On Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the University of Connecticut’s Dodd Center, Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs hosted a panel reflecting on the legacy of the United Nations Genocide Convention. Titled “75 ...

A woman prays in front of skulls at a memorial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, marking the genocide that happened under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images Seventy-five ...

Journal of Strategic Security, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2018), pp. 20-31 (14 pages) This article addresses the under-theorized dual-mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of ...

Genocide is not a new phenomenon in human experience. It was practiced in Biblical times[1] and long before that. Indeed, ...

Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly sparked serious allegations of genocide. But how does the United Nations define the term? The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...

On Dec. 29, 2023, South Africa instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), requesting that the ICJ rule that Israel is violating the Convention on the Prevention ...

The word “genocide” was first coined by Polish lawyer Raphäel Lemkin in 1944 in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. It consists of the Greek prefix genos, meaning race or tribe, and the Latin ...

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 ...

Accountability for human rights must guide every collaboration in medicine and science, write Rubin Minhas and colleagues ...

A week of celebrations at the United Nations focused on decades-old declarations against genocide and in favor of international human rights has some critics of the world’s governing body decrying the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. On May 5, 2025, International Court of Justice (ICJ, also referred ...