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Europe
Human Rights Situation of the Hazara under Taliban Rule, Escalation of Human Rights Violations, and Immediate Suspension of Deportations to Afghanistan

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Saturday, 15 August 2026 to the President and the competent bodies of the German Bundestag, to the Federal Foreign Office and the...
By Omid Jafari

3 weeks ago
Europe
The 2025 World Hazara Summit Held in Vienna, Austria

March 15-16, 2025 – Vienna, Austria Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ustad Abdul Ali Mazari, the Hazara diaspora community, hosted by the grassroots committee, convened a two-day Summit titled “Rethinking Collective...
By Omid Jafari

1 year ago
Afghanistan
UK Local Council Recognises Hazara Genocide

East Staffordshire Borough Council Passes Motion Recognising Hazara Genocide and Ongoing Persecution by the Taliban. In a historic decision, the East Staffordshire Borough Council has passed a motion officially recognising the 1891 Hazara genocide and...
By Omid Jafari

2 years ago
News
Hazara Diaspora Organizations’ Statement on the condition of Hazara Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

We, members of the Hazara civil society and diaspora organizations, are gravely concerned about the condition of Hazara refugees and asylum-seekers in the world especially Indonesia and Greece. According to publicly available figures, more than...
By Omid Jafari

5 years ago
Australia
What price freedom? A Hazara refugee reflects on the sacrifices needed to feel safe

By Edith Bevin Najibeh Jafari fled Afghanistan as a refugee, but it was in Tasmania that she was forced to abandon an important part of her religion and culture to protect herself from persecution. Who are...
By Hazara International

6 years ago
Genocide
Hazaras Gripped by Religious Extremism in Balochistan

Pakistan’s Hazara community had peace for roughly one year before terror broke out again. On Friday, 55 Hazara vegetable vendors said a routine goodbye to their loved ones, not realizing the danger that would come...
By Maisam Iltaf

7 years ago
Genocide
Pakistan Chief Justice’s Notice Produces Some Hope for Hazara Protections

by Maisam Iltaf and Bismellah Alizada April was a particularly grim month for the besieged ethnic Hazara community in the Pakistani city of Quetta. It began with the targeted killing of Nazar Hussein, a taxi driver in the city. At the end...
By Maisam Iltaf

8 years ago
Genocide
Hazara Massacre in Quetta

by Irfan Husain I RECENTLY received an email from a reader that made me ashamed for not having written earlier about the Hazara ethnic/sectarian cleansing taking place in Balochistan. The young Hazara woman writes: “… in...
By Hazara International

8 years ago
Art
Amin Wahidi Receives The 24th Venice City Award 2017

The ceremony of Venice City Award 2017 was held on September 6th in Mestre -Venice where the winner of the award is officially announced. BEHIND VENICE LUXURY- a Hazara in Italy pictures the struggles of...
By Hazara International

9 years ago
Art
The First Film Supported by HFF is Ready for World Premiere

BEHIND VENICE LUXURY- a Hazara in Italy is the first feature documentary supported by Hazara Film Fund. This documentary pictures the struggles of a Hazara refugee who has come to Italy ten years ago and...
By Hazara International

9 years ago

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Saturday, 15 August 2026 to the President and the competent bodies of the German Bundestag, to the Federal Foreign Office and the...

March 15-16, 2025 – Vienna, Austria Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the martyrdom of Ustad Abdul Ali Mazari, the Hazara diaspora community, hosted by the grassroots committee, convened a two-day Summit titled “Rethinking Collective...

East Staffordshire Borough Council Passes Motion Recognising Hazara Genocide and Ongoing Persecution by the Taliban. In a historic decision, the East Staffordshire Borough Council has passed a motion officially recognising the 1891 Hazara genocide and...

We, members of the Hazara civil society and diaspora organizations, are gravely concerned about the condition of Hazara refugees and asylum-seekers in the world especially Indonesia and Greece. According to publicly available figures, more than...

By Edith Bevin Najibeh Jafari fled Afghanistan as a refugee, but it was in Tasmania that she was forced to abandon an important part of her religion and culture to protect herself from persecution. Who are...

Pakistan’s Hazara community had peace for roughly one year before terror broke out again. On Friday, 55 Hazara vegetable vendors said a routine goodbye to their loved ones, not realizing the danger that would come...

by Maisam Iltaf and Bismellah Alizada April was a particularly grim month for the besieged ethnic Hazara community in the Pakistani city of Quetta. It began with the targeted killing of Nazar Hussein, a taxi driver in the city. At the end...

by Irfan Husain I RECENTLY received an email from a reader that made me ashamed for not having written earlier about the Hazara ethnic/sectarian cleansing taking place in Balochistan. The young Hazara woman writes: “… in...

The ceremony of Venice City Award 2017 was held on September 6th in Mestre -Venice where the winner of the award is officially announced. BEHIND VENICE LUXURY- a Hazara in Italy pictures the struggles of...

BEHIND VENICE LUXURY- a Hazara in Italy is the first feature documentary supported by Hazara Film Fund. This documentary pictures the struggles of a Hazara refugee who has come to Italy ten years ago and...