Tag Archives: poverty

Sirvan Doreh , has a history of membership in Komala

Sirvan Doreh: The reason of joining was solely poverty, unemployment, and lack of money. According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch from Sanandaj, due to lack of infrastructure development and high rates of poverty and unemployment in Iran’s border areas, especially Kurdish areas of Iran, young people in this region are facing chronic unemployment. […]

Unemployment and poverty: Sina Mafakheri’s reason for membership in KDPI Armed Group

Sina Mafakheri: All my personal and family problems made me escape and join the KDPI armed group. According to IKHRW, from Dehgolan, these problems are constantly a detrimental factor in the management of Kurdish areas in Iran. Due to poverty and unemployment, armed groups such as the KDPI deceive Kurdish young people and recruit them […]

The narrative of Saman Sobhani about a prison named PAK

Saman Sobhani, born on 20/1/1994 in Sanandaj, was a former member of the armed group PAK, who left Iran and joined this group due to poverty and lack of suitable and sufficient employment. According to IKHRW from Sanandaj, poverty, unemployment, and lack of access to basic healthcare, force many young Kurds in Iran to resort […]

Reasons for the joining of Navid Asadi in a Kurdish armed group

The social damages such as divorce and poverty; one of the reasons for the joining of Navid Asadi in a Kurdish armed group. According to IKHRW report from Sanandaj, one of the social damages in the current Iranian society is the high divorce rate and the damages inflicted on the family. After divorce, Child of […]

The Kurdish people of northern Iraq involved in poverty and corruption

Members of Parliament (MP) fighting physically. While all the Kurdish regions in West Asia are experiencing their most difficult times, and the developments in the region also do not have a specific direction to solve many crises at the regional, national and extra-regional levels, the release of a video from the recent meeting of the […]

Child soldier is a terrible word in the shadow of governments inaction

For many years, the topic of using children as a tool in regional wars in the world and especially in the Middle East has been of great interest. According to the reports published by the United Nations, many cases of the use of children in armed conflicts in regions such as Kurdistan and other regions […]

A shocking report from the mountains of Kurdistan; How Kolbar women suffer

Arasteh, a woman, has been kolbarring (illegally carrying goods from the border) with her husband for the last four years. She looks like a 50-year-old woman, but as she herself says that she is under 40. Arasteh only goes kolbarring twice a week. She is not able to continue any more. Mrs. Arasteh suffers from […]

Halabja survivor commits suicide

An Kurdish-Iraqi Halabja genocide survivor committed suicide today in Halabja, that was suffering from the financial difficulties and the Kurdistan Region Government’s carelessness to take care of the poor. I will translate the letter he left behind to understand the reasons behind his hopelessness: “My End When there is no bit of tranquility in life, […]