Geopolitics

Russia reduced Genocide Convention 'to confetti', Ukraine tells world court

New York: Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression. more

New US Secretary of State says genocide was committed against the Uyghurs in China

Washington: Newly confirmed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has targeted China and said the country's treatment towards Uyghur and Muslim minority population is genocide.&n ...

China's treatment of Uighur Muslims is close to genocide: United States

US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien recently commented that what China is doing to Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang is close to genocide. He made the remarks while attending a virtu ...

Taking a lead against genocide, ‘no society is immune’ warns Adama Dieng

New York: Adama Dieng assumed the position of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide in 2012, after a long and distinguished career in law and human rights, stepping down fr ...

UN genocide adviser welcomes historic conviction of former Khmer Rouge leaders

New York, Friday’s historic conviction of two former Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia on genocide charges has been welcomed by the United Nations Special Adviser on the issue.

World ‘must nurture the courage to care – and the resolve to act,’ says UN chief, reflecting on 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the world to reflect on the suffering of those who perished, as well as survived, the Rwandan genocide, ...

Focus on future, prioritize reconciliation for the region, UN envoy urges Western Balkans

New York, Feb 13 (JEN): Concluding a twelve-day visit to Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide called fo ...

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