Jewish World Watch (JWW) came into being as a response to the Darfur genocide. The Darfuris remain a vital cornerstone of our work. We continue to monitor and support the refugees living in camps in Chad 15 years after fleeing their homes in western Sudan, as well as the internally displaced persons in the Darfur…
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…
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…
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…
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.…