In an uncommon and very welcome move, Toronto City Council recently declared May 10 to be Will to Intervene Day. This move is the result of a joint initiative by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) and the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P)....
As a growing organization, we’re looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated volunteer to join the Sentinel Project and take on the role of Volunteer Coordinator. Your role will be to help us recruit talented, experienced, and passionate individuals into our various teams and working...
Anyone who knows the Sentinel Project knows that we’re big fans of technology. Whether it’s data visualization or flying robots, when we talk about genocide prevention, we’re also talking about new tools we can develop. However, technology has already been having an impact on the struggle for...
On Sunday, April 22, 2012, I was given the opportunity, with Abhishek, to attend the 97th anniversary of the Armenian genocide commemoration ceremony. Although much of the ceremony was conducted in Armenian, which I unfortunately do not understand, I was fortunate enough to sit with an older...
[written by Andrew Miller] The act of genocide requires years of preparation since an attempt to wipe out a culture or a group through mass killings can’t be planned over night. Before purchasing the weapons and rounding up the victims, society needs to be persuaded to hate the target population,...
For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Emily Tamfo and for the last few months I have been interning for the Sentinel Project as part of the Media and the Public Interest program at the University of Western Ontario. My time with SP is now coming to a close and I’ve been reflecting on...
We have now compiled a summary of all the events in Iran which targeted the Bahá’í community during the month of March 2012. This period saw a continuation of many of the activities noted during February including the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Bahá’ís, their expulsion from schools, and...
U.S.A – Last weekend, I represented the Sentinel Project at the Indiana Genocide Prevention Summit hosted by Global Solutions (formerly known as Citizens for Global Solutions), at the Indianapolis Inter-church Center Corp in Indianapolis, Indiana. The summit was well attended and the...
Last week, I had the honour of speaking on a panel at the Toronto screening of Education Under Fire, a film about the exclusion of Bahá’ís from Iranian universities and colleges and the crackdown on the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). The evening was a perfect opportunity to offer...
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention has been tracking the systematic harassment and persecution of Iran’s Bahá’í community for several years, with the fear that this religious group, Iran’s largest minority religion with around 300,000 members, may be the target of the world’s next...
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