Blog Archives

Obama has nominated Samantha Power – a scholar of U.S. foreign policy on genocide – as ambassador to the United Nations (Boston Globe)

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An art instillation of one million artificial bones in front of the National Mall in Washington draws attention to ongoing struggles around the world (msnbc)

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Jay Winter of The Chronicle Review tells the story of Raphael Lemkin and the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948

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The prime minister of Cambodia has put forth controversial legislation which makes it illegal to deny the war crimes and genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge regime (The Independent)

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Guatemala’s top court has overturned the conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, after coming under heavy lobbying from Montt supporters (Huffington Post)

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Ajamu Baraka of the Institute for Policy Studies argues that the United States holds clear moral and legal culpability in enabling the genocide carried about by former Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt

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A non-Jewish woman from Cork who risked her life to save Jewish children from the Nazis has become Ireland’s first Righteous among the Nations (The Jewish Daily Forward)

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The New York Times reports on a new exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau Country, which tells the story of the Jewish communities of Greece before, during, and after the Holocaust

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The arrest of an Auschwitz guard follows Germany’s recent legal precent that makes it easier to bring aged Nazi criminals to justice (National Geographic)

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The Bulgarian Embassy asks to name a Washington intersection after a Bulgarian credited with helping to save the country’s Jewish population from deportation, stirring a heated debate over the country’s depiction of its past (Haaretz)

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