Refugees

Migrants: Greece’s other crisis

By George Mesthos — Special to GlobalPost Published: December 13, 2010 ATHENS, Greece — Afghan Muhammid Yonous knows something about living in a war zone. “I’ve drawn a red line around this area on a...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

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Support for Afghanian Asylum Seekers in Greece

Petition: Join us in supporting the cause of Afghanian Refugees in Greece by signing this petition and spreading the information. We demand that the Greek government and UN high commissioner accede to the demands of...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

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Voices from detention: Hazara youth speak out

Written by Scott Foyster on 10-12-2010 Today is International Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. To mark today I thought that it would be fitting to publish some...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

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The beginning of the journey Afghanistan’s Hazara people, targeted by the Taliban, still have a strong reason to seek protection from countries like Australia

Michelle Dimasi A local boy helps unload ballot materials from an Mi-17 helicopter in the Jaghuri, Afghanistan, for the 18 September elections. Many of the Hazara people who have claimed asylum in Australia were born...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

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Real refugee, please stand up

Nov.30, 2010 Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison has proposed refugee trade-off to stop illegal boat people arriving in Australian territory under Coalition plan. Under Coalition policy, Afghan or any asylum seekers who arrive illegally by...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

Refugees

DARYL McLURE: Living with the Taliban

AFGHANISTAN: Life is lived on the edge, ancient hatreds, religious and ethnic, still spill over into bloodshed and a terrible brutality. THE other night I heard a young man in Geelong outline why he had...

By Hazara International 15 years ago

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Afghanistani Refugee crushed between two trucks in Patras, Greece

November 29, 2010 On Saturday afternoon, 27th of November, a 24 years old afghan refugee, father of three children, was crushed between two trucks during his effort to climb in one of them and leave...

By Omid Jafari 15 years ago

Refugees

I want to go to Australia by boat

Ghulam Sakhi says his life is in danger because he fought alongside our troops, writes Ash Sweeting in Kabul. A former ally of Australian troops in Afghanistan now plans to pay people smugglers to take...

By Hazara International 15 years ago