Tag: Genocide & Crimes Against Humanity

At a moment when global progress on human rights often seems to be faltering, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has taken a long-overdue step forward. Last month, the ICC issued ...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been dire throughout Israel’s 22-month war against Hamas, but the crisis has reached new heights in recent months amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid. ...

On Friday, Germany responded to news that Israel intended to take control of Gaza City by announcing it would halt the export of any military equipment that could be used ...

In June, U.S. President Donald Trump hosted leaders from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in the Oval Office to sign a peace deal, declaring, “Today, the ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at evidence of mass starvation in Gaza, Thailand striking a cease-fire deal with Cambodia, and potential problems in the U.S.-European Union trade ...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in recent months has emerged as one of the fiercest internal critics of his country’s war in Gaza. Olmert has repeatedly excoriated Israeli Prime ...

On July 11, the New York Times Magazine ran a deeply reported piece on how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has prolonged the war in Gaza for political reasons. In ...

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “We’re working with the United States very closely” to find countries that will “give the ...

The first thing I learned about the world on Sunday morning was that Israeli airstrikes had killed dozens of Palestinians on yet another bloody day in Gaza. I heard this ...

In the early months of the Syrian Civil War, a journalist friend covered a massacre clearly perpetrated by government forces near Homs. There was an unanticipated roadblock to publication, though; ...