DAMIEN McCARTNEY PROTESTORS have taken to the pavement outside Darwin Magistrates Court to campaign to get children out of detention centres. June Mills leads the protest outside the Darwin Magistrates Court. Picture: KATRINA BRIDGEFORD The...
Photo from Haji Oruzgani8 March 2011 – Hundreds of women carrying banners with “We Want Justice” written in Dari today urged provincial officials to make life better for women in Dai Kundi, where the United...
By: Vikki Riley This morning in Darwin’s Magistrate Court six teenage Afghan asylum seekers detained at Airport Lodge Detention Centre were on trial for possession of a weapon during a fracas that turned ugly with...
By Jane Bardon An Afghan asylum seeker in Darwin’s immigration detention centre says he will killed by the Taliban if he is sent back to Afghanistan by immigration authorities. Ahmad says he is a 27-year-old...
By Iris Almeida-Cèté, CNW Telbec MONTREAL – “You educate a girl (in Afghanistan), and you educate a whole society.” Dr. Sima Samar, Chairperson, Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. March 8 is a day to remind...
Conference Report: Political study of the oppressed ethnicities of Afghanistan The Afghans organised a sober and overwhelmingly large conference, captioned “Political Study of the Oppressed Ethnicities of Afghanistan”, in the Memorial of the 16th Martyrdom...
When I met with the provincial education official in Bamiyan he used the words “Blood and Smoke” to describe what the Hazara people of Bamiyan province have had to endure during their history. He said...
Mr Yosefi came to the UK aged 16 from IranAn asylum seeker who won a last-minute reprieve when he was due to be deported to Afghanistan in November has been detained again. Reza Yosefi, 20,...
Mohammad RazaiMohammad Razai is a student at the University of Cambridge. Here, he explains why his family left Afghanistan and what it meant to him to settle in the UK: When I was six years...