ADELAIDE, Australia The Christmas Island Dentention Centre. Ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention center have sewn their lips together to protest the lengthy refugee application process. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen called the incident “distressing”...
By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, Vancouver Sun November 19, 2010 Dr. Sima Samar is a human rights activist who has risked her life to help women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Photograph by: ED KAISER, Postmedia News ____________________________________________________________________...
By Travis Lupick, November 18, 2010 Nine years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan continue to fight for basic human rights. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,...
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers November 17, 2010 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain’s chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly....
Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR will cover not one year but ten. It will track the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to...
By Daily Mail Reporter, 15th November 2010 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329650/Company-digging-Afghanistan-unearths-2-600-year-old-Buddhist-monastery.html#ixzz15OgNonLa A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. Archaeologists are rushing...
By Shabtai Gold Berlin – Afghanistan’s top human rights expert has said openly that her country is not where she wants it to be nine years after the Taliban was overthrown, and promises the long...
Liaquat Ali Hazara, Nov 14, 2010 The collapse of the Taliban in 2001 persuaded the Afghan nationals to rejoice and celebrate as they wished to take the reign of the government in their hands. The...
AAP November 15, 2010 AN investigation will be held into a brawl involving about 50 unaccompanied Afghan asylum-seeker boys at a Melbourne immigration detention centre. Department of Immigration spokesman Sandi Logan said the boys were...
By Kathy Gannon (CP) Afghanistan's ethnic minorities into taking their weapons out of mothballs and preparing for a fight.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s moves to make peace with the...