An International Committee of the Red Cross report outlines seven humanitarian-law rules and two recommendations for armed groups concerning family…
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The United States’ decision to sanction the International Criminal Court expands financial pressure from individual judges and officials to the…
A Human Rights Watch report documents how armed groups in Colombia recruit children through social media, deception, coercion, and threats,…
contact and mother-tongue use, military training, detention, and deaths whose circumstances remain unclear. Her testimony details her reasons for joining,…
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Maryam Farrokhi, an 18-year-old from Piranshahr, describes her experience with Komala after being influenced by a friend’s accounts of freedom…
Samira Soufi, a 32-year-old hairdresser and tattoo artist, describes how a work trip to Erbil led to obtaining a supporter…
Kaveh Shahbazi recounts how Instagram contacts persuaded him to join Komala as a teenager with promises of money, housing, a…
Hira recounts her recruitment by PAK as a teenager, subsequent confinement and abuse, repeated escape attempts, and her eventual flight…
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