Category: OHCHR

UN special envoy for Syria plans to attend the next Astana meeting in Sochi

February 10, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

The United Nations envoy to Syria said that the fifth session of the so-called “Syrian Constitutional Committee” was disappointing, and that he planned to attend the Astana meeting between the three deals (Russia, Turkey and Iran) in Sochi. On Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said that he intends to attend…

OHCHR, Syria

UN calls on 57 countries to repatriate their nationals held in Hol camp

February 9, 2021February 15, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

Fifty-seven countries have women and children living in detention camps in northeast Syria, a United Nations expert Fionnuala Ni Aolain said, calling on states to repatriate their nationals immediately. United Nations expert Fionnuala Ni Aolain called on states to repatriate their nationals held in camps in northeast Syria immediately. Ni Aolain was referring to ISIS…

OHCHR, Syria

UNICEF: almost half of Syrian children deprived of education

January 25, 2021January 30, 2021 Centre Kurde Genève

UNICEF has revealed that half of the Syrian children are out of schools, and that almost 40% of them are girls, as the ten-year old Syrian Crisis inflicts the children heavily. Muhannad Hadi, Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis and Ted Chaiban UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, released a…

Children, OHCHR

Joint Call on States to Support the Resolution on Human Rights in Iran

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

To All Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York

Iran, OHCHR, Press Releases

UNISON’s women leaders raise concerns about femicide and violence against women in Turkey

December 4, 2020December 8, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also make the British government impose sanctions on Turkey”.

News, OHCHR, Turkey, Women

UN urge Iraq to halt mass executions

November 22, 2020November 23, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

UN human rights experts, Nils Melzer (Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism) and Agnes Callamard (Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions) expressed alarm at reports that some 50 prisoners convicted of terrorism-related crimes in Iraq face execution on Monday, and urged the Government to immediately halt all mass executions saying they had serious concerns about the conduct of the trials and the extraction of confessions under torture.

Iraq, News, OHCHR

UN experts : Mercenaries in and around the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone must be withdrawn

November 11, 2020November 14, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

UN human rights experts* noted the agreement reached on 9 November to put an end to hostilities in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and hope that it will lead to sustained peace in the region. They are nonetheless concerned by the use of mercenaries in and around the conflict zone until this agreement was reached, and expressed alarm at the devastating consequences for the civilian population, with little prospects of accountability.

News, OHCHR, Syria, Turkey

MRAP: Turkey: the racist Zero Tolerance Policy toward Kurds

September 25, 2020September 28, 2020 Centre Kurde Genève

United Nations General Assemblyuman Rights Council 45th Session 14 September–2 October 2020 A/HRC/45/NGO/86 Written statement* submitted by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, a non-governmental organization on the roster./ 25 September 2020

Written statement* submitted by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, a non-governmental organization on the roster

While the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in his report on the 2016 mission to Turkey (A/HRC/37/50/Add.1), appealed the Turkish authorities to publicly reinforce its zero tolerance policy on torture, the Government. of Turkey has developed a racist Zero Tolerance Policy towards Kurdish people.

News, OHCHR