Tag Archives: Iraq
Posted on March 16, 2015 by Naila Bozo
I wanted to write a moving piece. I wanted to write in commemoration of the Halabja Massacre that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 Kurdish civilians in a poison gas attack in 1988 carried out on the orders of Saddam Hussein, …
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Displacements,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan |
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Genocide,
Halabja,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Massacre |
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Posted on March 8, 2015 by Naila Bozo
Today, people are celebrating International Women’s Day. To some it is a day to celebrate women like Mother’s Day but to others it is a day to mark women’s past, present and future struggle to achieve empowerment and equality with …
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Iran,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Syria,
Women |
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International Women's Day,
Iraq,
KRG,
Kurdish women,
Kurdistan,
women,
Yezidi |
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Posted on September 7, 2014 by Xoncha Nouri
We left Erbil in the morning two weeks ago to meet the Yezidis who had managed to escape ISIS terror, Shoresh Rahem, KRG’s representative in Sweden, another friend and I. The camps in Duhok and Zakho were filled with people …
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Displacements,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Syria,
United Nations,
Urgent |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurds,
UN,
Yezidis |
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Posted on August 30, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Terrifying stories about the plight of the people in Kurdistan and Iraq fleeing the terrorist group Islamic State are shaking the world and has forced the international community to take immediate action to relieve their suffering. The United Nations has …
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Displacements,
Health,
Iraq,
Kurdistan |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurdistan,
Yezidi |
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Posted on August 22, 2014 by Asli Sena Kücükyildiz
In his last speech he held as the head of AKP last week, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed: “The only country that opened its doors to the Yezidis is Turkey, we have accepted 2 thousand Yezidis and are sending help to …
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Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Turkey,
Yezidi |
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Posted on August 10, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The disastrous situation in Kurdish cities in Iraq and northern Iraq continues after The Islamic State (IS) a week ago took control of cities in the area. Up to 150,000 Yezidi Kurds are still trapped in the mountains and they …
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Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Genocide,
Iraq,
Kurdistan,
Terror,
United Nations,
Urgent |
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Iraq,
IS,
Kurd,
Kurdistan,
Yezidi |
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Posted on August 3, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Militant fighters from the Islamic State (IS) have on Sunday attacked the Yezidi village Siba Sheikh Khidir and surrounding villages, writes Êzîdî Press. Kurdish peshmerge units and armed Yezidi residents joined forces to resist IS advancing into territory under Kurdish …
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Kurdistan,
Terror,
United Nations,
Violence |
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Iraq,
ISIS,
Kurdistan,
Kurds |
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Posted on July 20, 2007 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
This is an interesting excerpt from a documentary which starts by detailing the Kurdish crisis within Iraq, when Saddam was still its dictator, and then goes on to describe the history of the Kurds. Note: The beginning features disturbing images …
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Culture,
Iraq,
Videos |
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Iraq,
Kurdish rights,
Kurdistan |
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