A Human Rights Watch report documents how armed groups in Colombia recruit children through social media, deception, coercion, and threats,…
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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…
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…
The murder of 16-year-old Hana Rekan in Kermanshah highlights severe gaps in child protection systems. Reports of prior domestic violence…
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,…