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Responding to Genocide Today

How Will You Meet the Challenge of Genocide?

How Will You Meet the Challenge of Genocide?

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Watch eyewitness testimony from Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur. Explore a timeline on the concept and law of genocide. Find out who is at risk today. View hundreds of photos from Sudan, the Congo, Chechnya, and elsewhere. Read stories about people like you making a difference. Write your own pledge to take action. Visit the new cutting-edge installation From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of GenocideMore »

World Is Witness

World Is Witness

Our staff and guest contributors bring you updates from the field, eyewitness testimony, photographs, interactive maps, and more. Witness for yourself here on our web site and inside Google Earth. More »

New Data Added to Crisis in Darfur

New Data Added to Crisis in Darfur

New data to our Google Earth initiative, Crisis in Darfur, shows that more than 3,300 villages have been damaged or destroyed in Darfur, primarily between 2003-2005. This is more than twice the number previously identified and strengthens the evidence of a vast, targeted campaign of destruction against civilians. More »

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AU Panel Outlines Way Forward for Darfur and Sudan

After spending more than 40 days in Darfur over the course of six months and engaging in over 2,700 consultations with people across Darfur, the African Union Panel on Darfur has delivered its final report. More »


Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast

Quiet Genocide: Insights on Guatemala

November 5, 2009

Etelle Higonnet is the editor of Quiet Genocide, a new collection that includes a translation of the materials on genocide in the Historical Clarification Commission report on Guatemala. She speaks about the book and how it increases our knowledge about Guatemala and genocide. More »


Genocide Prevention Task Force

Co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, the Genocide Prevention Task Force released its final report on December 8, 2008. More »