Hazara pop singer Dawood Sarkhosh has performed in Sydney as part of his Australian tour. ABC News Also: Dawood Sarkhosh in Japani’s TV When I stand before God at the end of my life, I...
Phil Mercer | Sydney, 04 October 2010: The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed Australia’s decision to lift a freeze on the processing of claims from Afghan asylum seekers. In April, Canberra said it was...
Oct. 4 (Bloomberg) — Human rights advocate Sima Samar may become the first person from Afghanistan to Dr. Sima Samarwin the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote women’s health and education, according to...
By Jim McIlroy, BrisbanePeople's Assembly for Refugees. Canberra, September 29. Photo: Peter Boyle People’s Assembly for Refugees. Canberra, September 29. Photo: Peter Boyle “After the election: What now for refugee rights?” was the theme of...
Martine van Bijlert, 02-10-2010: Afghanistan’s parliamentary election, as is by now well-known, is seriously pulled out of balance by fraud, insecurity and an unusual variation of the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV), an electoral system that...
By KARL RITTER and BJOERN H. AMLAND Associated Press Writers STOCKHOLM—As the secretive Nobel Prize committees huddle for their final deliberations to select the 2010 winners, the question looms large: Are the jurors preparing another...
# Joe Kelly/ # From: The Australian REFUGEE groups fear a “flawed” government assessment of Afghanistan will unfairly taint asylum-seekers’ applications to stay in Australia. The assessment by the Australian embassy in Kabul, dated February...