In 1994 and 1995, Human Rights Watch urged states to bring a case against Iraq for genocide against the Kurds before the International Court of Justice. Human Rights Watch is preparing a detailed
Nobody was killed.”. Iran has previously attacked the political offices of Iranian opposition parties based in Iraq. In September 2018, Iranian missiles struck the headquarters of two Iranian
The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish
Five independent UN experts condemned United States President Donald Trump’s pardoning of private security contractors, convicted in 2015 for war crimes in Iraq, on Wednesday. “Pardoning the Blackwater contractors is an affront to justice and to the victims of the Nisour Square massacre and their families,” said Jelena Aparac, Chair
The 407-page World Report 2004: Human Rights and Armed Conflict includes 15 essays on a variety of subjects related to war and human rights, from Africa to Afghanistan, from sexual violence as a
Human Rights Watch also interviewed at least 100 families of ISIS suspects, and dozens of people who suffered grave abuses at the hands of ISIS or lost loved ones as a result, as well as
Despite the pandemic, the number of people fleeing wars, violence, persecution, and human rights violations in 2020 rose to nearly 82.4 million people, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ Global Trends report. This is a further 4 percent increase on top of the already record-high 79.5 million at the end of 2019.
Vet for human rights abuses and laws-or-war violations all units and agencies of KRG security forces that receive military aid and security assistance; Human Rights Watch, Iraq--On Vulnerable
June 13, 2023 Report. Iraqi security forces and pro-government militias committed possible war crimes during 2015 in their fight against the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, by
The UK is also conducting investigations of alleged human rights abuses by its forces. War crime tribunals and criminal prosecution of the numerous crimes by insurgents are likely years away. In late February 2009, the U.S. State Department released a report on the human rights situation in Iraq, looking back on the prior year (2008).
Murder of prisoners in a conflict is a war crime. and should punish fighters who commit abuses.” Human Rights Watch visited a camp for displaced people south of Mosul on December 11, and
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