Malnourished Sudanese childre are fed at a camp for people displaced by the war in Darfur in June, 2004. CNN
Stop atrocities before they start By Michael Shank and Madeline Rose, CNN Opinion 26 April 2013
One year ago this week, President Barack Obama launched the Atrocities Prevention Board to find ways to get ahead of the kind of crisis we're seeing in Syria, and the kind we witnessed in Darfur and Rwanda. The board's aim is to shift U.S. foreign policy away from responding to atrocities to preventing them; to oversee the development of prevention and response policy, and to deal with urgent situations as they arise. The board is under the chairmanship of the National Security Council and is a result of a decades-long effort by the global anti-genocide community. It marks its one-year anniversary 10 years after the genocide began in Darfur, and nearly 20 years after Rwanda. (read more)
Crowdsourced hate speech database could spot early signs of genocide By Kadhim Shubber, wired.co.uk 05 April 2013
The use of hate speech to dehumanise people is widely recognised as one of the first steps towards genocide. From Rwanda, where Hutu radio stations blared out propaganda referring to Tutsis as "cockroaches", to Nazi Germany, where Jews were likened to a disease that needed to be cleansed from society, hate speech has been a clear warning sign of terrible things to come. Hatebase, a new crowdsourced database of multilingual hate speech from The Sentinel Project, is an attempt to create a repository of words and phrases that researchers can use to detect the early stages of genocide. (read more)
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July-September 2007 "Malthusian Pressures, Genocide, and Ecocide," by Richter, Elihu, D., Rony Blum, Tamar Berman, Gregory H. Stanton, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Vol. 13/No. 3.
July 2004 "Kofi Annan speech" announcing UN plan for genocide prevention including a Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
July 2004 "UN News Release:" Kofi Annan chooses human rights advocate, lawyer and former political prisoner from Argentina Juan E. Mendez as the first Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. (July 2004)
2004 "International Campaign Proposal:" Create a United Nations Genocide Prevention Focal Point and Genocide Prevention Center. by Dr. Gregory Stanton. For the Stockholm International Forum 2004: "Preventing Genocide: Threats and Responsibilities."
July 2002 "Press Release: On the Formulation of the International Criminal Court" The International Campaign to End Genocide welcomes the International Criminal Court as an important step to prevent genocide, and calls for creation of a Center for Genocide Prevention at the United Nations
Genocide Watch is the Coordinator of the International Alliance to End Genocide P.O. Box 809, Washington, D.C. 20044 USA. Phone: 1-202-643-1405 E-mail:communications@genocidewatch.org
