By Will Morrow Protests continue in Australian immigration detention centres against the Gillard Labor government’s regressive policies that have led to the dramatic increase in long-term detainees and rising levels of mental illness and self-harm...
Updated note/ 28.04.2011: Karzai and his fundamental team still try to change the election results in Ghazni. They do want to limit the Hazaras political rights. By Kamran Mir Hazar Updated Note/ 12.01.2010 : AIEC...
By Will Morrow Julia Eileen Gillard Labor’s Immigration Minister Chris Bowen yesterday announced changes to refugee laws that will further eviscerate the democratic rights of asylum seekers. The amendments will introduce new types of temporary...
Asylum seekers continue to hunger strike at Western Australia’s Curtin Immigration Detention Centre, but officials and refugee supporters differ over numbers involved. A peaceful protest at the Kimberley facility continued on Tuesday as Immigration Minister...
Hazara People: Our sources say that hundreds of Hazara asylum seekers are on a hunger strike fromThe Curtin Detention Centre, where asylum seekers are reportedly on a hunger strike. Picture: Nic Ellis Source: The Australian...
Sectarian killings have been mostly targeted against Hazara Shias, who came to Balochistan decades ago from Afghanistan and Iran. Police and counter-terrorism officials say that anti-Shia militant groups such as Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi...
Sarah Elks, North Queensland Correspondent From: The Australian Refugee advocates warn that violent protests could erupt at the newest mainland immigration detention centre, the remote Scherger RAAF Base on Cape York, just as they have...
Fatema Akbari is the owner of Gulistan Sadaqat Company, a furniture manufacturing business in Kabul. Founded in 2003, the business employs close to 100 Afghans, mostly women she has trained as carpenters. A widow herself,...
UPDATE 2.05pm: PROTESTERS remain on the roof of a Sydney immigration centre as the government said it would take a tough line on their claims. Buildings were set alight and rescue workers attacked overnight in...