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 surround the camp with hundreds of soldiers, police and gendarmes, military and bulldozers, and to surround the Ertus refugee camp with wire fences. The Turkish…
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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 already holds nearly 50 journalists behind bars in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq. On 16 February, the 2nd Erbil (Hewler) Criminal Court, in the Kurdish Region…
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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 Saeed to six years in prison following an unfair trial, based on trumped-up charges of “destabilizing the security and stability of the Kurdistan Region of…
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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 own soldiers is capable of anything.” Tayyip Erdogan announced glad tidings on February 8 in his “speech to the nation” on Wednesday. Then on Wednesday,…
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 development A/HRC/46/NGO/50 Written statement* submitted by Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association, a non- governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Maat…
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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 a clan mentality and undermines all unity initiatives. The PDK’s policies greatly affects the Kurdish people, and Kurdish journalists believe that this policy contributed 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 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…
