Writing Hawa by Afghan filmmaker Najiba Noori and co-directed by Rasul Noori is set to world premiere in the international competition at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ...

Australian Hazara Advocacy Network’s Shabnam Safa says the women of Afghanistan have been “abandoned”. The repression of Afghan women is in the spotlight as Taliban rule continues.

The Australian Greens support the calls from the Hazara community and international human rights groups to recognise and condemn escalations in violence, the ongoing persecution and acts of genocide ...

With few exceptions, women were not permitted to work. Entire families were driven into destitution as a result. Another group specifically targeted by the Taliban was the Hazaras, a Shi‘a ...

Women in Afghanistan fear for their rights as the ... is of mixed Pashtun-Tajik ethnicity but is widely considered the latter. The Hazara, believed to have origins in Central Asian and Turkic ...

A Hazara woman, who was a nurse ... The refugees from Mazar-i Sharif are scattered throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rape victims are unlikely to seek medical attention unless their injuries ...

When the Taliban came to power last summer, Wahida Amiri couldn't sit quietly. She, alongside other women, gathered and staged protests in Kabul and other cities — a move that would lead to her ...

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The Taliban's 2021 takeover in Afghanistan was a disaster for women's rights, causing an almost complete reversal of the hard-won human rights progress over previous decades. Our latest reports show ...

She told SBS Dari that taking part in such a competition would’ve been unimaginable in Iran, and her Hazara homeland, Afghanistan ... “In countries where women are kept at home, [they ...

An Afghanistan Women’s XI played a Cricket Without Borders XI at Melbourne’s Junction Oval in an exhibition match supported by the Australian government in January, bringing together 21 female ...