Refugees

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 14 years ago

Refugees

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 14 years ago

Refugees

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 14 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 14 years ago

Refugees

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 14 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 14 years ago

Refugees

EU border guards reduce stream of immigrants into Greece

Nov 24, 2010, Athens – European Union border teams deployed to patrol Greece’s north-eastern land border with Turkey have helped significantly reduce the flow of illegal immigrants streaming into Greece, reports said Wednesday. The team...

By Omid Jafari 14 years ago

Refugees

Human rights day speakout

Stop the war on refugees Troops out of Afghanistan Speakout 5.30pm Friday December 10 Sydney town hall Organised by Stop the War Coalition and Refugee Action Coalition Ten years of war have not brought democracy...

By Omid Jafari 14 years ago