Genocide

To the international community, human rights organizations, and United Nations Member States On this August 3, 2025, the Zagros Human Rights Center solemnly commemorates the eleventh anniversary of the genocide committed against the Yazidi community in the (Shengal) Sinjar region of Iraq. This tragedy remains one of the darkest chapters …

December 17, 2024 The Centre Zagros pour les Droits de l’Homme (Zagros Human Rights Center) welcomes the courageous decision of the Swiss National Council to recognize the Yazidi genocide committed by the Islamic State in 2014. This recognition marks an essential step towards justice for the victims and sends a …

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Yazidi genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS), the Zagros Center for Human Rights joins the international community in honoring the victims and expressing our solidarity with the survivors. In August 2014, the brutal attacks against the Yazidi community not only …

Today marks the somber anniversary of the massacre of Halabja, an unimaginable act of barbarity perpetrated against the civilian population of the Kurdish town of Halabja, in the province of As-Sulaymaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan, from March 16th to 19th, 1988. Nearly 5,000 Kurds were cruelly killed in chemical attacks ordered by …

  The civil war in Sri Lanka opposed, officially from 1983 to 2009, the government of Sri Lanka dominated by the Sinhalese Buddhist majority, and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ilam (LTTE), a separatist organization fighting for the creation of Tamil Eelam, an independent state in the east and north …