Last Saturday, I had the privilege of attending the Convention on Myanmar’s Ongoing Genocide, organized by Jewish World Watch’s long-time partner, the Burmese American Muslims Association (BAMA). BAMA asked me to say a few words and when I arrived I was treated not only like a keynote speaker, but as a member of the family.…
The bodies of two children, a two-year old boy and a newborn girl, were dug up Sept. 16 from under the rubble left in the wake of the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes in a civilian neighborhood in Saada province. The children were from an internally displaced family who had recently relocated to Saada’s Marran district after…
The holiday of Yom Kippur offers a time for reflection, a time to see ourselves as inextricable from a larger community, sharing responsibility not only for our own lives, but also those of others. I think of the concept of shared responsibility often in our work at Jewish World Watch — not in the promises…
Our small, extraordinarily efficient partners bringing hospital supplies into Syria are likely your best option for getting aid directly where you want it to go – to the doctors inside Idlib, and the people whose lives they are saving. We say this in the wake of an article published yesterday by IRIN, a respected news…
Myanmar, also known as Burma, continues to make international headlines … and not in a good way. Almost daily, there are developments that confirm the country’s utter disregard for human rights and humanitarian law. Despite consistent outrage from global media, scholars, leading organizations, and protesters, the United States has offered little in response. So far,…
Jewish World Watch received upsetting news last week that Noura Hussein is in trouble once again. Her execution is not off the table, after all. Noura, a 19-year old Sudanese girl, was sentenced to death in May for fatally stabbing her 35-year old husband, Abdel Rahman Mohamed Hammad, in self-defense. She had been forced to…