The odds were against us! “If you want to go to Rojava” so they told us “you can only cross the border from Iraq or illegaly”. One day of waiting in Suruç and countless times of presenting our passports, however finally succeeded in us walking over the turkish-syrian border legally, right on time as the sun went down.

At some point it seems, it had to hit us as well. For quite a time now representatives of other aid organisations active in North Syria kept asking us how we managed to get over the border of Turkey and Syria so easily.

For the time being, state institutions, as well as the Slovenian Red Cross disallowed any support of the refugees arriving at the border. At this moment we, as CADUS, mainly try to concentrate on our work in the regions of North Syria. Nevertheless, as two weeks ago we were asked to support structures at the …

It has been almost a year since our first training team in Rojava visited the border town of Sere Kaniye (Ras al Ain) and its local hospital. The city was occupied by the so-called Islamic State until the Kurdish YPG/YPJ forces liberated it in 2013.

For the past three months the Turkish AKP government has increasingly been taking action against their own population in the southeast of the country which is predominantly Kurdish. Under the guise of the war on terror entire cities are being placed under siege, residential areas attacked with heavy weapons, …

The European Union's policy of isolation enters the next round. Battleships are supposed to fix the situation. Instead of increased militarization, CADUS calls for a political solution that enables legal migration for refugees into the EU.

The NGOs Sea-Watch and CADUS announced their latest cooperation by launching their new lifeboat named „H.E. Thomsen" in Berlin today. Godfather of the boat is Syrian YouTube Star Firas Alshater. The project managers sharply criticised the current performance of both the EU and NATO mission in front of the Greek …

So besinnlich die Feiertage und der Jahreswechsel bei uns auch gewesen sein mögen, an den Außengrenzen Europas herrschen nach wie vor Ausgrenzung, Hunger und Kälte.

Hilfstransport in Idomeni angekommen – wenig Hoffnung für Refugees an der griechisch-mazedonischen Grenze

Die fragile Waffenruhe in weiten Teilen Syriens hat etwas eindrucksvoll in den Fokus gerückt, was uns allen schon fast entfallen war: Der blutige Bürgerkrieg ist kein Selbstzweck! Er ist die Folge einer Revolution, die nach wie vor von Menschen auf der Straße gelebt und verteidigt wird.