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Human Rights Council Sixty-second session 15 June–10 July 2026 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* The …

Date: October 21, 2025 | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM EDT The Zagros Human Rights Center participated in the October 2025 virtual monthly meeting organized by NGO CSW/NY, held in preparation for the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) scheduled for March 2026. The event, titled “Justice …

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 …

Report – 26th Meeting of the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council The 26th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, dedicated to the adoption of Iraq’s final UPR report, was held on 2 July 2025 in Geneva. The session allowed representatives from the Iraqi government, UN member …

Commission on the Status of Women Sixty-ninth session 10–21 March 2025 Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”   Statement submitted by Centre Zagros pour les Droits …

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 …