Category: Women

KurdDAO Launches Fundraising Campaign in Support of Kurdish Human Rights

January 2, 2023January 9, 2023 Centre Kurde Genève

Jan. 2 2023 — Supporters of Kurdish international solidarity have come together to release KurdDAO, a non-profit fundraising DAO in coordination with the Kurdish Centre for Human Rights, initially backing projects to strengthen Kurdish women’s rights as well as raising awareness and support for Kurdish political prisoners and the spread of democratic modernity in the…

Children, Press Releases, War Crimes, Women

Written statement: Enforced Disappearance: Women in Afrin

February 24, 2021January 9, 2023 Centre Kurde Genève

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 4 A/HRC/46/NGO/35 Written statement* submitted by Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association, a non- governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Over the past ten years, the Syrian people have suffered by all parties to the conflict, including severe repression and…

OHCHR, Women

KHRN: Iran sentences female activist to five years in prison for teaching Kurdish

February 14, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

An Iranian court has sentenced Kurdish female civil rights activist Zahra Mohammadi to five years in prison for teaching Kurdish language in the Kurdish region of Iran, sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 16 February 2020, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj – presided over by Judge Saeidi…

Iran, Women

Al-Hirmas and al-Khider killers captured

February 13, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

The two killers of Si’da al-Hirmas co-chair of the Tal Shayer Council and deputy Hind al-Khider were captured by the Anti- Terror Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Information available signify that ISIS affiliates that killed Si’da al-Hirmas, co-chair of the Tal Shayer Council, and deputy Hind al-Khider were captured by the Anti- Terror Units…

Syria, Women

Iranian repression targets women in Rojhilat

February 12, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

The wave of arrests against Kurdish civil society in Iran harshly affects women. Some of the women detained continue to be interrogated in Revolutionary Guard prisons. The wave of arrests that has hit Kurdish civil society in Rojhilat since January also affects several women. At least six of a total of twelve activists who have…

Iran, Women

Yazidi woman kidnapped in occupied Afrin, delivered to Turkey for trial

February 11, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

An abducted Yazidi woman has been delivered to Turkey for trial “on charges of terrorism”. A Yazidi woman aged 45, named Ghazala Mannan Salmo, from the Yazidi village of Basufan in Afrin’s Sherawa district, was abducted by Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham mercenaries, reported the Human Rights Organization of Afrin, Syria. According to the organization, the woman…

Syria, Women

Woman abducted and brutally murdered in Sardasht- Iran

January 26, 2021January 30, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

A woman named Sonya Degkan was abducted by four people and tortured to death in Sardasht, Eastern Kurdistan. Kurdpa Agency reported that Sonya Dagkan was kidnapped from her workplace by 4 people who were her relatives. The woman is reported to have been taken to a place outside the city and was killed by torture….

Iran, Women

Yazidi girl exposes Daesh ISIS atrocities

January 26, 2021January 30, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

Yazidi survivor Najla Saeed Ismail indicated that ISIS mercenaries had transferred a number of Yazidi women to Turkey, including her sister, said that if it had not left us a lone by the governments of Baghdad and Başûr Kurdistan, we would not have reached where we are today. Yazidi survivor Najla Saeed Ismail is 23…

Iraq, Women