Rohingya Join Virtual Launch of New Burma Exhibition
Rohingya survivors told us their stories. We let them know their messages are being heard around the world.
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Burma’s 2020 Elections and Implications for Future Atrocity Risk
The elections themselves are unlikely to trigger mass atrocities, but they may solidify marginalization of the Rohingya, keeping them at risk of mass atrocities, including genocide.
Practical Prevention: How the Genocide Convention’s Obligation to Prevent Applies to Myanmar
This is the first in a series of reports that explore whether Myanmar (Burma) is complying with its obligation to prevent genocide under the Genocide Convention.
Nowhere to Turn: Rohingya Trapped Between Ongoing Risk of Genocide and Deadly Spread of Coronavirus
As the coronavirus pandemic ravages the globe Rohingya refugees face an impossible predicament.
International Court of Justice Q&A: Gambia v. Myanmar
The International Court of Justice will examine whether Burma has committed genocide, and whether it has failed in its duty to prevent and punish the crime. This Q and A explores questions around the Court's hearings this week to explore potential provisional measures.
Promoting Civil Society Engagement with UN Investigative Mechanisms
The Museum's Ferencz International Justice Initiative shares lessons learned from a new UN investigative model for collecting and storing evidence of atrocity crimes.
State of the World: Mass Killing in 2017
The Early Warning Project uses patterns from past instances of mass killing to forecast where new mass killing episodes are most likely to happen in the future. Each year we update our list of countries experiencing state- and nonstate-led mass killing. The following report compiles our determinations for onsets of mass killing in 2017 and those episodes that we can now judge have ended.
Museum Calls Attention to Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya in Burma at Special Event at US Senate
In an effort to highlight the ongoing persecution of the Rohingya community by the Burmese government, the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) hosted a photo exhibition, Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya, which was on display in the Senate Russell Rotunda from February 12 to 16, 2018.
Simon-Skjodt Center and Fortify Rights Release New Report on Mass Atrocities Against Rohingya
The report finds crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, and mounting evidence of genocide against the Rohingya minority in Burma.
Simon-Skjodt Center Testifies at House Foreign Affairs Hearing on Burma
Simon-Skjodt Center staff briefs the House Foreign Affairs Asia and Pacific subcommittee about crimes perpetrated against the Rohingya, resulting in the flight of more than 400,000 from Burma in the last month.
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