Sunday 31 October 2010 by: David Smith-Ferri, t r u t h o u t Again and again in this isolated Afghan province, when visiting Afghan people in their homes or when talking with members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers (AYPV), we have heard this message: “We want to know the people of the [...]
She was from Bamyan and was killed by Iranian border police last week.
Brussels, 21 October 2010 – The Belgian Foreign Minister, Melchior Wathelet, has decided to no longer transfer asylum seekers to Greece, a country which does not respect the rights of refugees. Belgium will process their asylum applications instead. Amnesty International, CIRE, the Belgian Committee for Support to Refugees, JRS Belgium and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen have all [...]
QUETTA: Four men have been gunned down on Masjid Road Thursday evening. Ali Akbar, Samad, Jaffar Abbas and Abid were targeted when they were going to homes in their vehicle from the shop. All men belong to Hazara tribe and police said that it was a sectarian killings in the city. The relatives of the [...]
LIAM PENDER, 28 Oct, 2010: FREE speech can often be taken for granted by Australians but for the refugee Hazara people from Afghanistan it is a gift to be treasured. This month the radio airwaves of Parramatta and Holroyd were graced for the first time by the Hazaragi language (a dialect of Persian). Keen to [...]
By JERICA ARENTS Kabul, Afghanistan: After a week visiting Bamiyan, a rural Afghan Province, one thing has been made abundantly clear to me: the experience of being a woman in this country is much different than being a woman in the United States. Here, the inescapable and indelible fact of gender colors social interactions, far [...]
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Brussels deploys new force in attempt to curb entry of hundreds of illegal migrants a day via large unmonitored area Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Samos guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 October 2010 19.01 BST A new force of armed European guards is to be dispatched to Greece to patrol the country’s border with [...]
Afghanistan has a significant Shiite minority, most of whom are ethnic Hazaras and who suffered particularly harsh persecution during Taliban rule, which has led to a strong reservoir of support in that community for the NATO mission. Areas under Hazara control have seen the least armed resistance to the international military presence. For example, New [...]
By lucy buckland lucy.buckland@essnmedia.co.uk CROYDON Council failed three teenagers from war-torn Afghanistan by not giving them access to any education for almost ten months. At a High Court hearing on Tuesday, it emerged the 14-year-old unaccompanied asylum seekers had been trying to get into a mainstream secondary school since they arrived in the borough in [...]
