The disparity in vaccine availability is a threat to the refugee community, as well as the rest of the world.

Engaging in activism during the pandemic can be difficult due to health-related barriers and stressors. Follow these tips to foster connection and empowerment during Genocide Awareness Month and beyond.

We see ourselves as decent people who seek to “overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21), yet we also see many of our leaders use creative language to “call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).

In 1941, the world began to learn of the mass murder of Jewish people in what would become known as the Holocaust. In 1948, world leaders gathered, shocked by the events they had witnessed, and vowed that human rights atrocities would never happen again. In 1986, this promise was broken when 182,000 Kurds were killed during the Anfal Campaign in Iraq.

The shooting that took the lives of eight in Atlanta, Georgia, is the latest in a series of instances of identity-based violence. For our sake, it must be the last.

The Selk’nam tribe was thought to be extinct after years of violence, slavery, and genocide. Activist Hema’ny Molina resists the erasure of Selk'nam culture and fights to ensure that such atrocities will never happen again.

Today marks the 53rd anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr. TWR Youth Fellow Dorene Hantzis connects this past to the present and explores the historical truths we must confront to reach our end goal of “Never Again.”

While every day is the apt time to fight injustice in all its forms, Together We Remember intends to spend this April, or Genocide Awareness Month (GAM), inspiring education, action, and remembrance. GAM is a month where, as a united front across the world, we remember the lives lost to identity-based violence throughout history, and work harder than ever to prevent it from ever happening again.

Together, we must ensure that the efforts, histories, and experiences will never again be overlooked or erased.

In 2018, a school shooting in Parkland, Florida reignited America’s debate about gun control and violent extremism. Three years later, we reflect on how to practice collective memory in a way that uplifts the human aspects of tragedy.