage chronicles the dazzling beauty of passionate coming-of-age love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered.

Scenario Development, launching the project “Scenarios on the Future of Rwanda” have reached the critical mass on the Advisory Panel and argue the case for developing scenarios in an article in This Is Africa, A Financial Times publication.

Teens in Prosper ISD launching a project to build the first Rwandan Genocide memorial in the U.S. By using twitter, the students hope to achieve 1 Million Tweets, one for every person killed, in 100 days, the amount of days the Genocide took.

Gregory H. Stanton, J.D., Ph.D., the founder of Genocide Watch, will be the keynote speaker at NSU's inaugural conference on Genocide Awareness on April 9 and 10. The conference is FREE, open to the public.

Scenario building methods to be used to create future scenarios about Rwanda, its socio-economic, political, environmental and human outlook. Rwanda is an increasingly central player in East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Corey Dragge is one of eighteen nationwide picked to lead organizing against world’s worst crimes.

Benedict F. Kiernan, Director of the Genocide Studies Program at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, will speak on "Preventing Genocide" at the Great Decisions free program at the Greenwich Library on February 22 at 7 P.M.

Through the course of history, genocide has claimed millions of lives, wiped out entire communities and villages, and destroyed cultures. Elizabeth Hankins hopes to educate and empower the youth so that we can help defeat the ugly cycle of genocide.

Los Angeles joins cities around the world on this global day of action, a Beat for Peace, the first leg in a yearlong campaign: Sudan365.

Gen. Wesley Clark and NATO resorted to Ecocide against an entire nation by deliberately unleashing toxic chemicals and VCMs 10,600 times above normal and used illegal cluster bombs on civilian populations… war crimes by every definition.

Those already committed to the September 21 fast include Don Cheadle, Mia Farrow, Sir Richard Branson, Pamela Omidyar, John Prendergast, Taylor Hanson, Shannon Sedwick-Davis, James Michael, and many more from around the world.

Johnny Strange is the youngest person to climb the famed 'Seven Summits" -- wants to raise awareness of genocide.

In a week when The Aegis Trust says there is clear evidence of several people suspected of committing torture and genocide overseas, such as in Rwanda and Iraq, have entered the country, War Crimes TV is continually making efforts to expose the truth

Jacob's Courage is a tender coming of age love story of two young adults during the Holocaust. It explores the dazzling beauty of passionate love and enduring bravery in a lurid world where the innocent are brutally murdered.

"Jacob's Courage" author, Charles S. Weinblatt, was interviewed by Jewish Literary Review. Jacob's Courage is a tender coming of age love story.

Looking at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia's House of Horror ruled by Kaing Guek Eav, (Duch), now on trial answering charges of Crimes Against Humanity in Phom Penh, Cambodia. Here: Cambodia

Over 1,100 have joined eight Americans fasting for two weeks thus far to bring awareness to genocide in Sri Lanka and force Obama administration to provide relief aid for the more than 300,000 civil war refugees in Sri Lanka.

A group of young Americans fast 10,000 meals to raise awareness to the genocide and civil war in Sri Lanka and to pressure Congress and the Obama administration to provide temporary relief aid to the more than 300,000 refugees in Sri Lanka.

A group of young Americans fast 10,000 meals to raise awareness to the genocide and civil war in Sri Lanka and to pressure Congress and the Obama administration to provide temporary relief aid to the more than 300,000 refugees in Sri Lanka.

While terrorism cannot be tolerated, the beliefs of others should be respected and tolerated as long as those beliefs do not include harming other people. And who on Earth should make this requirement into worldwide laws?

As spoken by the actor Harrison Ford playing the role of the President of the United States in the movie “Air Force One”: "Real Peace Is Not Just The Absence Of Violence, It Is The Presence Of Justice!". And what then is “Justice”?

The actor, Larry Fleinhardt , in the popular television show “Numb3rs”, in the episode entitled: "Arrow Of Time", says as a toast (the last line of the episode): "To the Causal Layer of Time: Within the small sphere of our life, we can stare in t

Set aside some time, get comfortable and embark on a wild ride. Kalunga: A Global Warning by Kent Windsor is a gripping novel that explores the life of an ex-SAS soldier and the atrocities of genocide in Africa.

Peace rally for gaza will be held Saturday January 17 from 3:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on the corner of Sylvania and Talmadge in Toledo, Ohio.

AFTA appeals to the Australian government, especially the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, to state clearly that the business with Rajapaksa government is not going to be, business as usual, the same way he has told the Mugabe regime.

In a week when the E.U. says there is clear evidence of war crimes being committed in the D.R.C., a new website is launched that is dedicated to exposing war criminals. War Crimes TV is spreading awareness of gross violations of human rights.

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." War Crimes TV has upgraded to 'Web 2.0' to provide a platform to highlight Genocides, past and present, face on.

Lane H. Montgomery, Author of Never Again, Again, Again...Genocide:...., and Andrew Hannah, leading humanitarian of the Bridge Foundation which provides humanitarian relief worldwide, to discuss "Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)"

The United League for Democracy in Laos, Inc. (ULDL), in cooperation with the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) and the Lao Community of Minnesota, have concluded events in Washington, D.C. to discuss serious human rights violations in Laos.

(Burma Global Action Network, in coalition with U.S. Campaign for Burma and Burma Campaign U.K. is calling for Global Day of Action on Saturday May 17th, 2008)

The "Road to Ready" Internet radio show will host special guest, the Honorable former U.S. Senator Robert Krueger. He will discuss his experiences from his new book about his duty as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi during acts of genocide.

Award-winning writer/filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek details the Sand Creek Massacre story. He hits President Bush with a reality check by juxtaposing the Sand Creek Massacre with the War in Iraq.

(Over 100,000 Dead With Mainstream Aid Organizations Unable To Reach Affected Areas)

(Internet Activism Organization Effectively Supporting The Freedom Of Civilians and Monks Of Burma Through Internet Networking)

Sand Creek Massacre film powers Native Americans