Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

Traveling artist brings a piece of Rwanda to Spokane
KXLY Spokane
When genocide struck Rwanda's countryside in spring of 1994, an estimated half a million men, women and children were killed over the course of 13 weeks. According to Human Rights Watch, the true number is hard to establish due to denials, ...

Press TV
Turkey needs to adopt logical stance towards Muslim neigbors
Press TV
In January, France passed a law against the so-called "armenian genocide" and Turkey´s protests were treated with disdain. Ankara always claimed that it had alternatives if the EU closed its doors for Turkey. It was assuming a predominant role among ...

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Another Canadian foreign policy is possible: Alternatives to Harper's militarism
rabble.ca
Usually in the aftermath of bad wars and genocides there is support for building or strengthening universal organizations to prevent such mistakes. But our elected officials express no interest in conflict prevention or developing a more effective ...

Republic of Srpska: 20 years of struggle
Pravda
Muslims and some Croats (eg, former Croatian President Stipe Mesic) state that the RS was created largely due to the genocide of the Muslims, and therefore this state institution has no right to exist. Continuing the logical series, a unitary Muslim ...

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ULS stays within budget as lineup changes
The Oracle
ULS also hosted genocide prevention group Invisible Children and sponsored Spinoza scholar Steven Nadler at no cost. An additional $40000 was set aside for a "distinguished speaker residency" program designed to bring about 10 prominent local figures ...

Scholars Call for Israeli Recognition of the Assyrian Genocide
AINA (press release)
(AINA) -- In a significant milestone for efforts towards the worldwide recognition of the Assyrian genocide, nearly thirty internationally renowned holocaust and genocide scholars, and Assyrian and Greek social, cultural and religious groups, ...

NDP leadership candidate makes stop in Okanagan-Shuswap
Vernon Morning Star
... NDP critic for foreign affairs, focusing particularly on advocating for women's equality in war zones. Since 2009, he has served as the chairperson of the all-party parliamentary group for the prevention of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

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MSP gives Croatia until 30 August for response
EMportal
The Republic of Croatia filed the suit against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia July 2, 1999, citing Article IX of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. With the transformation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ...

Salisbury Post
Violin that survived Holocaust to be played in Salisbury
Salisbury Post
Weiman, the speaker March 1 at First United Methodist Church, is an international speaker and activist on genocide prevention and promotion of human rights and democratic values. Background supplied on Weiman says she will share through words and music ...

'The Future We Want' - UN Chief Five-Year Action Plan
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
These are sustainable development; preventing and mitigating conflicts, human rights abuses and the impacts of natural disasters; building a safer and more secure world; supporting countries in transition; and working to engage the talents of women and ...

Asbarez Armenian News
Akcam Says Genocide Recognition is about Justice, Not Freedom of Thought
Asbarez Armenian News
To that end, the space for genocide denial in the international arena must be narrowed and ultimately eliminated. Turkey's denial policy should be reconsidered within this perspective of prevention of genocide in the global world.
France's Armenian genocide bill - Who? What? Where? Why?RFI

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“All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals,” by ...
Washington Post
The creation of this position testifies to the growing profile that the prevention and punishment of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes came to assume in US foreign policy during the 1990s. But, as Scheffer shows in his detailed account, ...

Baloch Could Divide Administration and Congress on Pakistan Policy
Huffington Post (blog)
These interests could include the prevention of genocide, stopping the spread of Islamic extremism, promoting an independent and economically viable Afghanistan, mitigating the threat of the Pakistan nuclear program, and countering Pakistani efforts ...

Romano Vod'i
Romani activist to Czech Senate on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Look at North ...
Romano Vod'i
A gathering held in the Czech Senate today on the occasion of Holocaust Victims' Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity Day warned against being passive with respect to new forms of anti-Semitism and of the need to counteract wrongdoing.
Opinion: Exploiting Memory of Child Victims of the Holocaust Is Downright ObsceneJewish Exponent

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VietNamNet Bridge
Tanzania: Migiro to Retain UN Post for Six Months
AllAfrica.com
He said "two Under-Secretaries-General -- my Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, and Special Adviser for Prevention of Genocide, will relinquish their duties mid this year. "I intend to carefully review the needs of these offices, ...
UN chief outlines five-year action plan to build 'the future we want'UN News Centre
Senior Management Heads Roll at World BodyInter Press Service

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Armenian Weekly
French Senate Passes Measure Making Genocide Denial a Crime
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
The vote “will further consolidate the existing mechanisms of prevention of crimes against humanity,” the statement said. Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II has addressed a letter of gratitude to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Akcam: Genocide Recognition is about Justice, Not Freedom of ThoughtArmenian Weekly
France's Armenian genocide bill - Who? What? Where? Why?RFI
Turkey's Erdogan hits out at 'racist' French genocide billFRANCE 24
B92 -euronews -RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
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An International Response to Prevent Future Genocides
Huffington Post UK (blog)
The Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities established a standing interagency Atrocities Prevention Board to coordinate the US government's response to situations where mass atrocities and genocide threaten. It has the potential to save ...

B92
ICJ gives Croatia until Aug. 30 to respond
B92
The case in question concerns what is officially known as Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia) - the Croatian genocide lawsuit against Serbia, and Serbia's subsequent counter-suit ...

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Jewish Exponent
Opinion: Exploiting Memory of Child Victims of the Holocaust Is Downright Obscene
Jewish Exponent
The hundreds of thousands of children killed in subsequent genocides in Rwanda, Darfur and the former Yugoslavia fared no better. The 1948 Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was supposed to protect them.

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Dewar comes to the Coast
Coast Reporter
... as the NDP critic for Foreign Affairs, focusing particularly on advocating for women's equality in war zones. Since 2009 he has served as the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity.

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