The legal definition of genocide imposes a demanding standard. Not every mass atrocity qualifies, even when the scale of ...

So what are the stakes of calling an armed conflict a genocide? Even as a ceasefire agreement takes hold, the term continues to come up in relation to the war in Gaza. Last month, a U.N. commission ...

Eighty years ago today, a liberation took place at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp in southern Poland. Soviet troops arrived to free the survivors, but by then, over 1 million people — the vast ...

Debates over how to describe conflicts in Gaza, Myanmar and elsewhere are channeling a controversy as old as the word itself. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan Supported by By Linda Kinstler Linda ...

Ever since Raphael Lemkin heard Winston Churchill’s August 1941 broadcast on the BBC, in which the prime minister declared, “The whole of Europe has been wrecked ...

As an American, I share the deep sorrow over my country’s complicity in this horrific crime against humanity. Ad Policy Members of the Armenian community hold flags and placards during a rally to ...