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Quite some interesting information and news from the Kurdish regions – Bakur (Turkey), Başȗr (Iraq), Rojava (Syria) and Rojhilat (Iran) – is rarely, if ever, reported by the mainstream media.
The Kurdish Institute tries to fill this gap by reporting on a regular basis through its own news page recent facts and events, both from the Kurdish regions and from the rest of the world.
HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN IRAN
INDEX
Introduction
Systematic Execution Policy
Women's Situation
Bombardment Against Civilian Areas
To the Attention of International Community
Kurds criticize Turkish government’s silence on mass graves
Thousands of people marched in eastern Turkey to protest what they described as the government’s silence on mass graves uncovered in the area last month.
Turkish court sentences former Parliament deputy to three years
A Turkish court sentenced a former deputy of the banned Democracy Party, or DEP, to three years in prison on Thursday.
Petition: Acceptance of the Genocide in Dersim, former province of Turkey 1937/38, Today, since 1938: Tunceli
To the Committee on petitions, European Parliament, -Dept. Activities of the Members- L-2929 Luxemburg
European Parliament resolution on Turkey’s progress report 2010
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION, to wind up the debate on statements by the Council and the Commission, pursuant to Rule 110(2) of the Rules of Procedure on Turkey's 2010 progress report, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Politicians and experts participating in the Stockholm Conference
On February 12, 2011 organizes human rights organization Kurdocide Watch CHAK an international conference on the situation in Western Kurdistan (Syria) in Stockholm.
FAYLEE KURDS IN IRAQ, Majeed R. Jafar, Ph.D.
Presented at the Event,
Organized by Gulan, London,
On 30 November 2010
Iran urged to drop prison sentences against human rights activists
Amnesty International has denounced the prison sentences imposed on two leading Iranian human rights defenders and urged the authorities to drop all charges against them.
Urgent Appeal: The lives of Kurdish human rights activist Hafiz Abdul Rahman in danger
The former detainee and convicted because of his human rights activities Hafiz Rahman is now in Turkey, He fled Syria because of his pursuit of the security branches.
