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The awful levelling of genocide in Gaudium et Spes
It is a disturbing irony that one of the most celebrated ecclesiastical documents of the 20th century, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World or Gaudium et Spes (1965), would, in ...
The UK’s only out transgender judge has called for independent genocide prevention groups to investigate the “systemic oppression” of trans people. Retired high court judge Dr Victoria McCloud asked ...
The country's investigative committee accused the archbishop and 13 others of plotting to overthrow the government of Prime ...
The country's investigative committee accused the archbishop and 13 others of plotting to overthrow the government of Prime ...
A struggle between church and government continues to deepen in Armenia, with one bishop in custody and crowds preventing a ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - A ceremonial event took place at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Tsitsernakaberd on June 24 to honor renowned jurist and human rights advocate Raphael Lemkin on his birthday.
Lemkin, who was an advisor to the Nuremberg court, is quoted as saying, ‘The Allies decided their case against a past Hitler but refused to envisage future Hitlers.
Raphael Lemkin, the Jewish legal scholar who coined the term genocide, began developing the concept in the 1930s, long before the full extent of the Holocaust was known.
What is 'genocide'? The word genocide -- derived from the Greek word "genos", for race or tribe, and "cide", from the Latin for "to kill" -- was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin, a Polish Jew ...
The atrocity at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered, has been ruled as an act of genocide. Skrewt25 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA ...
In 1953, Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine. In it, Lemkin spoke not only about the Holodomor — the man ...