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'Hotel Rwanda' hero Paul Rusesabagina has been convicted of terrorism charges
The former hotel manager is credited with saving the lives of over 1,000 people during the1994 Rwan…
Jake Epstein,Kelly McLaughlin
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Facebook's new ban on Holocaust denial won't extend to other genocides
Facebook did not explain why it was not applying its new ban on Holocaust denial to other genocides…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Rwandan millionaire accused of funding 1994 genocide was arrested in Paris after spending decades on the run
Felicien Kabuga, the most wanted man in Rwanda for decades, had a $5 million US bounty for his arre…
Canela López
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Facebook banned Holocaust denial from its platform in October. Anti-hate groups now want the social media giant to block posts denying the Armenian genocide.
The Ottoman Empire killed 1.5 million Armenians in the Armenian genocide. However, Turkey still fal…
Isabella Jibilian
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Alabama's new anti-abortion law compares abortion to the Holocaust and other genocides
"All of these are widely acknowledged to have been crimes against humanity. By comparison, more tha…
Grace Panetta
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Rwanda is releasing dissident Paul Rusesabagina from prison, the government says. The hero whose story inspired 'Hotel Rwanda' saved over 1,000 people from being massacred in the 1990s.
Paul Rusesabagina was convicted in 2021 on terrorism-related charges, a move widely condemned by hu…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Sheryl Sandberg says rape should never be a tool of war and the horrors of the Hamas terror attacks can't be swept under the rug
"The silence on these war crimes is deafening," the former tech executive said in a opinion essay p…
Jake Epstein
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Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen
A new report from the UN found evidence that women in the Kherson region of Ukraine have been victi…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Family YouTubers with 13 million subscribers posted a controversial 'documentary' that compared abortion to the Holocaust
The LaBrant Family released a video titled "Abortion. (documentary)" on April 9 and has since faced…
Charissa Cheong
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Twitter follows Facebook in banning Holocaust denial
"Attempts to deny or diminish" violent historical events, including the Holocaust, will be banned f…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Olympic wrestler and Ukraine's first Black parliament member Zhan Beleniuk says Ukraine is 'not a racist country'
The athlete and politician made history in Ukraine as an Olympian and an MP. Now, he's standing fir…
Dana Givens
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Photo Essay: As we celebrate the first malaria vaccine, remembering the epidemic's staggering toll
Photographer Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi documented the malaria epidemic's toll during one of the worst …
Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi
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How one author unlocked the secrets of one of Africa's most oppressive dictatorships
AS: I expect people I knew in Rwanda to make up things about my private life, about the private liv…
Armin Rosen
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Forget Champagne and infinity pools: High-end travelers today want to make an impact on the places they visit, according to a luxury safari operator
Wilderness Safaris, which was founded in 1983, operates customizable safaris in seven African count…
Katie Warren
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A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death?
Facebook's "trusted partners" in Ethiopia say the platform was slow to reply to urgent hate speech …
Tekendra Parmar
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British politicians found a way to force 127 countries to help fight against ISIS
Political pundits have said, for example in this paper from Harvard University, that it was only un…
Lianna Brinded
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Hundreds of Silicon Valley engineers are pledging not to help Trump build a Muslim database
"We have educated ourselves on the history of threats like these, and on the roles that technology …
Rob Price
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Trump and John Kelly joked about the suspected drone attack on Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro
Fernando Cutz, who was acting senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the National Securi…
Christopher Woody
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Trump sparks all-around backlash by calling some unauthorized immigrants 'animals' - here's the full context of what he said
"ICE is the only law enforcement agency that cannot use our databases to find the bad guys," Sherif…
John Haltiwanger
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The world hasn't been this deadly since the end of the Cold War
"Due to the escalation of several conflicts and the extreme violence in Syria, the number of battle…