Robert Maier Breaking news from Kabul today informs us that a demonstration by men, women and children to call attention to the violence being perpetrated against the Hazara people turned bloody, with several shot to...
Police station in western district of Kabul has burnt in flame by protesters, also there is a very thick smoke can be seen in Pole Khoshk. The number of protesters against the criminal Nomads and...
Lauryn Oates, Last summer, I had the good fortune to work with a young Afghan law student, Farshad*. He was my research assistant in a study I worked on to do with the legal rights...
I received a note from Amnesty International today about how our xenophobic society is still disobeying international law in turning refugees away. I’ve used much of Graham Thom’s email below, adding some of my own...
Asylum seekers continue to simmer as an election issue. Catherine Naylor tells the harrowing story of a child forced to seek safe shelter on his own. Qadir Fedayee was a 14-year-old boy when he last...
Shaima Rezayee became a pop culture icon for Afghan youth, as the host of “Hop,” a music show on a private television network. Her appearances on the show, often wearing make-up and without a burqa,...
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG KABUL, Afghanistan—When U.S.-trained agents from an anticorruption task force raided the headquarters of the nation’s largest “hawala” money-transfer business, they caught many people by surprise: the company’s politically connected executives, the nation’s...
As ethnic Hazaras in Afghanistan, Najeeba and her family faced constant abuse, threats and violence. That’s why they risked their lives to travel on a leaky boat to Australia, in search of a life free...
“Do not commit cruelty and do not let cruelty be committed on you because this was objective of (Imam) Hussain (AS) and logic of religion.” This banner is hanged outside a mosque in Mandiyag Village...
August 10, 2010, Amnesty InternationalThe Taliban and other insurgent groups should be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said today, following the release of a United Nations report showing a rise in targeted...