The launching of this historical period represented a brilliant opportunity to enable resistance based upon democratic values, Kurdish identity and the preparation, organisation and implementation of People’s Protection Units, YPG, as an immediate necessity to...
While the Assad regime has long had a great deal of innocent blood on its hand and now may be guilty of using chemical weapons, this is not a sufficient reason for the United States and its Western allies to bomb Syria. In the first place we are not even certain...
Voicing concerns over increasing attacks against lawyers’ independence in Turkey, the president of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA) has sent a letter to the country’s prime minister, urging Turkish officials to immediately end any action...
Margaret Owen OBE 36 Faroe Road, London, W14 0EP Telephone: 44 (0) 207 603 9733 [email protected] August 21st 2013 Urgent Plea to President Barack Obama, by Margaret Owen Dear President Obama, As lawyers and as women human rights...
The number of refugees fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan totaled 17,000, the U.N.’s refugee agency said, adding that this was one of the biggest single exoduses of refugees to have taken place since the uprising began in March 2011. The refugees had to cross a mobile...
