Two weeks ago I was honored to join Jewish World Watch as its Executive Director. I was immediately welcomed by a team of people serving our organization on staff and our board to ensure that people facing genocide and mass atrocities are not forgotten. For the past 16 years, you have helped house displaced Rohingya in Cox’s…
Dear Friend, Following an extensive and thorough search process, the Board of Directors of Jewish World Watch extends an enthusiastic welcome to our new Executive Director, Serena Oberstein! Serena has a rich and varied background leading social justice agencies, managing nonprofit operations, serving as Los Angeles City Ethics Commission President and as Special Assistant to the Mayor…
UPDATE – July 30, 2020 – Jewish World Watch’s fears of mounting atrocities in Darfur have been realized. Just days after publication, on July 25, more than 60 people were reportedly killed and approximately 60 injured during an armed attack in West Darfur. On the same day, attackers killed at least 20 in South Darfur, including children. This is…
A countrywide shutdown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to COVID-19 has led to increased fears of starvation. Amani Tom, our longtime partner in the Congo, said that he is “worried that hunger will kill more people than COVID-19.” That is why, despite the closure of schools, the Jewish World Watch-funded Congo…
Nearly three years after unconscionable atrocities were unleashed upon the Rohingya of Myanmar by their country’s military and security forces, the United States still has not called the crimes perpetrated against this ethnoreligious minority group by their rightful name: Genocide. Jewish World Watch, in coalition with 57 other human rights organizations, sent a petition on July…
In 2014, the Yazidis in Iraq suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. Last year, the Kurds of Syria were subjected to ethnic cleansing during a US-sanctioned Turkish military operation. Now, both of these religious minority groups are facing yet another existential threat at the hands of Turkish forces. Urge the United States to…
Right on the heels of a major advocacy victory for the Uyghur crisis — the signing of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act into law — new evidence suggests that the Uyghurs of China are being subjected to not only crimes against humanity, but also genocide. The Chinese government is implementing draconian measures to severely…
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act is now law! Thanks to advocates like you, on June 17 President Trump signed the legislation, bringing us one step closer to halting the crimes against humanity China is actively perpetrating against the Uyghur ethnic and religious minority group of East Turkistan (also known as Xinjiang), China. This legislation marks…
Mass atrocity crimes — genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity — occur when civilians are targeted in an illegal, systematic and widespread way. While they can be perpetrated by non-state actors, mass atrocities are most often committed when a state’s muscle is turned against its own citizens. Jewish World Watch’s mandate is to raise…
“Enough is enough,” is the cry reverberating throughout the United States in response to the murder of George Floyd. “Enough is enough” echoes the founding principle of Jewish World Watch – “Never again,” to targeted killings of people for their race or ethnicity. We have all learned through pervasive videos over the past three decades,…