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Learn more about Committee on Conscience areas of concern through images. The photography pages include photos from throughout the Committee on Conscience Web site, including photo essays with top international photographers.

HISTORY & CONCEPT Raphael Lemkin 1947 Lemkin on UN radio — UN. VIEW MORE PHOTOS (2 images) INTERNATIONAL LAW "Wanted" A nun carries a poster with a photo of Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt which reads "WANTED: Jose Efrain Rios Montt and those associated with his High Military Order of 1982. For war crimes and crimes against humanity" in front of the public ministry in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 6, 2001. — AP/Jaime Puebla VIEW MORE PHOTOS (3 images) REFUGEES Refugees on the St. Louis Passengers crowd the deck of the St. Louis. — USHMM, courtesy of Fred Buff. VIEW MORE PHOTOS (3 images)

SUDAN Peoples of the Nuba Mountains and Northern Bahr al-Ghazal Photographer James Nicholls This collection of images is from Nicholls' many travels to Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains, between 1999 and 2004. — James Nicholls VIEW MORE PHOTOS (15 images) What Will It Take to Stop Genocide in Darfur? The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum projected wall-sized images of the escalating genocide in Darfur onto its façade during Thanksgiving week, 2006. — USHMM VIEW MORE PHOTOS Sudan: South/Nuba Mountains Training camp for Popular Defense Forces militia, known among diplomats in Khartoum as “atrocity battalions.” — Malcolm Linton/Liaison Agency, New York, NY VIEW MORE PHOTOS (3 images) Staring Genocide in the Face Jerry Fowler, staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad to meet refugees from Sudan. — USHMM/Jerry Fowler. VIEW AUDIO ESSAY Eyewitness Account: "In Darfur my camera was not enough" Brian Steidle, a former U.S. Marine, was a member of the African Union team monitoring the conflict in Darfur. He took hundreds of photographs documenting atrocities. Learn about what he witnessed in Darfur and see the evidence he gathered. — Brian Steidle. VIEW PHOTO ESSAY Genocide in Darfur A displaced mother with her sick child at the hospital in El Fasher in the western region of Darfur in Sudan, June 25, 2004. Reuters/Marcus Gyger. — Reuters/Marcus Gyger. VIEW MORE PHOTOS (2 images) CHECHNYA Protest in Grozny Chechen women hold photos of their disappeared children during a protest in Grozny, Saturday, March 22, 2003. — AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev VIEW MORE PHOTOS (3 images) BALKANS Balkans The breakup of the former Yugoslavia, which began in 1991, led to several wars (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo), foremost noted for violent targeting of minority ethnic groups. In Srebrenica, a small town in eastern Bosnia, 7,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by Serb forces, the worst massacre in Europe since the Holocaust. — Ron Haviv VIEW MORE PHOTOS (4 images) CENTRAL AFRICA World Is Witness A new "geoblog" from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. — USHMM. VIEW MORE PHOTOS Defying Genocide A short film detailing the efforts of Damas Gisimba to save children and others during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. — USHMM. VIEW THE FILM Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo An infant lies on a makeshift bed at a crowded refugee camp by the UN headquarters building. — Edward Parsons/Galbe. VIEW JOURNAL Photo Essay: Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Rwanda Photojournalist Kimberlee Acquaro documents Rwandan women's emerging rights and roles in the country's post-genocidal reconciliation and reconstruction. — Kimberlee Acquaro. VIEW PHOTO ESSAY Rwandan Genocide A cemetery in Nyanza-Rebero, Rwanda, where genocide victims are buried. — USHMM/Jerry Fowler VIEW MORE PHOTOS (3 images)