Category: Human Rights Watch
Posted on June 8, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Caught in the spirit of reform that has spread all over the Middle East, protests against the Kurdistan Regional Government have largely gone unnoticed, with Kurdish youth demanding an end to corruption, nepotism, high unemployment, biased media outlets, and violence. …
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Posted on April 8, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
For over 50 years, over 300,000 Kurds in Syria were labeled foreigners in a 1963-census that was carried out in an arbitrary manner which restricted the “foreigner” Kurds acquiring employment, education, health, property, or even marriage. The government has banned …
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Arabic,
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Discrimination,
Displacements,
Human Rights Watch,
Kurdistan,
Suppression,
Syria |
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Posted on March 16, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
Kurdistan Region has been called the “Other Iraq,” “the next Dubai,” and is the most stable region of Iraq with a vibrating economy and social life, though primarily enjoyed by the elites and the middle class, which do not make …
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Human Rights Watch,
Iraq,
Journalists,
Kurdistan,
Media |
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Posted on March 26, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Following the March 21 shooting at Kurds celebrating Norouz (new year) in the town of Ar-Raqqah, which left at least one person dead, the international human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have issued statements today. According to …
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Youth |
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Posted on December 14, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Pro-Kurdish DTP Closed down by Constitutional Court Ankara, Istanbul – BÄ°A News Center – The Constitutional Court ruled for the closure of pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party and imposed a political ban on 37 of its members. Co-chairs Türk and TuÄŸluk …
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Democratic Society Party,
Discrimination,
European Union,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Leyla Zana,
Turkey |
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Posted on July 19, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On Sunday the 19th of July, Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand was tried in the first branch of the revolutionary court of Mahabad for allegedly spreading propaganda against the regime through publications and distribution of pamphlets on the issue of Kurdish women. This is despite already serving 11 years imprisonment.
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Iran,
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Kurdistan,
Suppression |
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Human rights monitors say Iranian authorities continue to detain and harass men and women of Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority. According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, an independent human rights group, more than 100 ethnic Kurdish literary, cultural, and …
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Executions,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Iran,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Prisoners of Conscience,
Reports,
Suppression,
Women |
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
An imprisoned Iranian rights activist and journalist, Mohammad Sadigh Kabudvand, is the latest recipient of a Hellman/Hammett grant, awarded by Human Rights Watch (HRW) to persecuted writers. Kabudvand, the head of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, is serving a …
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