Category: Syria

UN: Hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk in Afrin

March 16, 2018July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève 689 Comments

United Nations Human Rights Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made a statement on reports of civilian deaths and injuries in Afrin due to airstrikes, ground-based strikes, reports of civilians being prevented from leaving Afrin city by Kurdish forces.

Reports, Syria

HRW: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians

February 3, 2018July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Guards at Turkey’s closed border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.

Reports, Syria, Turkey

15 years prison sentence asked for medicine student wounded in Kobanê

July 1, 2015July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

The second hearing in the trial of Dicle University Medicine Faculty student Esra Yakar, who was wounded in a mortar fire attack of ISIS gangs in Kobanê during her stay in the town to provide treatment to the wounded, has been held today.

News, Syria, Turkey

5 youths from Rojava tortured by Turkish soldiers

April 26, 2015July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Turkish soldiers deployed at the border to Rojava, West Kurdistan, continue committing cruelty against the civilians crossing the border, where 4 people have been killed during the past 4 weeks.

News, Syria, Turkey

The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….