Statement

On this International Women’s Day, the Zagros Center joins in celebrating the courage and resilience of women worldwide. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has chosen the theme “Investing in the Mobilizing Role and Participation of Women and Girls for Peace” to mark this …

The regions of northern and eastern Syria, characterized by their ethnic and religious diversity, are currently witnessing a destructive military escalation by Turkey. This escalation has devastating consequences, deliberately targeting vital infrastructure, oil and energy sources, as well as crucial facilities for the survival of the civilian population. Among the …

Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 8 Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action   Written statement* submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status The Treaty of Lausanne(1), signed on July 24, …

Human Rights Council Fifty-fifth session 26 February–5 April 2024 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development   Written statement* submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status …

Human rights organizations; Issuing the death sentence against four Kurdish political prisoners is strongly condemned and contradicts all the fundamentals of human rights With the death sentence of four Kurdish political prisoners named Pejman Fatehi, Wafa Azarbar, Mohsen Mazloum and Mohammad (Hajir) Faramarzi and the referral of the case to …

This forum took place on December 2 and 3, 2021, at the Human Rights Council. Oral statement of the Zagros Center for Human Rights Fourteenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues Point 3: International legal and institutional framework: human rights of minorities and conflict prevention   Madame President, The …

Oral Statement of Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme (Zagros Human Rights Center), Mr. Baban ELIASSI 12th session of the Forum on minority issues in Geneva, 28 November 2019 Item 3: Public policy objectives for education in, and the teaching of, minority languages Madam Chair, Iran is one of …

15 October 2019   Amid ongoing fighting in northern Syria and disturbing reports that extrajudicial killings have been streamed online, the United Nations and their partners are continuing to deliver humanitarian supplies to tens of thousands of people displaced by the violence, UN agencies stressed on Tuesday.   Briefing journalists …

A number of international personalities and organizations in an open letter to the UN Secretary-General, the UN High-Commissioner for Refugees and the UN High-Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern over the situation in Rojava (Syria) and the consequences of the invasion of the region by Turkey.   the Open letter …

The 10th session of U.N. Forum on Minority    

PART ONE (17 March 2014):   PART TWO (17 March 2014):   PART THREE (17 March 2014):   PART FOUR (17 March 2014):