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 ...

Genocide happens very rarely. Or all the time. What seems like genocide to you may not be even close by my standards. “Genocide” has become an endlessly elastic code word for everything bad that ...

Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said military action is not a legally sufficient answer to accusations of genocide at a Harvard Law School talk Wednesday afternoon. An ...

First, you don’t get to surrender in a genocide. The Holocaust is the history of a people who weren’t even at war with the ...

WORCESTER – The Worcester Armenian community is grateful that President Biden Saturday became the first U.S. president to officially recognize the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire more ...

WASHINGTON — China’s abuses of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang violate every article in the United Nations’ definition of genocide, a new policy report published on Monday claims. The 55-page report from The ...

"The effort to exploit the accusation of genocide against Israel empties the term of its power and significance," writes the ...

The legal definition was established by the U.N. in 1948. LONDON -- The world's largest association of academic scholars studying genocide passed a resolution saying Israel's "policies and actions" in ...

Our readers continue the debate over state Sen. Scott Wiener's statement that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza constitutes ...

Russia has been forced to deny allegations that its troops committed genocide in Ukraine after images emerged of mass graves and civilian bodies in the town of Bucha. Is Russia committing genocide in ...

The recent slaughter in Darfur, coupled with the popularity of the movie, Hotel Rwanda, and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz bring into sharp focus the question of genocide. Darfur, ...