Saman Hamidinejad recounts entering a PJAK-controlled area at seventeen and spending fourteen days in a snow-covered mountain cave without adequate…
child soldiers
This second installment details the systematic abuse, forced marriages, and severe physical torture inflicted upon underage recruits within the Kurdistan…
This report details the coercive recruitment of an Iranian Kurdish teenager named Hira into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). Lured…
A legal study by scholar Hawre Ahmed Mohammed analyzes the 2014 ISIS campaign against the Yazidi population, demonstrating how mass…
This exclusive testimony details how a fifteen-year-old Iranian youth was deceptively recruited into the armed group Komala via social media…
In an exclusive interview with IKHRW, a former female member of the PDKI details her ten-month ordeal inside mountain camps,…
A distraught father from Ilam has appealed to IKHRW following the disappearance and recruitment of his 14-year-old son into the…
Modern conflicts increasingly feature non-state armed groups operating outside formal international law-making processes, raising critical legal questions regarding how to…
An analysis of the Taliban’s reparations demand against Germany highlights critical international law barriers, including diplomatic representation, court jurisdiction, and…
This analysis explores Mark Klamberg’s study on Ukraine’s domestic prosecution of war crimes, demonstrating how national courts can serve as…