Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

Public Radio of Armenia
The 'Exact Translation': How 'Medz Yeghern' Means Genocide
Armenian Weekly
Taking into account the significance of international recognition of genocide in preventing the crime of genocide in the future, we believe that it is the time to call things by their proper names and to condemn the Medz Yeghern defining it as genocide ...
Obama Asks Supreme Court Not to Hear Insurance Claims CaseThe Armenian Mirror-Spectator

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Did The Federal Government Of Nigeria Engage In Igbo Genocide? - OpEd
Eurasia Review
Twice the United Nations had decided, unanimously in the negative, and created new international law converting the moral right of humanitarian intervention into a legal right – The Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Could it ...

Washington Times
Black pastors demand broader probe after Kermit Gosnell abortion trial
Washington Times
“Black genocide simply isn't a thing that is happening in the United States, though this meme has been floating around anti-choice circles for years,” wrote Ms. Gandy. “[T]he answer to the black abortion ... Black women of childbearing age represent 3 ...

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ABC Online
Budgetary nihilism: Deferring foreign aid signals a distorted moral vision
ABC Online
These huge inequalities have evolved in the course of one historical process that was pervaded by monumental crimes of slavery, colonialism, and genocide - crimes that have devastated the populations, cultures, and social institutions of four ...

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My Turn: 'Prisoner Without a Name'
The Recorder
In July, he was classified as a maximum custody detainee, with Prevention of Injury (POI) status, entailing checks by guards every five minutes. ... Amy Fagin is a visual artist, author and life-long student and educator of genocide living in New Salem ...

Obama Asks Supreme Court Not to Hear Insurance Claims Case
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
The US government's May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in which the “Turkish massacres of Armenians” is cited among other “outstanding ...

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EurActiv
Human rights concerns loom as EU hosts Mali conference
EurActiv
Earlier, the UN special advisor on the prevention of genocide, Adama Dieng, said he was “deeply concerned at the risk of reprisal attacks.” “There have been serious allegations of human rights violations committed by the Malian army, including summary ...

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Voice of America
Experts Analyze Issues Surrounding US Syria Intervention - VOA
Voice of America
In 1948, in the wake of the Holocaust in Europe, the U.N. adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, defined as any act of violence designed to destroy all or part of a specific national, ethnic, racial or ...

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Salon
Anti-abortionists prey on minority women
Salon
In 2009, a white Texas-based anti-abortion activist named Mark Crutcher released a film he wrote and directed, “Maafa 21: Black Genocide in the 21st Century.” Crutcher populated the film with African-American community activists and pastors who have ...

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ANYTHING BELOW DECADES IS A WASTE OF RATIONS
Ottawa Citizen (blog)
Once, almost 20 years ago, very close on the heels of the Rwandan genocide, I was standing in the cramped section of the old Ottawa airport where international travellers awaited their bags. Across the carousel I spotted Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, also ...

KEXP “Eat the Airwaves” Program Notes, May 11, 2013
Eat the State
Krusinski was – get this – the chief of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention unit. He'd only been in the job for about two months and, while a Pentagon spokeswoman said he was quickly removed ... Efrain Rios Montt of genocide, and sentenced him to ...

National and World Briefs for May 13
Richmond Times Dispatch
Mexico's National Disaster Prevention Center said the volcano spewed steam more than a half mile into the sky. The government deployed soldiers and police in the event of a bigger eruption, and officials closed off a 7-square-mile zone around the cone ...

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Irish Times
Ex-dictator's backers rally at Guatemala prison
Salon
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — At least 500 people have protested outside a Guatemala prison against the genocide conviction for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. Supporters dressed in white and military garb shouted “Viva Rios Montt” on Sunday outside the ...
Former Guatemalan dictator found guilty of genocideIrish Times
Ex-Guatemalan leader convicted of genocide of Ixil ethnic groupUPI.com

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Glorious Spring, Walk-n-Roll Benefit, An Aspirin a Day: Best of the Blogs
Patch.com
Roseville Area H.S.chapter of STAND 5k Walk/RUN- Genocide Awareness. 5k run/walk-STAND up to genocides. ... Learn more about the prevention and early detection of melanoma in honor of Melanoma Monday. (mohiba tareen). Spring Clean Your 401(k) ...

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Salon
Guatemala sets verdict for ex-dictator for Friday
Salon
Guatemala sets verdict for ex-dictator for Friday An Ixil Indian woman, the relative of a civil war victim, uses earphones to hear translations between Spanish and the Ixil language during the genocide trial of former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt in ...

Irish Times
Former Guatemalan dictator found guilty of genocide
Irish Times
Adama Dieng, the UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said last month that the case was the first in which a former head of state had been indicted by a national tribunal on charges of genocide. The "historical precedent," and especially a ...
Ex-Guatemalan leader convicted of genocide of Ixil ethnic groupUPI.com
Ex-dictator's backers rally at Guatemala prisonSalon

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Public Radio of Armenia
Obama asks Supreme Court not to hear insurance claims case
Public Radio of Armenia
1. the U.S. Government's May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in which the “Turkish massacres of Armenians” is cited among other ...

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New York Times
Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group
New York Times
Adama Dieng, the United Nations special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said last month that the case was the first in which a former head of state had been indicted by a national tribunal on charges of genocide. The “historical precedent,” and ...

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United Nations Reaction Muted to Warning Signs of Genocide in Middle East
AINA (press release)
Travis concluded that legal reforms in the United Nations system were required to "promote a universal application of human rights norms and genocide prevention." Travis suggested several possible reforms, including decoupling the International ...

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Asbarez Armenian News
BREAKING NEWS: Obama Asks Supreme Court Not To Hear Insurance Claims ...
Asbarez Armenian News
1. the U.S. Government's May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in which the “Turkish massacres of Armenians” is cited among other ...

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