QUETTA: In a fresh wave of target killings, three people were killed and another injured seriously when unidentified armed men attacked them at two different places of the provincial capital on Wednesday. Police said that...
Dec 14, 2010 Jerica Arents and Mary Dean are with Voices for Creative Non-violence. Jerica recently spent time in Afghanistan and Mary was in Iran. And they’re here to tell us about what they saw...
Tom Allard JAKARTA December 16, 2010 AUSTRALIA’S promise this year to resettle 500 refugees stuck in Indonesia will fall woefully short. Asylum seekers say the backlog of applications is encouraging people to make the perilous...
The Australian, December 15, 2010 THE death toll from the asylum-seeker boat crash at Christmas Island is believed to be 50, with 33 others injured, the Royal Flying Doctor Service said. A photograph taken by...
For over 200 years, the Hazaras have suffered the worst genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced population displacement that favored the Pushtuns. The historical Hazara homeland, Hazarajat or Hazaristan, has been carved every which way to...
THE GREENS | Spokesperson Sarah Hanson-Young Tuesday 14th December 2010 Sarah Hanson-YoungAny agreement by the Federal Government to send asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan is another signal that the Prime Minister doesn’t understand the plight of...
Buddhistartnews on December 13, 2010 The remains of ancient Buddhist art at Bamiyan, photographed by Alex Masi The remains of ancient Buddhist art are photographed on the walls of the caves inside the Buddhas of...
Paul Maley and Lanai Vasek From: The Australian December 14, 2010 AUSTRALIA and Afghanistan have finalised an agreement that will pave the way for hundreds of failed asylum-seekers to be returned to Kabul. In a...
Afghanistan – Researched and compiled by the Refugee Documentation Centre of Ireland on 7 December 2010 Treatment of Hazara by government forces, November 2009 – November 2010. Hazara People/ Photo by Najib Musafer A report...
By George Mesthos — Special to GlobalPost Published: December 13, 2010 ATHENS, Greece — Afghan Muhammid Yonous knows something about living in a war zone. “I’ve drawn a red line around this area on a...