Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust – simply because they were Jews. It was then that the mantra “Never again” was born. And yet it did happen again … in Cambodia and in Bosnia, in Rwanda and in Darfur. And it’s still happening today. Just look…
The statistics concerning women and violence are staggering: An estimated one out of every three women in the world will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused during her lifetime. At least 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, and almost 750 million were married before they turned 18.…
Today is the 15th anniversary of the start of conflict in Darfur, the first genocide of the 21st century. The Darfur genocide has caused the deaths of approximately 400,000 Darfuris, and displaced more than three million people. Although the International Criminal Court has indicted Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against…
More than 150 students and adults eager to learn about ongoing mass atrocities and what they can do about them will gather from Feb. 10-12 in Washington, D.C., for the third annual Lemkin Summit to End Genocide and Mass Atrocities. The Summit, held at American University, is named after Polish lawyer and activist Raphael Lemkin…
Today, a broad coalition of organizations from across the Jewish community — including leaders of major organizations and the Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox movements — released a letter urging the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act of 2017 (S. 2060). Twenty-four national organizations, including Jewish World Watch,…
To all of our supporters and friends: As we begin the work of 2018, we want to first take a moment to thank you for all your amazing contributions in 2017. You spoke up for people fleeing genocide and mass atrocities. You helped restore the dignity of Rohingya refugees with medical and sanitary care kits. You helped bring much…
Jewish World Watch staged a public Rally for the Rohingya on Nov. 8 in front of the Myanmar Consulate, decrying “ethnic cleansing” and facing off with deniers of the crisis. LOS ANGELES — More than 50 Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and others turned out during the noon hour on Wednesday, Nov. 8, to march and…
Background: The Rohingya are a minority ethnic group from Myanmar’s Rakhine State – they are mostly Muslim but there are also some Hindu. The Rohingya population are denied citizenship under the 1982 Myanmar nationality law, despite being able to trace Rohingya history to the 8th century. They are restricted from freedom of movement, state education…
On Monday, a top official at the United States Department of State announced that the U.S. believes the Syrian regime has “authorized the extrajudicial killings of thousands of detainees using mass hangings at the Saydnaya military prison” outside Damascus. Further, the U.S. believes the Assad government has built a crematorium to dispose of the bodies…
Great news! Thanks to the work of atrocities prevention advocates like you, Congress is standing up for the Syrian and Congolese people. This week The House of Representatives passed: The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2016 (H.R.5732): A bill that seeks to help “halt the wholesale slaughter of the Syrian people, encourage a negotiated political settlement,…