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Kurdish Population Faces New Challenges During Civil War

By DC Editors - October 17, 2012 Leave a Comment

Conflicts With Kurdish Population in Neighboring Countries Make Politics Highly Unstable

Iran Dictatorship Internal Violence Reminicint of North Korea

By Adrian Tawfik - October 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Rape, Torture and Murder Are Common For Any Group That Dissents in System Behind Iran Dictatorship Internal Violence

Iran Dictatorship Launches Crackdown on Iranian People

By DC Editors - February 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Fear reigns with escalated public executions while Iran dictatorship launches crackdown on freedom of expression ahead of this week’s parliamentary election

Russia Must Release Crimean Political Prisoners and Civic Activists (7/14/2019) - Russian government’s systematic practice imprisoning Crimean residents because of their religious beliefs, ethnicity, civic activity…

Experts Urge Tajikistan To Comprehensively Address Enforced Disappearances

Experts Urge Tajikistan To Address Enforced Disappearances (7/7/2019) - Tajikistan faces significant challenges in dealing with the issue of enforced disappearances.“We leave Tajikistan with…

Jordanian Government Strengthens Crackdown on Political Opponents (7/5/2019) - The crackdown comes at a time when Jordanian activists started protests over economic conditions in…

Saudi Women’s Rights Defenders Remain In Prison And On Trial (6/29/2019) - GCHR reiterates calls for Saudi Arabia to immediately free all human rights defenders who have…

Egypt Disappears Housing Rights Activist Ibrahim Ezz El-Din (6/28/2019) - The World Movement for Democracy is concerned about the forced disappearance of El-Din, head of…

Iran’s Women Rights Defenders Ailing In Solitary Confinement (6/24/2019) - GCHR is concerned for the health of imprisoned women human rights defenders in Iran including…

Behind Populist Authoritarianism: Brazil and Other Recent Hellscapes (7/12/2019) - Brazil is a country whose citizenry rarely enjoy good governance. They were doing well in…

How ‘Warlord Democrats’ Threaten Africa’s Democratic Moment (6/26/2019) - In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there…

Why Dictatorships Are Always Step Away From Legitimacy Crisis (6/25/2019) - Third wave” of autocratization which first gained momentum in mid 1990’s has developed across the…

China’s 30 Years of Rights Violations Tied to 1989 Tiananmen Massacre (6/18/2019) - Gross violations of human rights in connection to the 1989 massacre and to the consistent…

Uighur Writer Died at Chinese Internment Camp, Family Says (6/17/2019) - A prominent Uighur writer, who had been held at an internment camp in China’s Xinjiang…