Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, the country has faced an escalating human rights and humanitarian crisis. Throughout 2021 and beyond the Global Centre has engaged in sustained advocacy efforts to help catalyze an appropriate international response.

China has perpetrated repressive campaigns against religious and ethnic minorities for several decades. The systematic persecution of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim and/or Turkic groups in China may amount to crimes against humanity and genocide. The Global Centre has worked alongside a broad NGO coalition to expose and end these abuses in Xinjiang, as well as in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (Tibet).

In November 2020, following months of escalating political tensions, the federal government of Ethiopia launched a military offensive in the Tigray region against the governing Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The conflict caused immense human suffering, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions of civilians. From the outset of the conflict and following the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in November 2022, the Global Centre has played a pivotal role in organizing international advocacy efforts to highlight the severity of the crisis and urge a robust international response.

For over a decade the Global Centre has sought to clearly articulate the nature of the risks to populations in Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and of the crimes being perpetrated in Gaza. The Global Centre has maintained this strong framing in all our work, utilizing a fact-based narrative focused on the reality for Palestinian populations across the OPT, as well as the credible investigations by independent experts, human rights organizations, UN commissions and international courts.

For several years, the Global Centre has been actively engaged in multiple advocacy efforts to maintain international scrutiny and human rights monitoring in Sudan. Following the outbreak of the conflict in April 2023, the Global Centre has undertaken a range of advocacy initiatives to refocus the international community’s attention on addressing the conflict through an atrocity prevention lens.

Since 2015 civilians in Yemen have suffered from recurrent war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by all parties to the conflict, including the Houthis, Southern Transitional Council, the government of Yemen and the Saudi/United Arab Emirates (UAE)-led coalition. Throughout the protracted conflict, the Global Centre has been a leading advocate for UN action to address these grave violations and ensure accountability.