Women

STORIES OF WOMEN IN THE TALIBAN’S AFGHANISTAN

by Rahel Saya In the current situation in Afghanistan, women and girls live in an invisible prison, where all their basic rights and human freedoms have been taken away. They no longer have the status of ‘half of society’. Women…

It’s inhumane’: Hazara react after 63 killed in targeted ISIS attack

Demonstrators from Afghanistan’s Hazara minority attend a rally for community’s rights, outside the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, in Belgium, October 5, 2016.

Nothing being done to halt Hazara genocide

Pakistan’s Hazara community, which mostly consists of Shiites and most of whom reside in the province of Balochistan, again suffered a huge blow when on Friday they were targeted again by terrorists. A bomb exploded in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, in…

Ghori girl on her way to US Congress: Who is Zainab Mohsini?

Ghori girl on her way to US Congress In the midst of my daily scrolling of social media while looking for the latest Afghan developments, I came across a tweet from a friend who wrote that Zainab Mohsini, a first-generation…

From the day I entered school, because I was one of few Hazara, I faced consistent discrimination.

Fatima, 67 When armed extremists entered her Hazara community, Fatima had to leave with only two of her children. Separated from the rest of her family, they went from house to house, living in other people’s homes out of one…

Hazaras are talented. This pain helped us to grow…we are not what they think.

Nasrin, 30 Nasrin’s family fled to Iran in the 1980s following persecution in Afghanistan. As a refugee, Nasrin faced regular harassment. “Hazara people are distinguished based on their appearance, so we get targeted a lot,” Nasrin explains. She notes that…

I hope to give more opportunities to those who don’t have the opportunity to be Canadian. To make this beautiful home their home too.

I hope to give more opportunities to those who don’t have the opportunity to be Canadian. To make this beautiful home their home too