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Refugees
Tell the next PM where we stand on refugees

As ethnic Hazaras in Afghanistan, Najeeba and her family faced constant abuse, threats and violence. That’s why they risked their lives to travel on a leaky boat to Australia, in search of a life free...
By Omid Jafari

15 years ago
Refugees
Australia appears before UN over human rights

By London correspondent Rachael Brown Source Australia has appeared before a United Nations panel in Geneva, accused of human rights violations against Aboriginal people and asylum seekers. The UN panel is investigating whether the Australian...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Pakistan and the rest of Asia Pacific
Archeologists’ efforts to discover 300 meter Statue of Bamyan recumbent/asleep Buddah

BAMYAN, August 10th, 2010: It has been nine and half years since the Taliban regime demolished two ancient, giant Buddha statues carved into a hillside in heart of Afghanistan, Bamiyan. The demolition took place over...
By Omid Jafari

15 years ago
Refugees
Rally against refugee deportations

9.30am Tuesday August 24 Outside Law courts bldg, Cnr Phillip St and King Sts, City Refugee Action Coalition Sydney The Australian government is preparing to deport hundreds of asylum seekers back to danger. The refugee...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Refugees
57 Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers arrive at Christmas Island

THE first asylum boat intercepted in 13 days has arrived at Christmas Island. The group of 57 Afghans and Iranians were brought ashore by Customs at Flying Fish Cove between 8am and 9am local time...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Refugees
Asylum policy may face legal challenge

Source The government’s moratorium on processing protection claims from Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers is clearly in breach of international law, the Greens say. Greens spokeswoman on immigration and human rights Sarah Hanson-Young called...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Refugees
Iranian border police wound 8 Afghans

Ramin – Aug 7, 2010, Ghulam Sakhi, who was shot three times in the leg, said after they were caught Iranian officials tied their hands and pulled them behind their vehicles for a long distance....
By Omid Jafari

15 years ago
Pakistan and the rest of Asia Pacific
Hazara Community Feel Effects Of Devastating Pakistan Floods

Copyright: Getty Images KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 7: Hazara families among families from other ethnic groups , hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on August 7,...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Refugees
Human face of the border debate

MELISSA MACK The Independent Weekly 06 Aug, 2010 11:49 AM Hassim Rahmani took his first hopeful step onto Australian soil in 2001. He left his village in Afghanistan desperate to escape a country where he...
By Hazara International

15 years ago
Refugees
Smuggler’s Paradise
By Hazara International

15 years ago

As ethnic Hazaras in Afghanistan, Najeeba and her family faced constant abuse, threats and violence. That’s why they risked their lives to travel on a leaky boat to Australia, in search of a life free...

By London correspondent Rachael Brown Source Australia has appeared before a United Nations panel in Geneva, accused of human rights violations against Aboriginal people and asylum seekers. The UN panel is investigating whether the Australian...

BAMYAN, August 10th, 2010: It has been nine and half years since the Taliban regime demolished two ancient, giant Buddha statues carved into a hillside in heart of Afghanistan, Bamiyan. The demolition took place over...

9.30am Tuesday August 24 Outside Law courts bldg, Cnr Phillip St and King Sts, City Refugee Action Coalition Sydney The Australian government is preparing to deport hundreds of asylum seekers back to danger. The refugee...

THE first asylum boat intercepted in 13 days has arrived at Christmas Island. The group of 57 Afghans and Iranians were brought ashore by Customs at Flying Fish Cove between 8am and 9am local time...

Source The government’s moratorium on processing protection claims from Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers is clearly in breach of international law, the Greens say. Greens spokeswoman on immigration and human rights Sarah Hanson-Young called...

Ramin – Aug 7, 2010, Ghulam Sakhi, who was shot three times in the leg, said after they were caught Iranian officials tied their hands and pulled them behind their vehicles for a long distance....

Copyright: Getty Images KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 7: Hazara families among families from other ethnic groups , hit by the floods which have devastated Pakistan, work to rid their homes of mud, on August 7,...

MELISSA MACK The Independent Weekly 06 Aug, 2010 11:49 AM Hassim Rahmani took his first hopeful step onto Australian soil in 2001. He left his village in Afghanistan desperate to escape a country where he...