Formation | 2016 |
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Type | Organization for Human Rights |
Headquarters | Trondheim, Norway |
Website | hengaw |
Hengaw (Kurdish: هەنگاو) or Hengaw Organization for Human Rights (Kurdish: Dezgehe Mafê Mirovan a Hengawê, ڕێکخراوی هەنگاو بۆ مافەکانی مرۆڤ, Persian: سازمان حقوق بشری هنگاو) is a Norway-based Kurdish human rights NGO founded in 2016 for the purpose of reporting on the human rights violations against Kurds in Iran.[1][2] Their reporting on the treatment of Kolbars has been used by the United Nations.[3] Since 2022, their reporting on the crackdown of protesters in Iranian Kurdistan during the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 has been used by various international media outlets.[2][4][5][6]