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Hazara Contemporary FiguresSima Samar: The Woman of Action
By Zafar Shayan Known as the ‘Woman of Action’, Sima Samar has been spending tireless efforts for promoting peace, education and human rights in Afghanistan since 1980s. Currently, she is serving as the Chairperson of...
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GenocideAIHRC: Attacks against Hazaras in Afghanistan
Note: this report is prepared at the official request of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to UN Human Rights Rapporteurs on the situation of the Hazaras in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission...
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Hazara Contemporary FiguresShakar Dokht Jafari Wins Innovation Award For New Cancer Treatment
Shakar Dokht Jafari is a medical physics graduate who was inspired to develop a cancer treatment solution having watched her father died from the disease has been awarded a 2016 Women in Innovation Award. surrey.ac.uk:...
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GenocideThe Persecution of the Hazara People is a Holocaust in Afghanistan
By Susan AKA Peacefull I have written the word holocaust in this heading as I just interviewed a jewish woman who is a survivor of the Holocaust. She explained to me the hatred of the...
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Hazara Contemporary FiguresHabiba Sarabi won the N-Peace Award 2016
Hazara International Network: The N-Peace is a multi-country network of peace advocates in Asia seeking to advance Women, Peace & Security (WPS) issues. The N-Peace Awards were first launched in 2011 to recognize and profile...
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Hazara Contemporary FiguresUSTAD ABDUL ALI MAZARI
Shahid Abdul Ali Mazari (1947 – March 1995) was a political leader of the Hezbe Wahdat during and following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mazari was an ethnic Hazara,and believed the solution to the internal divisions in Afghanistan was in...
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ArtA history of creation and destruction: To rebuild or not to rebuild Bamiyan’s Buddha statues?
by Melissa Kerr Chiovenda In Bamiyan, Afghanistan, locals’ discussions on Hazara history and recent oppressions faced by Hazaras would often incorporate the meanings that two Buddha statues, built in the 6th and 7th centuries and destroyed on...
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HazaristanThe Malalas of Quetta
By Munira Abbas Hazaras light candles for peace against sectarian attacks in Quetta on February 15, 2014. PHOTO: REUTERS QUETTA: Twenty-three-year-old Mehrin Kausar sits in front of the stove at her modest residence in Marriabad on...
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Hazara Contemporary FiguresFrom Afghanistan’s Rubble, A Teacher Builds A School Of Ideas
by Philip Reeves Aziz Royesh (center) in the streets near the Marefat School in Kabul.Zabihullah Tamanna for NPR Aziz Royesh is a man whose life has been defined by one over-arching ambition: He says he simply...
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HazaristanDisputes damage hopes of rebuilding Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas
By Frédéric Bobin Plans are afoot to restore giant Buddhist symbols destroyed by the Taliban, but experts cannot agree on best way forward. The Sasal Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, pictured before its destruction in 2001....
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