Ten years ago this month, the United Nations published the Congo Mapping Exercise Report. The landmark report documented more than 600 incidents of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between March 1993 and June 2003, with women and children as the primary victims. In addition to…
This week, we mark another major advocacy win as the House of Representatives approved the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in a near-unanimous vote of 406-3. This legislation presumes that all goods produced, in whole or in part, in the Xinjiang region of China are the product of Uyghur forced labor and bans these goods…
In a major development for the Rohingya justice movement, two soldiers of the Myanmar army have provided damning video testimony that they were directed to “shoot all you see and all you hear” by their superiors. In addition to confessing to their participation in a litany of violations, including rape, executions, the decimation of villages,…
[September 11, 2020]: In a major development in Sudan’s transition to democracy, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok agreed to a deal that effectively ends 30 years of rule under Islamic law. The agreement, signed with Abdelazziz Al-Hilu, leader of rebel group SPLM-N, declares: “the state shall not establish an official religion. No citizen shall be discriminated…
Shocking evidence has emerged that Boko Haram, an Islamist armed extremist group operating in the Lake Chad Basin, uses children as suicide bombers. This is both a war crime and a crime against humanity. On August 1, 2020, Boko Haram used child suicide bombers in an unlawful attack on a site for displaced persons in…
Jewish World Watch, a genocide prevention organization that brings hope and healing to survivors of mass atrocities worldwide, urgently appeals for immediate action to protect our long-time partner Dr. Denis Mukwege from recent threats of violence and death. Dr. Mukwege — 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Congolese gynecological surgeon, and trailblazing advocate for women’s rights…
UPDATE – July 30, 2020 – Jewish World Watch’s fears of mounting atrocities in Darfur have been realized. Just days after publication, on July 25, more than 60 people were reportedly killed and approximately 60 injured during an armed attack in West Darfur. On the same day, attackers killed at least 20 in South Darfur, including children. This is…
Nearly three years after unconscionable atrocities were unleashed upon the Rohingya of Myanmar by their country’s military and security forces, the United States still has not called the crimes perpetrated against this ethnoreligious minority group by their rightful name: Genocide. Jewish World Watch, in coalition with 57 other human rights organizations, sent a petition on July…
In 2014, the Yazidis in Iraq suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. Last year, the Kurds of Syria were subjected to ethnic cleansing during a US-sanctioned Turkish military operation. Now, both of these religious minority groups are facing yet another existential threat at the hands of Turkish forces. Urge the United States to…
Right on the heels of a major advocacy victory for the Uyghur crisis — the signing of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act into law — new evidence suggests that the Uyghurs of China are being subjected to not only crimes against humanity, but also genocide. The Chinese government is implementing draconian measures to severely…