Authorities in Iran have launched an ‘intensified crackdown’ on the human rights of women and girls, activists say ...

Among the candidates is Tawar Salari, a Kurdish woman originally from western Iran's Rojhilat region, born in Koya in the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior ...

January 10, 2013 – (FRANCE) Three Kurdish women are found shot dead in Paris, one of whom was a founding member of the PKK. March 21, 2013 – (TURKEY) Imprisoned PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An Iranian-Kurdish woman was found dead in the Canadian city of Windsor on Friday, police said on Saturday. She had been missing for more than two months. The cause of death ...

Here’s a look at Kurdish people. Kurds do not have an official homeland or country. Most reside within countries in the Middle East including northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, western Iran and small ...