Monthly Archives: April 2012

Not all Kurdish women are victims of honour!

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

I don’t mean to underestimate the harrowing accounts of honour-based violence or killings that have been reported over the years, but I’m increasingly irritated by a western oriental narrative of Kurdish women, as victims of honour. We are not all …

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The Soraya Fallah story

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

A profile of Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist and researcher, Soraya Fallah, with her daughter Cklara Moradian. Soraya was imprisoned four times, and tortured so severely that she miscarried in solitary confinement. As Cklara, her daughter, says, “My parents are my …

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ECHR court rules Turkish police violated convention on Human rights

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

The European court of Human rights ruled in the case of Ali Güneş v. Turkey, unanimously, that there was a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European convention on Human rights. Ali Güneş was …

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20 Kurdish youth arrested by Assad regime forces

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

20 Kurdish youth were arrested this week while trying to seek refuge in Zakho City of Kurdistan. Kurdish activists have informed us that they are aged between 18 and 26, and their whereabouts are currently unknown. In a statement to …

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Turkish brutality towards Kurdish children – The Final Frontier

Posted on by Karam Kurda

It was the summer of 2005; I was 13 when I returned to Kurdistan for the second time. Before that my only sighting of it had been in 1993, a visit where I would have been only 2 years old, …

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In memory of Ibrahîm Ehmed

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

Ibrahîm Ehmed was a Kurdish political activist, writer and translator (born 6 March 1914, Silêmanî, Kurdistan). He passed away on 8 April 2000, aged 86 in his hometown. Ahmad studied Law at the University of Baghdad, and graduated in 1937. …

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Kurdish mothers protest against forced disappearances of Kurds

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

The saturday mothers held their 367th weekly protest against forced disappearances of Kurdish people in Turkey. They initially began this weekly protest between 1995 and 1999 but had to stop because of ill-treatment and detention. On March 2009, the saturday …

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Kurds protest against Assad in Qamişlo

Posted on by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar

Thousands of Syrians took to the streets to protest against the Syrian regime today, despite a strong security forces presence. Kurdish people staged huge demonstrations in Qamişlo. The United Nations has said more than 9,000 protesters have been killed since …

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