Mesopotamia Observatory of Justice - Mojust

09/01/2026

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 use of the Kurdish language in Turkey have gone beyond isolated incidents and have taken on a systematic and persistent character across areas including education, the judiciary, media, culture and the arts, and prisons.

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 rele…

05/01/2026

https://mojust.org/2026/01/05/the-instrumentalisation-of-law-and-transnational-force-the-maduro-case/

26/12/2025

11/12/2025

The case of Ahmed al-Sharaa illustrates the fault-line between law and realpolitik. Political rehabilitation of a leader who emerges from the jihadist landscape, and who is named in Yazidi testimony as bearing “Yazidi blood on his hands”, cannot be treated as a purely diplomatic manoeuvre. It directly intersects with existing obligations to prevent and punish genocide and to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity. International law does not demand that states refuse all contact with such figures. It does, however, require that survivors’ rights to truth and justice are not subordinated to short-term strategic considerations.

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 Internation…