About YASA

Definition and Objectives: 

YASA is a non-governmental and non-profit organization working to promote and advance human rights to Kurds in their country of origin and in the Diaspora. YASA was founded in August 2005, in Bonn, and now works for the interests of Kurds in the areas of human rights, integration and culture. 

On the political level, YASA operates through the use of national, regional and international legal instruments and works with governmental and non-governmental organizations, which also promote the implementation of human rights.

Through information events and seminars, YASA promotes cultural tolerance, works toward the integration of Kurds in Europe and supports Kurdish refugees. YASA also focuses on promoting the understanding of the German legal system and the German culture, so that integration into German society can successful. 

Since 2007, YASA has annually organized the Kurdish Poetry Festival and offers language courses to promote the Kurdish culture and language.


Support: 

If you are interested in any of the above-mentioned objectives and their implementation you can support YASA through membership, donation or volunteer work.

Donations can be sent directly to the following bank account: 
Account holder: Kurdish Centre for Legal Studies and Consultancy - YASA e.V. 
Account No: 1937128294 
Bank code: 37050198 
Sparkasse Köln Bonn 

If you are interested in a promotional or standard membership, please fill in the Online form.

Reports

- YASA monthly report - Juli 2011 PDF

- YASA monthly report - February 2011 PDF

- YASA monthly report - January 2011 PDF

- YASA monthly report - December 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - November 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - October 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - September 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - August 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - July 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - May and June 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - April 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - March 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - February 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - January 2010 PDF

- YASA monthly report - December 2009 PDF

- YASA monthly report - November 2009 PDF

- YASA monthly report - October 2009 PDF

- YASA monthly report - September 2009 PDF

- YASA monthly report - August 2009 PDF

- YASA monthly report - July 2009 PDF

- Violence against women – Reasons, forms and consequences Kurdish women as an example
Dr. Midia Abdul Majid Mahmoud PDF 

- Report about the stateless and not-registered Kurds in Syria
Committees for the defence of democracy freedoms and human rights in Syria PDF

- The past and the present of book publishing in Kurdish language in Syria
Next Page Foundation - conducted by M. Malmisanij PDF

- Syria: Kurds, Honour-killings and Illegal Departure 
Report from a fact finding mission to Damascus - Danish Immigration Service. PDF

- The Situation of stateless Kurds in Syria
Written by Eva Savelsberg and Siamend Hajo (German PDF)

- The Syria - Turkey Boundary
Office of the Geographer - Bureau of Intelligence and Research in English PDF and in Arabic 
PDF

- YASA Statement about the situation and requirements of the Kurds in Syria at the twelvth 
session of the Working Group on Minorities in Geneva from 8 to 11 August 2006. PDF

- The reply of the representative of the Syrian gevernment at the twelvth 
session of the Working Group on Minorities in Geneva from 8 to 11 August 2006. PDF

- The Kurds of Syria - An existence denied
Harriet Montgomery. PDF

- The Kurdish Reawakening in Syria
Gary C. Gambill, editor of Mideast Monitor. PDF

- Kurds in the Syrian Arab Republic one year after the March 2004 events.
Amnesty International. PDF

- Communication against Syria. 
Submitted by Jian Badrakhan to the UN 2005. PDF

- Buried Alive: Stateless Kurds in Syria
Maureen Lynch and Perveen Ali, Refugees International. PDF

- The Syrian Kurds: A People Discovered
Robert Lowe, Chatham House. PDF

- Report of the Working Group on Minorities on its eleventh session 
(Geneva, 30 May to 3 June 2005) PDF

- Statement about the situation and requirements of the Kurds in Syria in the eleventh
session of the Working Group on Minorities in Geneva from 30 May to 3 June 2005. 
(Aref Gabeau in Arabic) PDF

- Statement about the situation and requirements of the Kurds in Syria in the eleventh 
session of the Working Group on Minorities in Geneva from 30 May to 3 June 2005.
(Jian Badrakhan in English) PDF

- Communication against Syria submitted by Jian Badrakhan to the UN. PDF

- The silenced Kurds - Human Rights Watch PDF