A Human Rights Watch report documents how armed groups in Colombia recruit children through social media, deception, coercion, and threats,…
CHILD RECRUITMENT
Christel Querton argues that forced marriage within armed groups can constitute forced recruitment and may establish a link between persecution…
contact and mother-tongue use, military training, detention, and deaths whose circumstances remain unclear. Her testimony details her reasons for joining,…
This third installment details Hira's harrowing experiences within the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), highlighting systematic physical torture, solitary confinement, and…
Jann K. Kleffner's legal analysis examines why non-state armed groups remain strictly bound by international humanitarian law during non-international armed…
International refugee law balances the obligation to protect victims of persecution with mechanisms that exclude perpetrators of serious crimes. Grounded…
“The struggle for the freedom of Kurdistan, warfare for the realization of Kurdish rights, presence in the mountains for the…
“My parents separated, and I faced significant emotional and psychological challenges then. The satellite propaganda of armed groups like Komala…
Apparently, the sad story of Kurdish children in the Middle East is not over yet… Underdevelopment, Kolberi [cross-border smuggling], civil…
Mahmood Ahmadi, son of Assad, from Hassan Nouran village, Oshnaviyeh, West Azerbaijan province, Iran, and a Kurdish under-age abducted by…