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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (LIGP), or Lemkin Institute, is a multinational non-governmental organization based in the United States. It describes its mission as being to "[connect] the global grassroots with the tools of genocide prevention." [1]
The Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG), formerly the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, [1] is a non-profit organization devoted to genocide and mass atrocity prevention. [2] [3] The institute is best known for its Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention held annually at the ...
Raphael Lemkin (Polish: Rafał Lemkin; 24 June 1900 – 28 August 1959) was a Polish Jewish lawyer who is known for coining the term genocide and campaigning to establish the Genocide Convention. During the Second World War , he campaigned vigorously to raise international awareness of atrocities in Axis-occupied Europe .
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In the wake of the collapse of the Nagorno-Karabakh defenses, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued an alert, drawing attention to the acute risk of genocide faced by Armenians in the region and highlighting the extreme levels of anti-Armenian sentiments within the Azerbaijani military.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention stated that Israeli airstrikes on Rafah "could be the opening salvo to Israel’s promised ground invasion of the town". [190] A bombing reportedly killed six people from a single family. [191]
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Genocide definitions include many scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide, [1] a word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. [2] The word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος ( génos , "genus", or "kind") and the Latin word caedō ("kill").