Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Introduction
A federal system was established to minimize sectarian and ethnic conflict risks and to foster cohabitation aligned with Iraq’s cosmopolitan structure. Power institutions were constitutionally shared among ethnicities and sects, including Kurds, Arabs, and Shiites, formalized through a public referendum.
Maxmur camp has been targeted by the Iraqi state after the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), as a result of the impositions of the Turkish state. The Iraqi state wants to…
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Amnesty International calls for the release of five journalists in Kurdistan Region. Reactions are growing to the latest arrest of 5 journalists and activists from Behdinan by the KDP which…
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On 16 February, the 2nd Erbil (Hewler) Criminal Court, in the Kurdish Region of Iraq’s capital, sentenced activists and journalists Sherwan Sherwani, Ghudar Zebari, Hussein Issa, Ayaz Karan and Shvan…
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Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar makes propaganda with the PKK POWs killed in the Gare invasion. Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, who himself was a POW, says: “A state that massacres its…
Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to…
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The Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) policies pose a threat to the Kurds and Kurdistan, and Kurdish journalists confirm that the PDK is constantly cooperating with the enemies, moves according to…
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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…
