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RefugeesAsylum policy may face legal challenge
Source The government’s moratorium on processing protection claims from Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers is clearly in breach of international law, the Greens say. Greens spokeswoman on immigration and human rights Sarah Hanson-Young called...
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News‘1325 Civilians Killed in Afghan War This Year’
According to a report published by AIHRC, the civilian death rates in Afghanistan, mostly committed by the government opposition forces, have been increasing since 2001. Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) says the report is...
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Human RightsMassacre Stories of 2001
11 years on from horrific massacre of ethnic Hazara population in Yakawlang District of Bamyan by the Taliban; Abdul Wahid from Mandiyag Village; son of a victim still remembers those days which changed everything in...
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Human RightsHazara Human Rights Activist Dr. Sima Samar Talks at the Oslo Freedom Forum
In her talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum, Dr. Sima Samar explains how 31 years of war and invasion has forced Afghan society to become very conservative and unfriendly toward human rights and especially the...
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News6 Americans on medical team killed in Afghanistan
By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press Writer Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Writer Copyright: Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan – Ten members of a medical team, including six Americans, were shot and killed by militants as they were...
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RefugeesIranian border police wound 8 Afghans
Ramin – Aug 7, 2010, Ghulam Sakhi, who was shot three times in the leg, said after they were caught Iranian officials tied their hands and pulled them behind their vehicles for a long distance....
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Pakistan and the rest of Asia PacificHazara Community Feel Effects Of Devastating Pakistan Floods
Copyright: Getty Images KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 7: Hazara families among families from other ethnic groups , hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on August 7,...
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NewsCorruption Battle Continues in Afghanistan
By Ian Graham Emerging Media, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2010 – It can’t be shot, it can’t be destroyed with a mortar or rocket-propelled grenade, and most of the time it can’t even...
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RefugeesHuman face of the border debate
MELISSA MACK The Independent Weekly 06 Aug, 2010 11:49 AM Hassim Rahmani took his first hopeful step onto Australian soil in 2001. He left his village in Afghanistan desperate to escape a country where he...
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NewsGovernment Conspiracy to Reduce Hazara Votes
As the Afghan parliamentary elections are getting close, there are concerns of Government-led fraud-preparations for polls’ rigging. Many people have yet not the registration card for voting. The Afghan Election Commission has established registration centers...
By Omid Jafari