• It's been two years since Manus Island re-opened. Not a single refugee has been resettled
  20 July 2015, by Storm Tiv

  Two years ago, Reza Mollagholipour, a civil engineer from Iran, was on a boat crammed full of asylum seekers and migrants bound for Australia from Indonesia. Mollagholipour fled Iran after receiving threats for uncovering corruption at his company. It was the second boat to arrive on Christmas Island after the Rudd government in July 2013 reinstated a policy of mandatory offshore processing for “unauthorised maritime arrivals” to Australia.
  The Australian authorities sent Mollagholipour on (...)

• Dispatches: Afghan Civilians Pay the Price of Attacks
  14 July 2015, by Jim Murphy

  Yesterday’s deadly suicide attack at a police checkpoint outside a military base in Khost, in eastern Afghanistan, is a grim reminder that Afghan civilians bear much of the cost of the country’s armed conflict. The checkpoint adjoined an outdoor market, and many of the at least 27 civilians – including 12 children – killed in the attack were in vehicles waiting to pass the checkpoint on their way home. Six members of the Afghan National Security Forces were also killed. No one as yet has (...)

• Memento Mori
  13 July 2015

  LONDON 13 July 2015 (IRIN) - It is easy to laugh at aid workers, but every year, hundreds are killed, kidnapped or injured doing their jobs. We need to do more to honour them.

• Fewer aid worker attacks. That’s good, right?
  13 July 2015

  BEIRUT 13 July 2015 (IRIN) - Attacks on aid workers declined last year but were still the second highest on record, new data shows. Are aid organisations getting smarter or more risk averse?

• Hazara Predicament
  12 July 2015, by admin

  By Roohullah Gulzari, a human rights activist
  A couple of years ago, I showed works of art by my friend Ramzan Ali Hazara, a graduate of the National College of Arts, to another friend from university. He looked at them and was quite amazed at the brilliant skills displayed by Ramzan in his paintings.
  “But why does his entire collection show loss and violence? I am sure he would do great if he painted other stuff too,” my friend remarked.
  My reply was simply: “How can he?”
  Oddly, blame is (...)

• Joeys-selection-caps-roar-teens-amazing-journey
  10 July 2015, by admin

  By Brisbane Roar
  Hazara Roar player Rahmat Akbari has been named in the Joeys squad aiming to qualify for the 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup.
  Brisbane Roar’s Hazara teenager Rahmat Akbari is living the Australian football dream.
  The 15-year-old from Edens Landing has been named in a national squad to begin preparing for qualification for the 2017 FIFA Under-17 World Cup in India.
  He will travel with Tony Vidmar’s Joeys to Cambodia later this month to play games as a warm up to the first (...)

• 2015-7-afghanistan-womensrights-farkhunda
  7 July 2015, by Paul Aufiero

  Language English
  An activist from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) holds a cutout of a picture of Farkhunda, a young woman who was killed by a mob, during a protest against a court’s recent decision over her case in Kabul July 6, 2015.
  Alt Text Farkhunda-protests
  © 2015 Reuters Region / Country Asia Afghanistan

• Dispatches: 11th Hour for #JusticeForFarkhunda
  7 July 2015, by Stephen Northfield

  Protesters have once again filled the streets of Kabul, outraged by an appeals court decision to dismiss death sentences against four men convicted of brutally murdering Farkhunda Malikzada.
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  An activist from the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan (SPA) holds a cutout of a picture of Farkhunda, a young woman who was killed by a mob, during a protest against a court’s recent decision over her case in Kabul July 6, 2015. © 2015 Reuters
  But the (...)

• 2012-3-afghanistan-asia-prisonwomen
  7 July 2015, by Jessie Lawrence

  Language English
  A woman prisoner looks out a window in Parwan prison north of Kabul, Afghanistan, in February 2011. The woman was convicted of moral crimes after a man from her neighborhood raped her. She later gave birth in prison.
  Alt Text A woman prisoner looks out a window in Parwan prison north of Kabul, Afghanistan, in February 2011. The woman was convicted of moral crimes after a man from her neighborhood raped her. She later gave birth in prison.
  © 2011 Farzana (...)

• Policeman, 2 Hazaras killed in Quetta firing
  6 July 2015, by admin

  By Syed Ali Shah
  Men mourn the death of a relative, who was killed with two others by unidentified gunmen on July 6. A policemen and two others were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on them near the passport office at Join Road in Quetta on Monday, according to the police. –Reuters.
  Three people — including a policeman — were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on them in Quetta’s Joint road area on Monday morning, police sources said.
  Two others — including a (...)

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