On This Day: U.S. Fully Adopts Genocide Convention
Twenty-two years ago today – November 4, 1988 – the 40-year Senate battle over the ratification of the United Nations’ Genocide Convention came to an end ...
Event: Our Walls Bear Witness
In a special event next Monday at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the focus will return to the people whose lives and way of life are at stake in the lead-up to Sudan's referendum and after ...
Anniversary: The World’s First Genocide Conviction
Twelve years ago this week (October 2, 1998), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, or ICTR, issued a historic sentencing that delivered punishment for the first conviction of genocide under international law ...
