Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
HDP former co-chair Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş’s lawyers have held a press conference today regarding the September 18 hearing at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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In Bağlar district in the northern Kurdistan city of Amed (Diyarbakır) a child was hit by an armored vehicle of the police on Wednesday and was critically injured.
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Ignacio Miguel Delgado Culebras the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) Middle East correspondent tells in a detailed article about the plight of colleagues in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
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Vendredi 20 Septembre de 12h à 13h Salle XXIII Palais des Nations 1211 Genève
The Shehba Canton in North and East Syria region is faced with a critical lack of medicine and medical supplies due to the embargo imposed by the Syrian regime. This causes great concerns for the people with cancer and chronic diseases.
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The ‘Stop Femicide Platform’ regularly researches women’s murders in Turkey. According to the most recent report presented by the Platform, 31 women were murdered in Turkey in the month of July. Of these, 16 were shot dead with firearm, 5 stabbed, 1 strangled and 3 beaten to death. While a woman fell to death from high “in a suspicious way”, the cause of death is unclear in the cases of 5 women.
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Written statement*submitted by Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l’amitié entre les peuples, a non-governmental organization on the rosterThe Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is circulated in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/31. Human Rights Council Forty-secondsession 9–27 September 2019 Agenda item 3Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
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The 54-page report titled “Social Impacts and Migration” said that 100,000 people will have to migrate due to the building of the Ilisu Dam and the flooding of the 12-thousand-years-old site and Dicle river bank. Report about the consequences of the flooding of Hasankeyf by the Ilisu Dam, was prepared by the Hasankeyf Coordination, ahead of a Global Day of Action, on 14 September.
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