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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…
Report: Pressure on the Kurdish language continues in Turkey
The annual report titled “Systematic Violations Against the Kurdish Language and Culture in Turkey – 2025”, prepared by Kurdish Monitoring with the contributions of Mojust Foundation, has been released to the public. The report shows that throughout 2025, violations targeting the public…
Iran: The rupture of legitimacy and the security cartel
The ability of the modern state to maintain its monopoly on violence depends not only on the “legality” of that violence, but also on the existence of a minimum level of social legitimacy (Weber, 1978). What has become visible in…
Denmark Admits Responsibility for Coercive Birth Control in Greenland
The government of Denmark has issued a formal apology to Greenlandic women who were subjected to coercive birth control practices during the second half of the twentieth century. For decades, thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with intrauterine…
The Instrumentalisation of Law and Transnational Force: The Maduro Case
The current crisis of international law is often described as an “increase in violations.” Yet the problem is not only the breach of norms. The more structural problem is that the language of norms and rights is increasingly taking an…
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…
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,…