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While a peace accord was reached in February 2020 to end civil war in South Sudan, the agreement remains extremely fragile and needs international support to hold together Righting the...
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The Witness Who Stayed

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Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

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Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution

Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution

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The Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution embraces a philosophy of peace and reconciliation to ensure that men, women, and especially children in many violent conflict-ridden countries have hope for a better and more promising future

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Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution

In this searching analysis, Alon Ben-Meir, President of the Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution (IHCR), makes an unsparing case: Israel's conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide, and its crimes against humanity in the West Bank constitute creeping ethnic cleansing — together a moral and humanitarian collapse of historic proportions. Drawing on reports and documented cases from international organizations and human rights groups, he lays out the evidence: civilian killings, the throttling of humanitarian aid, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, forced displacement, alleged torture, home demolitions, and unchecked settler violence.
But Ben-Meir presses further, asking how a nation arrives here. He traces the machinery of dehumanization, decades of occupation, collective trauma, and unbroken impunity that erode moral restraint and turn atrocity into routine. The devastation, he insists, cannot be measured in military terms alone. It must be weighed in what it will cost for generations — for Palestinian civilians, for Israeli society itself, and for any future in which the two peoples might live side by side.
His conclusion is a summons. Ben-Meir calls on Israelis and Jews in the diaspora to look directly at what is being done in their name and to refuse the shelter of silence. Accountability, the recognition of Palestinian humanity, and an end to these abuses are not concessions — they are the price of justice, reconciliation, and any Israeli-Palestinian peace that can last.
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In this searching analysis, Alon Ben-Meir, President of the Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution (IHCR), makes an unsparing case: Israels conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide, and its crimes against humanity in the West Bank constitute creeping ethnic cleansing — together a moral and humanitarian collapse of historic proportions. Drawing on reports and documented cases from international organizations and human rights groups, he lays out the evidence: civilian killings, the throttling of humanitarian aid, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, forced displacement, alleged torture, home demolitions, and unchecked settler violence.
But Ben-Meir presses further, asking how a nation arrives here. He traces the machinery of dehumanization, decades of occupation, collective trauma, and unbroken impunity that erode moral restraint and turn atrocity into routine. The devastation, he insists, cannot be measured in military terms alone. It must be weighed in what it will cost for generations — for Palestinian civilians, for Israeli society itself, and for any future in which the two peoples might live side by side.
His conclusion is a summons. Ben-Meir calls on Israelis and Jews in the diaspora to look directly at what is being done in their name and to refuse the shelter of silence. Accountability, the recognition of Palestinian humanity, and an end to these abuses are not concessions — they are the price of justice, reconciliation, and any Israeli-Palestinian peace that can last.
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El Salvador is sliding deeper into authoritarianism as President Nayib Bukele’s government intensifies its crackdown on journalists, activists, lawyers, and human rights defenders.
One year after her arrest, prominent anti-corruption lawyer Ruth López remains imprisoned under judicial secrecy. Her detention has become a powerful symbol of the country’s shrinking democratic space and weakening judicial independence. López investigated alleged government corruption and documented human rights abuses under El Salvador’s state of emergency. Since her arrest, other independent voices have faced intimidation, detention, or exile. When those who expose abuses are silenced and dissent is treated as a threat, fear begins to replace freedom.
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China has industrialized repression. In Xinjiang, up to a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims were swept into camps for prayer, beards, or a relative abroad; survivors describe forced sterilization, rape, torture, and children taken into state boarding schools while parents disappeared. Mosques and graveyards were razed; detainee labor threads through global supply chains, so the world wears the coercion. In Tibet, monasteries are surveilled, language instruction is replaced by Mandarin, and children are placed in residential schools that sever them from their culture. Facial recognition, DNA collection, and informant networks make privacy a memory. The purpose is not merely obedience. It is the erasure of a people's identity across generations, which international law calls by its gravest names. Trade cannot be conducted as if none of this were happening. ... See MoreSee Less

China has industrialized repression. In Xinjiang, up to a million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims were swept into camps for prayer, beards, or a relative abroad; survivors describe forced sterilization, rape, torture, and children taken into state boarding schools while parents disappeared. Mosques and graveyards were razed; detainee labor threads through global supply chains, so the world wears the coercion. In Tibet, monasteries are surveilled, language instruction is replaced by Mandarin, and children are placed in residential schools that sever them from their culture. Facial recognition, DNA collection, and informant networks make privacy a memory. The purpose is not merely obedience. It is the erasure of a peoples identity across generations, which international law calls by its gravest names. Trade cannot be conducted as if none of this were happening.
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