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Genocide

December 2025

A promotional image for Khalid Abdalla’s solo show, Nowhere, billed as a highlight of Sydney Festival in 2026.

Sydney Festival sticks with pro-Palestine headliner after Bondi

Actor Khalid Abdalla accuses Israel of “genocide” in Gaza but organisers say his show will be presented with “due regard for the wellbeing of audiences”.

November 2025

Protesters gather outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on November 6. Instead of heeding the warnings of experts, the international community has allowed the RSF to spend 18 months besieging the city and trapping residents within.

After Sudan massacres, the world said ‘never again’ – then did nothing

About 200,000 civilians rare trapped in El-Fasher, and hundreds of thousands in a refugee camp are at risk. All options must be on the table to protect them.

A baby who fled El Fasher with family receives treatment at a camp in nearby Tawila.

Inside one of this century’s worst ethnic massacres

Sudanese militiamen moved through a Darfur hospital ward by ward and killed hundreds. More people may have died since the start of November than in the entire Gaza war.

August 2025

Children of all ages run amok in the camp without any semblance of formal tuition.

Where there’s no debate about genocide — and no response, either

Sudan is probably the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis today, with at least 12 million people forced to flee their homes. No one is doing anything about it.

August 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime minister’s office in Jerusalem

Netanyahu’s government has brought Palestinian recognition upon Israel

The hard line taken by Benjamin Netanyahu has left Western governments with few alternatives and helped make the case for Palestinian recognition for Australia.

September 2024

Sudanese children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border.

A genocide is under way in Sudan yet the world is silent

When an Arab militia rampaged through Maryam Suleiman’s village in the Darfur region of Sudan last year, “so many men were killed, like grains of sand”.

January 2024

Pro-Israel demonstrators march towards the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands.

Germany invokes the Holocaust in defence of Israel

Germany has emerged as one of Israel’s most vehement supporters after South Africa brought a charge of genocide.

June 2021

Orange shirts made in honour of the 215 residential school children whose remains were discovered in Kamloops in May.

More than 600 bodies found at Indigenous school in Canada

The discovery is the second site of unmarked graves found in as many months, a legacy of Canada’s effort to assimilate Indigenous people and their culture.

April 2021

During last year’s presidential campaign, Biden promised to “recognise the Armenian Genocide and make universal human rights a top priority”.

Biden tells Erdogan he’ll call Armenian massacre a genocide

President Joe Biden would be the first US president in 40 years to publicly recognise the 1915 mass killings as a genocide.