genocide
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Pillay’s career includes challenging apartheid in South Africa and serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish legal precedents recognizing sexual violence as an act of genocide.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Based in the Dutch city of The Hague, the ICC tries individuals suspected of the world's worst offences -- war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Pillay's work had been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted", said the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The ICC, based in The Hague, is heir to the Nuremberg tribunals that prosecuted Nazi war criminals after World War II and special courts that held trials after the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan genocide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The museum focuses on stereotypes, prejudice, genocide, the history of intolerance.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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It also commemorates the millions of people outside the Jewish faith who were murdered through Nazi persecution, and those targeted in more recent genocides.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
So far, the center has speakers lined up from the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides and is working to include Native voices.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
Kim, 47, knew that anyone there of his age or older had survived one of the most brutal genocides of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The question underpinning his statement remains ever relevant: In the face of wars, genocides and other atrocities, does art-making serve any purpose?
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
She said a local gallery in Rochester, called the Visual Studies Workshop, had been showing photography from genocides around the world, and perhaps we could do an exhibit there.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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