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Six Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide
April 16, 2013
This week we remember and commemorate the 19th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide -- an unspeakable atrocity where one million Rwandans were murdered in a three-month genocidal onslaught that began April 7th, 1994. Indeed, what makes the Rwandan genocide so unspeakable was not only the horror of the genocide itself, but the fact that it was preventable. No one can say that we did not know -- we knew, but did not act. More »
Never Again: 6 Enduring Lessons of the Holocaust
April 10, 2013
When writing on the Holocaust, I am reminded of the early teachings of my parents -- the profundity and pain of which I realized only years later -- that there are things in Jewish history (in human history) too terrible to be believed, but not too terrible to have happened. More »
Canada Should Help Stop Chinese Torture
March 26, 2013
With Xi Jinping assuming the Presidency of China, some have expressed hope that his tenure will bring reform and change, particularly in the promotion and protection of human rights. At the same time, China's most recent Nobel Peace Prize winter -- Liu Xiaobo -- languishes in prison, and has yet to receive the prize awarded to him two years ago. More »
Why Russia’s Attempt to Convict a Dead Man Matters
March 26, 2013
Today -- as though more evidence were required to demonstrate the upside-down state of human rights and the rule of law in Russia -- the country's prosecutors resume their efforts to convict a dead whistleblower of the very corruption he exposed. The posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky has properly been called "grim comedy" by a group of French legislators, and it is only the most recent -- and patently absurd -- element of the Russian government's strategy to cover up fraud, theft, and human rights violations committed by its own high-ranking officials. More »