The Jury awards SIMA SAMAR (Afghanistan) “for her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights, especially the rights of women, in one of the most complex and dangerous regions in the world”. It is the...
WHILE an Afghan asylum seeker won a last-minute court reprieve yesterday against deportation, a group of 18 Sri Lankan men detained on Christmas Island chose to return home rather than be sent to Nauru. But...
Iqbal Ahmad Oruzgani Iqbal Ahamd Urozgani is a civil engineering student at Kabul University. His hobbies are walking , biking ,taking photos, playing with kids and sharing and passing messages from Central Highlands Afghanistan to...
By: Engineer Rahmat Sharifi Mysterious! Mother: “Wake up son it is time for you to go to the library.” Me: “Ok, mother.” I woke up washed my face, brushed my teeth and got dressed in...
Last Saturday was just another day in 13-year-old Liaquat Ali’s house in Quetta. The young Hazara boy’s mother asked him to help her with some chores, but he wanted to go out. After some back...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — In the suburbs of Afghanistan’s capital on the third floor of a modest apartment building live newlyweds Mushtaq and Haleema Changezi. They tied the knot in a traditional ceremony just four...
By: Muhammad Zia Sultani, social activist Throughout the history the enemies of Hazaras have persistently tried to devise contentions and cripple these people economically, politically and most importantly morally. Several taxes were imposed and Afghan...
Jane Bardon Refugee advocate Vikki Riley A Darwin refugee advocate, who has been running art projects for asylum seekers in detention centres, has died after her bicycle collided with a car. Vikki Riley, 50, organised...
By Devinder Kumar Human Rights Watch has expressed concern about increasing violence against the minority Shia Muslim community in Pakistan and asked the government in Islamabad to protect it from sectarian attacks by Sunni militant...