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Kabul: Hazara activists rally against Iranian regime

Kabul: Hazara activists rally against Iranian regime

Today, dozens of Hazara activists rallied against Iranian regime in Kabul.

No advantage, no work, dwindling hope: the asylum seeker’s lot

The result of Labor immigration policy is sanity-sapping limbo, people fleeing some of the world’s most troubled regions find     Lenore Taylor         The seven nervous Afghan men sitting on the floor along one wall of the tiny, dark flat in Melbourne’s outer west are the forgotten cargo from the boats that couldn’t be stopped. [...]

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Exposed to Unpredictable Horror

Esmael Darman Afghan children running away from the scene of the recent suicide attack in Kabul. Photo: Reuters Afghanistani citizens have been going through long periods of war for over the past 30 years. By now, millions have been displaced, hundreds of thousands killed or disabled, and the major infrastructures seriously damaged. Nevertheless, the war [...]

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Hazara Asylum seekers missing after boat sinks off coast of Indonesia

60 asylum seekers whose boat sunk in route to Australia, with Indonesian authorities still scrambling to launch a co-ordinated rescue effort. The boat was carrying as many as 72 people when it hit rocks off the coast of West Java. According to Indonesian search and rescue agency BASARNAS due to lack of information aerial search [...]

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Gole Badam Festival in Daykundi Province, the heart of Hazaristan

Three years ago the first Gole Badam Festival was held in Daykundi Province. In 2010 Hazara People International Network proposed to create this Festival in order to celebrate the almond tree’s florescence. Almonds are the main agriculture product in the Province and many families base their subsistence on it. While the rest of Afghanistan is [...]

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World Poetry Day: 324 Poets from 93 Countries Unite to Stop Genocide of Hazara

324 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as the presidents of the international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 93 countries have chosen to release an open letter to world leaders, this March 21st . They have chosen to observe World Poetry Day by [...]

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Poets from 88 Countries Demand Halt to Genocide against Hazara

  270 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as presidents of international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 88 countries have signed an open letter to world leaders, declaring their solidarity with the Hazara people. For more than a century, the Hazara people of [...]

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An open letter from World-wide Poets addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Dear Sirs, After more than a century of systematic crimes such as genocide, slavery, sexual abuse, war crimes, and discrimination, being a Hazara still appears to be a crime in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As recently as Thursday, January 10, 2013, more than one-hundred Hazara were killed in an organized terrorist attack on the city of [...]

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Discrimination against Hazara female air force pilots, Los Angeles Times reported.

  The two women in their 20s were trained in the U.S. how to fly military helicopters, but in Afghanistan, they have been ignored and put off by the air force.  Read full story on Los Angeles Times website.

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Pashtun extremists in RFE/RL are after Hazara Anti-Taliban commander Abdul Hakim Shujai

Hazara People International Network: It has been clearly mentioned in Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty mission statement that “RFE/RL combats ethnic and religious intolerance and promotes mutual understanding among peoples”. However, recent unprofessional and unbalanced news coverage by Dari and Pashtu sections of RFE/RL against an anti-Taliban commander who belongs to Hazara community is absolutely [...]

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