by Sentinel Project | Oct 23, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The International Federation for Human Rights has released a report outlining Iranian government discrimination towards ethnic and religious minorities, including Baha’is. Read the report here.
by Sentinel Project | Oct 2, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
Iran Press Watch has conveyed a report from an Iranian opposition website that Jinous Sobhani, a Baha’i and former aide to Shirin Ebadi, has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Iranian court. Sobhani was once the secretary of the Human Rights Defenders...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 21, 2010 | General News
New technologies and media are central to the Sentinel Project’s mission. However, just as these developments can help to prevent genocide, they can also be used to perpetrate it by inciting hatred and organizing violence. In her article “Putting Hate...
by Taneem Talukdar | Sep 20, 2010 | General News
As our research team continues to develop the risk assessment process, our engineering team has been working on putting together the core software platform to support the final anticipated process. This is a quick update about progress being made on this. From a...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 18, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
In a surprising development, reports out of Iran indicate that the harsh sentences handed down to seven Baha’i leaders last month have been reduced. Though the reason for this move is not yet known, lawyers representing the seven were informed two days ago that...
by Sentinel Project | Sep 18, 2010 | General News
The Sentinel Project early warning system (EWS) is a two-stage process. First, it examines the structural characteristics of a society that predispose it to genocide. Second, it monitors ongoing events to track the development of genocidal processes. For the last...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 27, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released a statement today urging Iran to counter the discrimination that its minorities face everyday. While the Committee focuses on racial and ethnic prejudices, the statement also mentioned the...
by Sentinel Project | Aug 10, 2010 | Iran, Situations of Concern
The top seven leaders of the Iranian Baha’i community are now reported to have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. They were arrested in May 2008 and held without charge for 18 months before being charged with such crimes as “propaganda against the...
by Taneem Talukdar | Aug 5, 2010 | General News
In a previous post we discussed the basics of the approach we are taking to developing an information model of at-risk communities. This really just means a structured approach to organizing all the information we have about the situation we are monitoring. Our goal...
by Sentinel Project | Jul 5, 2010 | General News
Genocide is a complex problem and predicting and responding to it are usually constrained by several factors including geography, the difficulty of information gathering, international legality, and political will (within the state in question and outside of it)....