Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman prays in front of skulls at a memorial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, marking the genocide that happened under the Khmer Rouge ...

Seventy-five years ago, in the wake of Nazi atrocities, the world made a vow. Countries pledged to liberate humanity from the “odious scourge” of genocide when, at the United Nations, they established ...

The UN General Assembly meets amid Israel’s genocide on Gaza, Myanmar’s genocide against the Rohingya, and other crises.

To stop genocide, we first need to recognise it when it’s happening - COMMENT: Lord Alton’s Genocide Determination Bill must ...

On January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, ordered provisional measures in the case of the Application of the Convention on ...

This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). On December 9 we see the anniversary of the Genocide ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The top United Nations court on Monday dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel ...

The DRC is making a third attempt to bring Rwanda before the world’s highest court in relation to the violence in its eastern ...

In the ICJ's order last month, it did not grant South Africa's main request, which was to order Israel to suspend military airstrikes in Gaza and to call for a permanent cease-fire. Israel rebuffed ...

On Friday, the International Court of Justice, in The Hague—one of the six principal parts of the United Nations—found that Israel must take action to prevent genocidal violence by its armed forces; ...

Israel has been convicted of genocide by protesters at Columbia and UCLA, but its genocide case before the International Court of Justice is still pending. Israel remains officially aghast that it, ...