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Reliving Trauma Again and Again in Pursuit of Justice
Reliving Trauma Again and Again in Pursuit of Justice
A Yezidi woman documents her own people’s testimony about genocide.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Oct 6, 2023
How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
February’s massive earthquake brought already grievous suffering to a new level in northwest Syria, an area held by the opposition to…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 14, 2023
What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
And why what is happening in China may be genocide
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Feb 14, 2022
“It’s All on Us”: Young Artists Work for Peace in South Sudan
“It’s All on Us”: Young Artists Work for Peace in South Sudan
Jacob Bul Bior was a young boy when he joined a club that defended children’s rights in the refugee camp where he lived, in Kenya. Now 33…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Feb 11, 2022
Giving Children “Hope that They Can Have a Chance at a Bright Future”
Giving Children “Hope that They Can Have a Chance at a Bright Future”
When asked what they want to be when they grow up, the children replied, “a doctor, an engineer, a chef, a painter, a teacher.” Others said…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 19, 2021
Abducted by the Chinese Government: The Family Members Who Vanished Overnight
Abducted by the Chinese Government: The Family Members Who Vanished Overnight
Days after activist Rushan Abbas spoke publicly for the first time about the disappearance of her husband’s entire family in China, her…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Nov 10, 2020
Parents Like All Others
Parents Like All Others
Rohingya mothers and fathers will try everything to protect their children from harm, which has now included a genocide and a global…
US Holocaust Museum
Jun 19, 2020
Calling Out Syria’s Crimes
Calling Out Syria’s Crimes
A Voice for the Victims
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jul 26, 2019
Journalists Who Go Where “Nobody Else Will”
Journalists Who Go Where “Nobody Else Will”
Simona Foltyn and Jason Patinkin are some of the few journalists reporting on the ongoing conflict in South Sudan. As fellows of the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jul 26, 2019
Burma’s Rohingya Still Under Threat
Burma’s Rohingya Still Under Threat
In December, the Museum announced its finding that compelling evidence suggests the Burmese military committed genocide against the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 27, 2019
Syria: An Unending Crisis
Syria: An Unending Crisis
Since peaceful protests began in 2011, the Syrian regime has attacked its own citizens, leaving more than 500,000 dead and millions more…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 27, 2019
Syria: A Mother’s Plea, A Shred of Evidence, and a Prosecutor’s Commitment
Syria: A Mother’s Plea, A Shred of Evidence, and a Prosecutor’s Commitment
Since 2011, the Assad regime, supported by Russia and Iran, has waged a war against its own citizens, killing as many as half a million…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 9, 2019
In Conversation with Colonel Adam Oler
In Conversation with Colonel Adam Oler
Air Force Colonel Adam Oler, a judge advocate for more than two decades, serves in the Department of Security Studies at the National…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 9, 2019
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