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End of Shift: What’s Your Story?

Roberta Gately, RN

By Roberta Gately, RN, BA Like so many others, I’ve wanted to write a novel for as long as I can remember. At the age of seven, I scrawled out a short story series about three young children for my mother. Though I barely remember their adventures, I do remember my mother’s smile as she [...]

April 18th, 2011 | Posted in Hazaristan | Read More »

More detention centre self-harm attempts

Hazara People

AAP Two asylum seekers are believed to have tried to take their own life at the Perth Immigration Detention Centre. The Immigration Department confirmed that early on Monday morning two male detainees had threatened self-harm but had been stopped by centre staff. “Neither detainees were injured and both are receiving appropriate medical checks as precautions,” [...]

April 18th, 2011 | Posted in Australia,Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Afghan MP rejects asylum seeker deportation deal

It is still unclear, however, whether Mr Hussein was killed or took his own life. (AAP - file image: Mick Tsikas)

Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Afghan MP rejects asylum seeker deportation deal by tvnportal

April 18th, 2011 | Posted in Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Grieving family fight for release of body

asylumboat

The Australian | Sarah Elks, North Queensland correspondent THE family of a young Afghan asylum-seeker who apparently committed suicide at the Scherger detention centre in far north Queensland is fighting Australian authorities over the repatriation of his remains. Nearly one month after the death of Meqdad Hussain, a 20-year-old Hazara man, his family is deeply [...]

April 14th, 2011 | Posted in Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Dozens of Hazara people were targeted and killed in Pakistan in 2010

Quetta shuts down to mourn blast victims/ Getty Images

Hazara people: Same as Afghanistan, dozens of Hazara people were targeted and killed by Pashtun Taliban in Pakistan. A new report released by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says dozens of Hazara people were killed in Pakistan in 2010. 118 people were killed and 40 injured in 117 targeted killings in Balochistan. They included 29 [...]

April 14th, 2011 | Posted in Asia Pacific,Hazara News,Human Rights | Read More »

Harvest

Ploughing

BY: Muzafar Ali The places in above and following photos are shot from Panjao, Waras (Bamyan Province) and Ashtarlai (Daikundi Province) districts on winter 2009 and spring 2010. In most part of Hazaristan (Central Afghanistan) winter season starts on late October and end on early March. When spring starts, snow still exists on the mountains. [...]

April 14th, 2011 | Posted in Afghanistan,Hazara News | Read More »

Afghanistan – A Positive View

The Hazaras - a kind and gentle people

Gentle isn’t perhaps the adjective that would immediately spring to mind when you think of the Afghan people. However with so much bad news coming out of Afghanistan, I felt compelled to write about an encounter I’ve just had with a sweet, gentle and hospitable group of people. They’re called Hazaras and they live in [...]

April 13th, 2011 | Posted in Afghanistan News,Hazaristan | Read More »

Journey from fear to a life of freedom

Najeeba

Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Journey from fear to a life of freedom BY: BRIANNA MCSHANE A SMILE from a Tasmanian woman called Susan changed Najeeba Wazefadost’s life when she arrived in Tasmania in 2001. Ms [...]

April 13th, 2011 | Posted in Australia,Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Ghazni: Pashtun Taliban blocked roads in Hazara areas

Ghazni: Pashtun Taliban blocked roads in Hazara areas

Pashtun Taliban have been blocked the roads in Ghazni province where Hazara people live. Local people and drivers say that Taliban have distributed a letter threatened people to do not pass Jaghori- Gharabagh road.

April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Afghanistan News,Hazara News,Hazaristan,Human Rights | Read More »

Refugee mental health crisis hits detention centres

Kids out of Detention protest, April 2, 2011, Melbourne.

By Jay Fletcher The suicide of Mohammed Asif Atay in Curtin detention centre on March 28 was “tragic news” to Prime Minister Julia Gillard. “I’m sure all Australians hearing this news would feel very sorry,” she said on March 29. He was the sixth known refugee to die in detention in the past seven months [...]

April 11th, 2011 | Posted in Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »