05 Aug 2016
URGENT ACTION A new paradigm of discrimination a further marginalisation On 6th July 2016 on the first day of Eid Al-Fetr, the Ahwazi Arabs from Al-Noemeye (Nakhal-Taghi) city in south Al-Ahwaz in Asaluya region have protested against the Iranian policies in the region. The Iranian new paradigms make Ahwazi to face critical situations, such as unemployment, marginalisation, siege programmer, segregation, ghetto and pollution. There are other problems such as homelessness; Illiteracy and changing the demography of Arab regions usually threaten the existence of the Arabs in their locations. T
19 Jul 2016
Ahwazis should be rich: instead they’re mired in medieval poverty The medieval poverty and deprivation suffered by the Ahwazi Arab people are made more bitterly ironic by the fact that their lands are the location of over two-thirds of the oil and gas reserves claimed by Iran, worth tens of billions of dollars annually. Despite the wealth of oil and gas extracted from underneath their feet, with the state-run Mehr News Agency noting that over 70 percent of Iran’s oil and gas resources are in the Ahwaz region (also known as Khuzestan province), Ahwazis continue to live in Third World subs
17 Jul 2016
URGENT ACTION Iran must stop killing Ahwazi Arabs Four Ahwazi Arab from different cities in Al-Ahwaz were killed by the Iranian security guard, and a massive number have detained and are keeping in solitary confinement according to the reliable sources inside Al-Ahwaz. On 6th July 2016 on the first day of Eid Al-Fetr, the Ahwazi Arabs from Al-Noemeye (Nakhal-Taghi) city in south Al-Ahwaz in Asaluya region have protested against the Iranian policies in the region, in which caused unemployment, demographic change, segregation, ghetto, pollution and other violations. Therefore, one p
18 Apr 2016
URGENT ACTION Continuing of violation of Human Rights during the anniversary of Intifada Introduction Keywords: geography, anniversary of Ahwazi Intifada, current violation of human rights in Ahwaz, most recent case of violation of human rights. Geography Al-Ahwaz is located in the South and south-west of Iran, and is bounded on the west by the Iraqi territory and on the south by Arabian Gulf and from the north by the Zagros Mountains. The name of Al-Ahwaz was changed by the Iranian regime during Reza Pahlavi era to Khuzestan, Bushehr and Hormozgan in 1935. The natural resources
05 Apr 2016
The rise of cesarean surgeries among Arab women In almost every country in the world couples get to decide on how many children they want to have. This is their basic rights as human beings, to be given a choice, and to decide for their selves. From the beginning of human kind we were born to reproduce. Long ago each family had at least seven or eight children. Why do they have so many children? The survival of the children would benefit the parents, and the population of a certain group. When a group of people goes to war, most likely the people are going to have more children to carry the
05 Apr 2016
Children in Al-Ahwaz What does every child want? They want to be in a country where they can have a future. They want to be in a place where they do not feel judged every day. Thousands of Ahwazi children live a very difficult life. They feel pressured by internal and external factors. The first seven years of an Ahwazi child is spent speaking his/her mother tongue. Once they enter elementary school everything changes. They are judged, criticized, and manipulated by teachers and other students. One of the reasons they get criticized is because they do not know Persian. They do not know Persi
23 Jan 2016
Ethnic cleansing and oppression practices of Iranian regime against Ahwazi Arab villages Since the former eras of Pahlavi dynasty until the emergence of the Islamic Republic regime we have seen that the Arab villages of Ahwaz region in the south and south west of Iran have always been subjected to ethnic cleansing policies and systematically dragged into destruction. This report focuses on gruesome evidence of the ethnic cleansing practices carried out by the subsequent Iranian regimes against the Ahwazi Arab villages, which are mostly located on the border strip with Iraq. The crimes