For the last few days, hundreds of diplomats and politicians of various importance have gathered in New York to Talk About Syria. News media has been abuzz with the back and forth like high schoolers passing notes. Russia did what? …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Foreign Affairs, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentThe death of a Kurdish youth in Harasta on Thursday morning and the injury of three protesters in Qamişlo were a result of the sniper fire of the Syrian regime, which has killed over 5,000 civilians since the start of …
Posted in Activism, Awareness, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, kurdish rights, Kurds, Syria | Leave a commentIstanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …
Posted in Awareness, Censorship, Civil Rights, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Tagged kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | 4 CommentsFor the third day now, protesters in Egypt have been subjected to another round of horrifying violence by the counterrevolutionary forces of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. Protester have staged a completely peaceful sit-in in front of Egyptian cabinet …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Egypt | Tagged Egypt | Leave a commentThere are at least 120,000 Bidun jinsiyya (without nationality) in Kuwait today suffering from the lack of human rights. They cannot legally obtain birth, death, marriage or divorce certificates. The same applies to driving licenses, identification cards, and passports. They …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Kuwait | Tagged Kuwait | 3 CommentsBahrain continues its crackdown on the country’s human rights advocates, adding Zainab Al Khawaja amongst its growing list of political prisoners, many of whom underwent severe psychological abuse, sexual humiliation and physical torture. Zainab is one of Bahrain’s most prominent …
Posted in Activism, Bahrain, Censorship, Demonstrations, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights | Tagged Bahrain | Leave a commentA new stage of the Syrian revolution has begun. After nine months of brutality and a conservative death toll at 5,000, Syrians are still congregating and protesting in the usual manner, but the local coordinating committees have brought out a new tool …
Posted in Civil Rights, Current Events, Demonstrations, Syria | Tagged Syria | Leave a commentTunisians are keeping an eye on the representatives they elected on October 23. Occupy Bardo is a open sit-in held in front of the National Constituent Assembly premises, seat of the former Camber of Deputies to demand transparency of the …
Posted in Activism, Civil Rights, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Education, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Tunisia, Youth | Tagged Tunisia | 1 CommentSome of the strongmen of the Middle East are no longer in the picture, but who, and what, will come to replace them? Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Egypt is a case in point. Certainly, there was a sense of hope …
Posted in Activism, Current Events, Democracy, Demonstrations, Economy, Freedom of Speech, Middle East, Politics, Regional Issues | Tagged Egypt, Middle East | 2 CommentsThis Thursday, November the 17th, We’ll gather in front of the American University in Iraq-Sulaimani (AUIS) campus to support the righteous struggle of the Syrian people. Yes, we do. We support the Syrian people and their righteous uprising against tyranny. …
Posted in Current Events, Demonstrations, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria | Tagged Kurdistan, Syria | Leave a comment