Agreement on delivery of Kurdish refugees to Syria

On 14.7.2008 the German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his Syrian counterpart Bassam Abdelmajid signed an agreement on the delivery of Syrian refugees living in Germany.

Affected by this agreement are mainly members of the oppressed Kurdish minority in Syria, who have chosen Germany as a country of refuge. A considerable number of those people do not enjoy the civil and political rights in Syria because their nationality was arbitrarily withdrawn by the government or they were born as stateless.

The agreement between the two countries defines the steps of implementation in detail, e.g. according to Article 1, section 3 of the protocol to the Agreement, ".... if the nationality of the person cannot be proven or shown credibly with the provided documents, the diplomatic representation of the requested Party on a request of the Authority is to hold a hearing with the person concerned immediately...".

To read the agreement and the protocol in German please click here PDF

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Violence against women – Reasons, forms and consequences
Kurdish women as an example

Dr. Midia Abdul Majid Mahmoud

Men justify violence against women through social customs and sometimes through interpretations of religious texts, such as (Suret Al Nisaa 4.34) the Quran: "As to those women on whose part you see ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and beat them". 

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