Cultural Genocide and the Kurdish Struggle in Iran
By Michał Jagielski Protesters hold up a placard reading "Stop Execution in Iran" as they take part in a rally in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 22, 2022. Iran executed four Kurds by hanging on Jan. 29, 2024, having found them guilty of charges of collaborating with Israel. Photograph: AFP The Kurds, along with other ethnic minorities in Iran, have been suffering from systemic attempts by the state to limit their autonomy and forcefully assimilate them into the dominant Iranian cultur
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Marginalization of the Baloch in Iran
By Michał Jagielski Protesters marching in Zahedan city, Sistan and Baluchistan province. Photograph: UGC/AFP Sistan and Balochistan Province has been the victim of persistent attempts by the Iranian regime to oppress the Baloch and limit their capacity for mobilization. The events and policies described in this report are not isolated instances of ethnic persecution, but rather a strategy created to eradicate the Baloch. Tehran frames its policies as a response to the percei
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Houthis say UN staff will be tried over Israeli links
Dozens of Yemeni UN personnel could face death penalty, as UN says at least 59 of its staff are being held by the group. A member of Houthi security forces walks outside the United Nations compound following reports of UN staffers being detained, in Sanaa, Yemen, on October 29, 2025 [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters] Yemen’s Houthi -run government will put dozens of detained United Nations staff on trial, alleging that they have spied for Israel or had links to an Israeli air strike t
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RSF digging mass graves in Sudan’s el-Fasher
The Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are collecting bodies after the deadly takeover of North Darfur capital, US researcher says. This image grab taken from handout video footage released on the paramilitary RSF's Telegram account on October 26, 2025, shows RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region [AFP] A researcher at Yale University in the United States says the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are digging mas
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Alliance/IRF Call for UN General Assembly action on Sudan
A boy sits at a camp for displaced people who fled from el-Fasher to Tawila, North Darfur, on October 27, 2025 [Mohammed Jamal/Reuters] The Genocide Working Group, a coalition of the 130 organization Alliance Against Genocide and the global International Religious Freedom Roundtable , has proposed a United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Sudan that: Demands an immediate ceasefire by all sides in the Sudan civil war; Demands unhindered access to food and medicine for a
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Why Save Darfur Didn't Save Darfur
Relatives mourn over the body of 1-year-old Ali, who died of malnutrition in June 2004 in a refugee camp in El-Geneina in the Darfour, Sudan. The total number of people who have died as a result of the Darfur conflict is uncertain, but activists say it could exceed 400,000.Marco Longari / AFP - Getty Images file Why Save Darfur Didn’t Save Darfur By Prof. Gregory Stanton Founding President Genocide Watch Written in March 2012, converted to past tense in 2025 In 2003, Huma
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