So what are the stakes of calling an armed conflict a genocide? Even as a ceasefire agreement takes hold, the term continues to come up in relation to the war in Gaza. Last month, a U.N. commission ...

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 ...

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As world leaders gather in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly, a growing number of experts are calling on diplomats to address what they describe as genocide and famine in Gaza. Israel ...

As Israeli forces launched a major ground offensive in Gaza City on Tuesday, a United Nations investigative commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The ...

There is a lot of violent crime in South Africa. There is not a genocide against White farmers there. Claims of genocide can sometimes be difficult to adjudicate. This claim is easy. The facts show ...

But also, people considering the element of 'intent to destroy' that is part of the U.N. definition of genocide seem to find it more consistently now, in the context of a man-made famine, than they ...

Majd Al-Waheidi is the digital editor on Morning Edition, where she brings the show's journalism to online audiences. Previously, Al-Waheidi was a reporter for the New York Times in the Gaza Strip, ...