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EU condemns Darfur violence and warns of ‘another genocide’
FILE PHOTO: Chadian cart owners transport belongings of Sudanese people who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, while crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
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Palestinian human rights groups ask war crimes court to probe Israel over genocide allegations
People walk past destroyed buildings in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 10, 2023, during ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinian doctor from Gaza receives honorary degree from Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian-Canadian physician and internationally recognized human rights and peace activist gives remarks after receiving an honorary doctorate at Toronto Metropolitan University’s fall convocation in Toronto, on Thursday Oct. 12, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Russia using genocide ‘lie’ as pretext to destroy, Ukraine tells World Court
Ukraine's agent Anton Korynevych, ambassador-at-large of the Ukraine Foreign Ministry, addresses the judges at the World Court, as the Russian delegation, right, listens to Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, which resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Russia calls on International Court of Justice to throw out Ukraine genocide case
Ukraine's agent and ambassador-at-large of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs Anton Korynevych, second left, and Oksana Zolotaryova, Director General for International Law of the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, left, wait for judges to enter the World Court where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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World Court to hear Russian objections to Ukraine genocide case
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo
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Breaking the silence about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide
Abdullah Al Imran
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A year after Russia’s crimes in Bucha came to light, Ukraine marches toward justice for its civilians
Residents of Bucha qttend commemoration ceremony devoted to the Annyvessary of the liberation of Bucha from Russian occupation. Bucha, Ukraine #1 Mar 2023
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ICC expected to launch war crimes cases against Russians over Ukraine invasion, source says
FILE- In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, the International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. President Donald Trump has lobbed a broadside attack against the International Criminal Court. He's authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan without U.S. consent. The executive order Trump signed on Thursday marks his administration’s latest attack against international organizations, treaties and agreements that do not hew to its policies. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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Canada, Netherlands to intervene in Ukraine genocide case against Russia at international court
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Eva Plevier
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In Texas, members of LGBTQ community arm themselves to fight right-wing extremists
Salem, a transgender activist in Dallas, is photographed Oct. 4, 2022.
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Recognize genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, experts urge Canadian committee
FILE - People walk from a rural area towards a nearby town where a food distribution operated by the Relief Society of Tigray was taking place, near the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Ethiopia's warring sides have formally agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a 2-year conflict, negotiators for the parties announced Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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Conference partly funded by National Defence includes speaker who denied China committed genocide
FILE - Students training to become imams recite verses from the Quran at the Xinjiang Islamic Institute in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region, during a government organized visit for foreign journalists on April 21, 2021. China has responded furiously to a United Nations report on alleged human rights abuses in its northwestern Xinjiang region targeting Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic minorities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously
Leah Gazan rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 21, 2021. The New Democrat member of Parliament says she will be holding the government accountable after her motion calling on the federal government to recognize Canada's residential schools as genocide passed with unanimous consent.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Surge of dehumanizing hate speech points to mounting risk of mass atrocities in northern Ethiopia, experts say
An armed militia stands next to a house damaged during the fight between the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces, in Kasagita town, Afar region, Ethiopia, February 25, 2022. Picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
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Sajjan likens Russian missile strikes on Ukraine cities to Holodomor famine
Canadian Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, at the Canadian ambassador residence, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Hussein Malla
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Long-awaited Rwanda genocide trial starts despite suspect’s boycott
THE HAGUE - Defence lawyer Emmanuel Altit (C) of Felicien Kabuga in court at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) in The Hague. KOEN VAN WEEL/Pool via REUTERS
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U.N. investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information
Protesters take part in a demonstration escorted by fighters against the military coup in Sagaing Township in the Sagaing Division of Myanmar on September 7, 2022. - In Myanmar's northwest Sagaing region, dozens of local "Peoples Defence Forces" are fighting the military and attempting to overturn the coup it carried out last year. Armed with little more than homemade weapons and knowledge of the local terrain, some of these groups have surprised the military with their effectiveness, analysts say. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Pope’s comments on genocide marked a turning point for Canada
Cassidy Caron
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The Pope can do more: Release records, return artifacts, remain accountable
Adam Olsen
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After Pope called residential schools ‘genocide,’ House of Commons should too: NDP MP
Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after visiting Canada, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool
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Residential-school survivors hope Pope’s acknowledgment of genocide will finally end debate
Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after visiting Canada, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool
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Pope Francis says genocide took place in Canada’s residential schools
Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022,
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International Court of Justice rejects Myanmar’s objections to Rohingya genocide case
FILE- A Rohingya Muslim man, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, builds a shelter for his family, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Judges at the International Court of Justice rule Friday July 22, 2022, on whether a case brought by Gambia alleging that Myanmar is committing genocide against the Rohingya can go ahead. Myanmar argues that the court does not have jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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Ukraine investigating forcible deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide
FILE - People survey the destruction amid the smoldering remains of a shopping center in Kyiv, Ukraine, following a shelling by Russian forces on March 21, 2022. Relentless shelling, bombing and airstrikes have reduced large swaths of many cities and towns to rubble in the 100 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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Ukrainian victims of sexual violence need reproductive health care, Minister Harjit Sajjan says
International Development Minister and Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada Minister Harjit Sajjan rises during Question Period, Wednesday, March 23, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Serious risk of genocide in Ukraine as Russia breaches international treaty, report says
FILE Ñ Bodies are loaded onto a truck to be taken for further forensic investigation, in Bucha, Ukraine, April 12, 2022. The town, not far from the capital of Kyiv, is where the warÕs worst atrocities have been discovered, and as the days pass the full scope of the terror and butchery only grows. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
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The past is present: What role should Canada’s historians play in reconciliation? The question has proved surprisingly controversial
Ira Basen
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Parliament votes unanimously to declare Russia’s war on Ukraine as genocide
FILE PHOTO: SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Forensic technicians exhume the bodies of civilians who Ukrainian officials say were killed during Russia’s invasion and then buried in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo
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Patrick Brown dives dangerously into diaspora politics
Konrad Yakabuski
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Trudeau welcomes talk of Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a media statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Justin Trudeau says it is "absolutely right" that people are describing Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. The prime minister says there are official, legal procedures for determining whether a genocide is occurring. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
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Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities in Bucha
A mass grave on Sunday, April 3, 2022, near an Orthodox church in Bucha, Ukraine. With Russian forces retreating, Ukrainians in Bucha are finding scores of bodies in yards and on the roads amid mounting evidence of intentional and indiscriminate killings of civilians. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
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Biden administration rules Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers stand next to military vehicles as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo/File Photo
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International Court of Justice orders Russia to cease hostilities in Ukraine
People demonstrate in support of the Ukraine outside the United Nations' top court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, where judges where expected to rule on a request by Ukraine to order Russia to halt its devastating invasion. But it remains to be seen if Moscow would comply with any order made by the International Court of Justice. Russia snubbed a hearing last week at which lawyers for Ukraine accused the country's powerful neighbor of "resorting to tactics reminiscent of medieval siege warfare" in its brutal assault. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Russia fails to appear at International Court of Justice as Ukraine argues invasion was built on a lie
THE HAGUE NETHERLANDS - MARCH 07: In this handout provided by the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ), public hearings take place on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by the Ukraine in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court on the first day of hearings at the Peace Palace on March 7, 2022 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Oral arguments were presented by Ukraine. Ukraine is petitioning the ICJ to classify Russia's invasion as a genocide and issue an injunction under the UN Convention against Genocide. (Photo by Frank van Beek/ICJ via Getty Images)