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State-Less Prisoners: When Non-State Armed Groups Become Responsible for Persons in Their Custody

This article examines the legal obligations of non-state armed groups detaining individuals during armed conflicts, drawing on framework principles published…

Article

State-Less Prisoners: When Non-State Armed Groups Become Responsible for Persons in Their Custody

This article examines the legal obligations of non-state armed groups detaining individuals during armed conflicts, drawing on framework principles published…

Article

ICRC Engagement with Armed Groups in 2024

This article analyzes the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2024 global report on non-state armed groups, detailing engagement…

Article

Non-State Armed Groups in the Mirror of International Law: Legal Lessons from a Special Issue of the International Review of the Red Cross

This article examines the legal duties and accountability of non-state armed groups through the analysis of a special issue of…

Interview

Forgotten Child Soldiers: A Kurdish Teenager’s Testimony of Seven Seasons in an Armed Group

The recruitment of minors under 18 by Kurdish armed groups via social media constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian…

Article

Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Law, Practice, Policy

This article presents a translation of Ezequiel Heffes’ review of Gerd Oberleitner’s landmark book, Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Law,…

Article

When War Knows No Law: Why Non-State Armed Groups Are Obligated to Protect Civilians

An analytical report by IKHRW based on research by Professor Sonia Hernández Pradas details the legal obligations of non-state armed…

Article

Women in the Shadows of Law: How Criminal Justice Deficiencies Reproduce Gender-Based Violence in Iraqi Kurdistan

An analytical review of Amnesty International's 2024 report exposes how systemic legal loopholes, judicial inaction, underfunded institutions, and mandatory reconciliation…

Report

“I Left for Work, But Ended Up in an Armed Group”: Mehran’s Account of Years spent inside the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK)

A 32-year-old former defector details how he was lured across the Iranian border into the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) through…

Interview

Slavery Under the Banner of Struggle: A Survivor’s Account from PAK Camps in the Mountains of the Kurdistan Region

A survivor's account details severe human rights abuses, forced labor, and child recruitment within the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) military…

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