Does the end of pre-publication censorship of newspapers by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) signal an opening of freedom of expression in Sudan? Likely no, because President/War Criminal Omar al-Bashir replaced pre-censorship...

The last surviving commander of one of the Holocaust's greatest struggles passed away on Friday. Marek Edelman was among the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, beginning in April 1943, during which a poorly-armed force of 220 Jewish men and women...

On World AIDS Day last year, I wrote about the use of rape as a tool of genocide in Rwanda, and the women who survived and are now living with the disease. This year, we turn our attention to Darfur. Sexual violence is recognized as problem of...

This is a guest-post from Mark Hanis, the Founder and President of the Genocide Intervention Network. You’ve probably heard George Clooney speak about the genocide in Darfur. You might have seen the atrocities in Eastern Congo outlined on 60 Minutes...

Is the Obama administration's foreign policy team playing a "good cop, bad cop" routine with Sudan, or is the U.S. Ambassador to the UN stepping on the toes of the Special Envoy to Sudan? UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who is known for her tough stance...

Before Adolf Hitler seized power in Germany, Josef Stalin was expressing mass murdering ingenuity of his own farther east, using an orchestrated famine to crush Ukrainian resistance to his communist rule. An estimated seven to ten million people died...

Does global warming's impending threat of rising sea levels amount to genocide? According to the charismatic president of the low-lying island nation The Maldives, it does. President Mohamed Nasheed, whose country could be completely submerged by the...