Hengaw () or Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (, , ) is a
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
-based
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
human rights
Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...
NGO founded in 2016 for the purpose of reporting on the human rights violations against
Kurds in Iran
Kurds in Iran ( ku, کورد لە ئێران, translit=Kurdên Îranê, fa, کردها در ایران) constitute a large minority in the country with a population of around 9 and 10 million people.
Geography
Iranian Kurdistan or Eastern Ku ...
.
Their reporting on the treatment of
Kolbars has been used by the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
. Since 2022, their reporting on the crackdown of protesters in
Iranian Kurdistan during the
Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 was used by various international media outlets.
References
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Organisations based in Trondheim
Human rights abuses in Iran
Human rights in Kurdistan