Side Event: Members of armed groups detained in Northern Syria: their legal status and their future

September 17, 2019 admin Activities, OHCHR, Syria 0

Several thousands of men, women and children of ISIS detained by the Kurdish liberation forces are in a judicial limbo – 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council to a side-event on Tuesday, 17 September 2019 – Palais des Nations – Room XXIII (13:00 to 14:00)

Moderator
* Mr. Gianfranco Fattorini – Former Co-president of the Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP) Speech in video

Panelists
* Prof. Marco Sassoli – Director, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Speech in video
* Prof. Agnes Calamard – UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Speech in Video
* Dr. Khaled Issa – Representative of the Northern Syria Administration in France Speech in video

Organized by MRAP in collaboration with GENEVE ACADEMY

The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

Kurdish Centre for Human Rights

Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme

Side Event: Members of armed groups detained in Northern Syria: their legal status and their future