America’s reluctance to prevent the Rwandan genocide was a policy failure on numerous fronts. In April 1994, ethnic Hutus began the systematic killing of their fellow countrymen, the Tutsis, in the sub-Saharan African country of Rwanda. Over...
Afghanistan’s young people face many challenges that need to be overcome in order to move the country forward. On July 23, 2017, more than 120 passionate and determined young people from all over Afghanistan assembled to talk about their...
As the world watches in horror at the escalating Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, Bangladesh shows what a bit of empathy can do. Bangladesh is not rich by any means. In fact, it is one of the world’s poorest nations, with more than a third of its...
Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are being driven out of the country in what the UN calls “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic group that practices a form of Sunni Islam. For centuries, they have lived in...
In this guest edition of The Interview, Vishal Manve talks to Meenakshi Ganguly, the South Asia director of Human Rights Watch. Rohingya Muslims, the “world’s most persecuted minority,” are fleeing from Rakhine State in Myanmar following a...
