Reading Violence Against Women from the Perpetrator to the Structure
Violence against women is often addressed within the narrow boundaries of criminal law. When a woman is killed, disappears, is subjected to sexual assault, or dies under suspicious circumstances, the first questions usually concern the identity of the perpetrator, the…
UN Experts raise alarm over rights defenders in Türkiye
UN Special Rapporteurs have raised concerns with the Turkish government over the prosecution, detention, alleged ill-treatment and police violence targeting human rights defenders and lawyers, including Hatice Onaran, Suna Bilgin, Osman Süzen, Mehmet Acettin, Tuğba Kahraman, İsmail Boyraz and Sabri…
In memoriam for the victims of Armenian Genocide
April 24th marks the 111th anniversary of Metz Yeghern -the Great Evil – when more than one million men, women, and children were exterminated by the ottoman nationalist government in Mesopotamia. Armenian Genocide in 1915 was a prelude to a…
UN Report: Torture in Palestine Presented as a Structural Component of Genocide
In her new report Torture and genocide, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese argues that since 7 October 2023 torture against Palestinians has not been limited to detention sites or interrogation rooms. According to the…
Mojust remembers solemnly the massacre of Halabja
The Mesopotamia Observatory of Justice, Mojust, remembers solemnly the mass massacre perpetrated on March 16, 1988 in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq by former dictator Saddam Hussein’s forces. Facing the artillery and air strikes, Kurdish forces had withdrawn to…
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…