A Human Rights Watch report documents how armed groups in Colombia recruit children through social media, deception, coercion, and threats,…
Forced 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,…
Saman Hamidinejad recounts entering a PJAK-controlled area at seventeen and spending fourteen days in a snow-covered mountain cave without adequate…
Hira recounts her recruitment by PAK as a teenager, subsequent confinement and abuse, repeated escape attempts, and her eventual flight…
This report details the coercive recruitment of an Iranian Kurdish teenager named Hira into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK). Lured…
A distraught father from Ilam has appealed to IKHRW following the disappearance and recruitment of his 14-year-old son into the…
A 32-year-old former defector details how he was lured across the Iranian border into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) through…
Former Komala member Maedeh Mahmoudvand exposes how she was deceived as a teenager by Instagram propaganda promising freedom. Her extensive…
This interview with a senior Iranian diplomat in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) details how separatist groups exploit free…