by Sentinel Project | Nov 28, 2010 | Team Announcements
On 15 November 2010, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and Mémorial de la Shoah co-hosted the International Symposium on Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Paris, France. Samantha Power, a special assistant to President Barack Obama on human...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 25, 2010 | Team Announcements
The Inter Press Service (IPS) has published an article about the role of hate speech and propaganda in fueling genocide, in which our executive director Christopher Tuckwood is quoted. This article follows on the heels of a recent United Nations event on “Dangerous...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 20, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Information has just become available through a Persian language blog that Iranian intelligence agents raided Baha’is in the town of Nour on 3 November 2010. This attack occurred while the targets were celebrating the Baha’i Feast of Qudrat. All people in...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 19, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The Iranian human rights organization RAHANA has provided a summary of anti-Baha’i rights violations in the second week of November. Four events from last week highlight the ongoing persecution of Baha’is, including arrests, imprisonment, and denial of education. Most...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 17, 2010 | Team Announcements
The Toronto Emergency Management Symposium is an annual event where representatives from Canadian and American emergency services, emergency management agencies, private companies, and NGOs come together to discuss the latest issues in their field. The Sentinel...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 13, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
We are pleased to announce the re-release of our May 2009 “Preliminary Assessment: The Threat of Genocide to the Baha’is of Iran,” which has now been redesigned in a new format. This document provides excellent background information to the new 2010...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 11, 2010 | General News
Survival International, an NGO dedicated to defending the rights and ensuring the survival of indigenous peoples around the world, has posted the video below. Called “The Gunmen,” the video features members of the Guarani group living in Mato Grosso do...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 10, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The Iranian human rights organization RAHANA has provided a summary of anti-Baha’i rights violations in the first week of November. Four events in this excerpt highlight the ongoing judicial harassment and imprisonment of Baha’is for charges related to...
by Sentinel Project | Nov 7, 2010 | Team Announcements
We are proud to be recognized in the 2010 GPN International Directory of Holocaust and Genocide Organizations as one of 4 organizations from Canada. To read more about this Directory, you can visit http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/.
by Sentinel Project | Nov 5, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The Sentinel Project is proud to announce the release of a new report on our Iranian Baha’i situation-of-concern. Unfortunately, this “Supplementary Report: The Threat of Genocide to the Baha’is of Iran” does not contain good news, as it...
