Category: Report
“Disappeared” Iranian Kurdish children / “Mahmoud Salahi” from Kermanshah
According to the information received by the Human Rights Watch of Iranian Kurdistan and verified, “Mahmoud Salahi” with the organizational name “Ardal Agit” was a Kermanshah native. According to this information, he was born in Dalaho, Kermanshah. His father’s name was “Akbar” and his mother’s name was “Hajar”. The child was deceived in 2009 in […]
Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch report on “Iranian-Kurdish Missing Children” for the UN
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is a United Nations international human rights treaty designed to prevent the enforced disappearance of persons and defined in international law as a crime against humanity. The resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 20, 2006 and signed by the […]
Recommendations concerning the prevention of more unnecessary victims such as “Hediye Tahai”
Much has been said about the reasons for recruitment of youngsters by the PKK and PJAK. The children of such families, who can not bear the economic and social problems and of course the sometimes unreasonable and irrational pressures of their parents, seek refuge, but are unaware that the paths they choose are going nowhere […]
While 4 more children are abducted by PKK’s Syrian wing; Dana Ahmadi’s mother yearns for answers
The Syrian wing of the PKK, the YPG, has recruited four more children in a renewed violation of international law and norms in northern Syria’s Aleppo province Wednesday. Militants kidnapped 14-year-old Sevsen Dervis and 16-year-old Nisrin Habas from the Eshme village on Feb. 26. They also kidnapped 14-year-old Muhammed and 14-year-old Diyar Muhammed […]
۳۲ cases of femicide in Iranian Kurdistan in 2021
Femicide, or murder of women, is unfortunately an all too familiar phenomenon in Kurdistan. Despite various legislations and criminal approaches, in 2021 the number of murders of Kurdish women in Iran, Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan is again steadily increasing. Turkey Hundreds of women were killed in Turkey in 2021, the same year Ankara officially withdrew […]
PKK’s Syrian wing YPG also deceives, forcefully holds, and indoctrinates children
Not unlike Iranian wing PJAK, PKK's Syrian wing YPG continues to kidnap minors to use them as child soldiers. Muhammad Azad Hasan (15) is the latest victim.
Geneva Call co-founder: “The organization has unfortunately stopped monitoring the engagement taken by armed groups in some cases”
In an answer to IKHRW's correspondence with Elizabeth Decrey Warner, the former director of Geneva Call has said: "The organization has unfortunately stopped monitoring the engagement taken by armed groups in some cases".
PKK child soldiers suffer psychological damage: Who was “Hussein Chinga”?
PJAK child soldier Hossein Chingeh suffered tremendously after his commander Amed Malazgirt tossed him aside. He died in Turkey's Botan region.
Mother begs PJAK leader to be able to meet her child in Clubhouse meeting
In PJAK's latest Clubhouse meeting with Siamend Moeini, mother Shapool begged the leader to be able to meet her child that had been recruited three years ago. Moeini's answer was insufficient.
UNICEF: will you help us return PJAK’s child soldiers home?
The kidnapping of minors and the deception of the youth in all countries with a Kurdish minority and the presence of PKK-affiliated organizations continues. This also happens on a regular basis in Iranian Kurdistan, where Iranian Kurdish teenagers are influenced and deceived both through social media platforms and local handlers deliberately targeting them, to be […]