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…
It’s been an important few days for the Rohingya Muslim minority of Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Aug. 25 marked the first anniversary of the Myanmar military’s crackdown on the Rohingya — the killing of thousands, destruction of villages, mass rapes of women and children, and the exodus of nearly 700,000 Rohingya into neighboring Bangladesh. Rallies world-wide…
Aug. 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the start of the Myanmar (also known as Burma) military’s “clearance operations” against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State. While many experts, international organizations operating on the ground, and states have categorized the atrocities that followed as genocide, others have been hesitant to use the term, including the…
When news of the Trump administration’s new Genocide Recovery and Persecution Response Program was announced in late July by Vice President Pence, it sounded good on its face. Pence spoke of the program during the State Department’s inaugural “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom,” an event intended to “focus on concrete outcomes that reaffirm international commitments…
by Susan Freudenheim, executive director, and Ann Strimov Durbin, director of advocacy and grantmaking Tear gas fired into maternity wards. Pro-democracy protesters arrested, tortured, wounded, some even killed. Children attacked with machetes. Villages reduced to ash. These scenes were witnessed in recent days by the Jewish World Watch (JWW) field representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).…
Scores of innocent children died last Thursday in a senseless attack on a school bus in Yemen. On August 9, an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus driving in the busy Dahyan market in Majz District of Saada province, a Houthi stronghold that lies along the border with Saudi Arabia.…
Thirty-two former U.S. diplomats and 11 aid groups penned a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on July 23, urging him not to eliminate an important State Department refugee bureau, warning that the move would be “an error of grave proportion.” The letter emphasizes the importance of the Department of State Bureau of Population,…
Can jumping rope help survivors of genocide and mass atrocities? It can when the Hirschhorn sisters get involved! Following in the footsteps of her older sister Michelle, Ariella Hirschhorn is reviving the fundraiser that Michelle started in 2006 as a “Jump for Darfur.” Ariella’s jump-a thon, called “Jump-4-Syrian-Children”, takes place on June 10, 2018, as…
On Tuesday, May 8, Jewish World Watch (JWW) celebrated its 14th year by honoring Ben Reznik as the 2018 Global Soul award recipient, recognizing his incredible commitment to and service on behalf of our organization. Held in the outdoor courtyard of the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, Global Soul helped raised critical funds…
“Just as my dreams have come true in coming [to the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad] to see this [Solar Cooker] project to fruition, here’s hoping the refugees’ dream of going back to their homes in a safe and secure Darfur happens soon… or at least within our lifetime.” – Rachel Andres, Director, Solar Cooker…