In the context of the African Task Force (ATF) initiative launched in 2015, on February 22nd the Budapest Centre convened a regional workshop in Nairobi with key representatives within the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) and the Kenya National Committee on the Prevention of Genocide.

The Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities wishes to facilitate the activities of the international community committed to atrocity crimes prevention and the implementation of the concept of the Responsibility to Protect through compiling a Global Questionnaire on Atrocity Crimes.

Visit the EURONEWS website to read the interview of Anna Flori to our Chair, Dr Gyorgy Tatar, on the refugee crisis in Europe and the need for stronger cooperation.

On January 22, 2016 at the Italian Association of the Foreign Press, our Director for Research and Cooperation, Prof Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini, participated, along with the Italian UnderSecretary of State for Civil Liberties and Migration, Judge Domenico Manzione, and Professor Antonio Golini, to the presentation of the English version of the “Report on the reception of migrants and refugees in Italy. Aspects, procedures, problems” compiled in 2015 by a group of experts for the Italian Ministry of the Interior.

Today is the first International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime!

On November 30th, Mariella Pagliuca and Thea Restovin, research assistants of the Budapest Centre, participated in the Fifth EASO Consultative Forum held in La Valletta, Malta.

On November 27th, the Budapest Centre met with key departments within SADC to discuss the Southern African chapters of the African Task Force on the Prevention of Mass Atrocities.