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From Security to Power: Reconstituting the Syrian State
The conflict that has unfolded in Syria since 2011 represents more than a civil war; it signifies the disintegration of the social and political foundations of the state. As of 2025, the situation cannot be described either as a conventional…
The Post-2015 Kurdish Regime and Rojava
The year 2015 can be considered a critical threshold at which a clear shift in Turkey’s approach to the Kurdish political sphere became visible. During this period, prolonged security-oriented interventions implemented in Kurdish-majority provinces produced lasting effects on social and…
Algeria’s Parliament Adopts Law Criminalising French Colonisation
On 24 December 2025, Algeria’s Parliament unanimously adopted a law aimed at criminalising French colonisationduring the period from 1830 to 1962. The legislation characterises the colonial system as a framework of systematic and grave violations and explicitly raises the issue of state responsibility for acts…
Genocide, Impunity and the Rise of Ahmed al-Sharaa
ISIS’s attacks against the Yazidi population have been legally characterised as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (IICISAR). In its 2016 thematic…
UN: Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip
Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today. The Commission urges Israel and all States to fulfil their…
Unrecognized Tragedy: The Call for Êzîdî Genocide Recognition
Today, we solemnly commemorate the ninth anniversary of the horrific genocide committed by ISIS against the Êzîdî community in the Sinjar region of Mosul on August 3, 2014. This relentless attack resulted in the death of thousands of Yazidis Kurds,…
Starvation as Extermination in Gaza: A Legal Analysis
The military operations launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip in October 2023, and now approaching end of their second year, have come to be not only a conventional conflict zone but also a regime of mass extermination in which…
Recognition of Genocide in Victoria: Legal Reflections on a Historic Decision
In July 2025, the Yoorrook Justice Commission, an independent truth-telling body in the Australian state of Victoria, released its final report declaring that the state’s First Peoples were subjected to genocide during and after colonisation. This landmark acknowledgment is not…
Conference on LGBTQI+ Rights in Incarceration
The Mojust Foundation is pleased to announce an upcoming conference focusing on the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals in incarceration settings and beyond. This event aims to address the severe restrictions and inequalities faced by people identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual,…
Israeli strikes on Rafah: Call for respect of International Law
The Mojust Foundation (Mesopotamia Observatory of Justice) expresses its deepest indignation and concern over the recent Israeli strikes targeting a displaced persons camp in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of numerous civilians. This act constitutes a…