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23 December 2003 Testimonies of Survivors and Eyewitnesses: "I went to take an HIV test to make sure that I wasn't infected and I realized things weren't good on that point. The men who raped me died in prison." Links to the testimonies of individual genocide survivors. New testimony from survivors from Cambodia and Rwanda.

16 December 2003 Lnk added to “National Courts Finally Begin to Prosecute Genocide, the ‘Crime of Crimes’”, by William A. Schabas, Journal of International Criminal Justice 1:1 April 2003: pp. 39-63.. Abstract | Full Text (25 Page PDF file)

16 December 2003 Norwegian homepage added. Also included are the Folkemord Konvensjon in Norwegian, Raphael Lemkin's 1944 introduction of the new word 'genocide', a Norwegian Bibliography and Links pages. Prevent Genocide International's multilingual website is now available in over 20 languages. If you can help us by translating or proofreading material in any of the languages on this website, please send us an email: info@preventgenocide.org

12 December 2003 Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control December 10, 2003, Yale Law School's Human Rights Clinic has released a report on human rights conditions in West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled western half of the island of New Guinea. The report by Elizabeth Brundige, Winter King, Priyneha Vahila, Stephen Vladeck and Xiang Yuan was writeen for the US-based Indonesia Human Rights Network (IHRN www.indonesianetwork.org ). Quote from the text: "Although no single act or set of acts can be said to have constituted genocide, per se, and although the required intent cannot be as readily inferred as it was in the cases of the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, there can be little doubt that the Indonesian government has engaged in a systematic pattern of acts that has resulted in harm to--and indeed the destruction of--a substantial part of the indigenous population of West Papua." Summary (html) or 77 page report (PDF file)

9 December 2003 Global News Monitor for December 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

1 December 2003 Information on the Genocide Convention Minor revisons and highlighted on the homepage to mark the 55th anniversary of the approval of the Genocide Convention on December 9, 2003.

15 November 2003 Global News Monitor for November 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

9 October 2003 Global News Monitor for October 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

25 October 2003 Information on the Genocide Convention webpage updated, including a new link to the Frontispiece, Table of Contents and Chapter 1 of William Schabas's Genocide in International Law, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000) [23 page PDF file]

25 October 2003 Ukrainian homepage added [see 18 July 2003 below]

25 October 2003 Website Index webpage added

9 October 2003 Global News Monitor for October 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

3 October 2003 Events and Upcoming Conferences webpage updated to include International War Crimes Trials: Making A Difference? November 6-7, 2003, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, USA

23 September 2003 Decision of the Spanish Supreme Court concerning the Guatemala Genocide Case Feb. 25, 2003 (English) or Spanish full text 58 pages, PDF file

23 September 2003 Events and Upcoming Conferences webpage updated to include The 10th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda The Rwanda Forum: Global Response and Responsibility Place: Imperial Museum, London. Saturday 27 March 2004, 09:30—20:00. For other 10th anniversary commemorations for the Rwandan Genocide see: Remember Rwanda Rwanda 10th Anniversary Memorial Project

22 September 2003 The Second International Conference on Genocide is scheduled for October 14-16, 2004 in Sacramento, California. Proceedings of a previous 1998 conference were published as Anatomy of Genocide: State-Sponsored Mass-Killings in the 20th Century (Edwin Mellen Press). Contact: CSUS Ethnic Studies Department www.csus.edu/ethn/

22 September 2003 Education Webpage updated To include Genocide Studies research and education programs at 32 colleges and universities in 9 countries and 13 US States

6 September 2003 On September 5, 2003, Georgia ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, thereby becoming the 92nd State Party to the treaty. On July 1, 2002 the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

1 September 2003 Global News Monitor for July 2003: and August 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

3 July 2003 Global News Monitor for June 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

3 July 2003 Global News Monitor for May 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

2 May 2003 Global News Monitor for April 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

19 March 2003 Global News Monitor for March 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence.

1 February 2003 Global News Monitor for January 2003: Tracking current news on genocide and items related to past and present ethnic, national, racial and religious violence. Recent comment on the Global News Monitor: "Excellent monthly newsletters compiling international reporting on conflict issues and threats to ethnic/ religious minorities can be found on the Prevent Genocide International site (www.preventgenocide.org). While largely pulling material from mainstream international media sources, the broad perspective of the screening process guarantees interesting reading."