February 3^rd, 2026: In January of 2026, Alliance Network 19 (supervised by Metro Center) monitored 113 peaceful civil activities in Kurdistan Regional Government cities, 86% of which were in support of Rojava and protest against the Syrian army's attacks and harm to the civilian population in those areas.

The civic activities monitored by the Alliance Network 19 included:

(77) rallies, (17) marches, (16) press conferences, (2) street closures, (1) strikes.

Activities by location:

(47) activities in Sulaimani (42%),

 (24) activities in Erbil (21%),

 (9) activities in Duhok (8%),

 (6) activities in Halabja (5%),

 (15) activities in Raperin administration with (13%),

 (8) activities in Garmian Autonomous Administration (7%),

 (4) Activities in Soran Autonomous Administration (4%).

Type of requests:

(98) demonstrations were in support of Rojava, which accounted for (86%) of the activities, (2) activities for services (2%), (1) for salary (1%), (1) for rights of the disabled (1%), (1) for students’ rights (1%), (1) for the Rule of law (1%), (8) activities were for different demands (7%), and (1) activity for animal rights (1%).

Alliance Network 19 about monitoring the civil and peaceful demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of citizens in the Kurdistan Region in the past month, announces:

Instead of party flags, the Kurdistan flag covered the scene of the demonstration. There was no appearance of violence and the security forces successfully protected the activities.

Our observers in all cities of the Kurdistan Region have not recorded any violence against women, hate speech was very weak and if it was felt, it had nothing to do with the discourse of the demonstrations, environmental protection and the participation of women and youth were at a high level.

Network 19, established by a group of human rights organizations and defenders, is supervised by Metro Center, which upholds the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments on rights and freedoms, especially Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.