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RefugeesAsylum seekers in Australia sew lips together
ADELAIDE, Australia The Christmas Island Dentention Centre. Ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention center have sewn their lips together to protest the lengthy refugee application process. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen called the incident “distressing”...
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Human RightsWorld-renowned human and women’s rights activist to speak in Vancouver
By TIFFANY CRAWFORD, Vancouver Sun November 19, 2010 Dr. Sima Samar is a human rights activist who has risked her life to help women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Photograph by: ED KAISER, Postmedia News ____________________________________________________________________...
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NewsSima Samar calls attention to Afghan women in crossfire
By Travis Lupick, November 18, 2010 Nine years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the women of Afghanistan continue to fight for basic human rights. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission,...
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News10 years after destruction, Bamiyan remembers its Buddhas
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers November 17, 2010 BAMIYAN, Afghanistan — They stand like missing hearts carved out of the mountain’s chest, abandoned chambers where ancient wonders of the world once gazed placidly....
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ArtThe Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan Trailer
Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, THE BOY MIR will cover not one year but ten. It will track the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to...
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NewsCopper load of this! Company digging mine in Afghanistan unearths 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery
By Daily Mail Reporter, 15th November 2010 Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1329650/Company-digging-Afghanistan-unearths-2-600-year-old-Buddhist-monastery.html#ixzz15OgNonLa A Chinese company digging an unexploited copper mine in Afghanistan has unearthed ancient statues of Buddha in a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. Archaeologists are rushing...
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NewsINTERVIEW: Top Afghan rights expert: No compromise on women’s rights
By Shabtai Gold Berlin – Afghanistan’s top human rights expert has said openly that her country is not where she wants it to be nine years after the Taliban was overthrown, and promises the long...
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NewsAFGHAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AND ORTHODOX INTELLEECTUAL VIEWS
Liaquat Ali Hazara, Nov 14, 2010 The collapse of the Taliban in 2001 persuaded the Afghan nationals to rejoice and celebrate as they wished to take the reign of the government in their hands. The...
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RefugeesTeenage brawl erupts at Melbourne immigration detention centre
AAP November 15, 2010 AN investigation will be held into a brawl involving about 50 unaccompanied Afghan asylum-seeker boys at a Melbourne immigration detention centre. Department of Immigration spokesman Sandi Logan said the boys were...
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NewsAfghan mujahedeen prepare to fight as Karzai attempts peace with Taliban they helped overthow
By Kathy Gannon (CP) Afghanistan's ethnic minorities into taking their weapons out of mothballs and preparing for a fight.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File) PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s moves to make peace with the...
By Omid Jafari