Recent Posts

• June 18, 2009

  Sham justice: On the trial of Saleh Hama Ali in Iraqi-Kurdistan

  Press release 18 June 2009 Banaz Mahmod was gang-raped and killed in a brutal ‘honour’ killing in January 2006. Her father Mahmod Mahmod, her uncle Ari Mahmod and one of…

• February 23, 2009

  IKWRO to hold public meeting with IPCC regarding their investigation into police treatment of Banaz Mahmod

  Press release 23 February 2009 The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation was very disappointed by the collapse of the hearings by the Independent Police Complaints Commission relating to the…

• July 14, 2008

  Du’a Khalil: The price of her blood

  A statement from the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and the International Campaign Against Honour Killings 14 July 2008 On 7 April 2007 a teenager called Du’a Khalil Aswad…

• April 30, 2008

  Rand Abdel-Qader: In the name of love

  Statement by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation and the International Campaign Against Honour Killings 30 April 2008 There are few feelings that can compare with the passionate intensity…