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Afghans are deported from a number of Countries

2007-12-09T03:12:00.000-08:00

The recent almost three decades of war and internal conflict has left the inhabitants of Afghanistan far behind the modern life and advancements in all fields benefiting the human kind. To pursue a better life and to escape the war and armed conflict more than two third of the population were compelled to leave the country. Many settled in the two neighboring countries Iran and Pakistan while others traveled to other parts of the world. It won’t be an exaggeration to state that today there are Afghans living in almost every part of the world from Europe to America and Austarlia, big and small cities.
These countries especially Iran and Pakistan claims that enough is enough now and that they have supported and hosted Afghans for quite a long time now. Iran had already started deporting/expelling Afghan refugees from its territory while Pakistan is also now following the same route. Afghans without any documents are being deported cruelly while numerous problems are being created for those who do own some kind of documents (refugee cards, visas etc).
It has been reported that a number of Afghan registered refugees and unregistered Afghans in Tajikistan, Iran and Pakistan were arrested, however, some of the lucky registered refugees were later released and the others were deported to Afghanistan.
Many of these arrests take place in a condition while the Afghans being deported are busy with their daily labour works, are in the city to get some food items for their families, are going to school or are travelling from their homes to their work places. The family members (wife, children, parents) are never being informed of the arrest. Among these deportations, there are many unaccompanied children who are under the age of 16 and unaccompanied teenage girls. One can better assume how a minor child could survive in the harsh living environment of Afghanistan on its own once being separated and deported from their parents and family members.
Despite the many international aid agencies working inside Afghanistan there is no agency to help these deported and expelled individuals who in many cases have lost all their earnings as a bribe to the authorities and soldiers. Many deportees are deported in a very serious health condition and in many cases have no access to food, shelter or health facilities.
Since recently Human rights monitoring is also taking place in different cities of Afghanistan to monitor the situation but no immediate action/step has been taken forward to stop or improve this situation.

Women rights violated in Iran?

2007-12-06T00:15:00.000-08:00

There are numerous reports on women rights violation and discrimination against women in Iran. Most of these reports are issued by some “Iranian” women’s rights activists and campaigners among whom Azar Majedi is a top campaigner and women rights activists. She is the founder and chairperson of the Organization for Women’s Liberation- Iran and Mansoor Hekmat foundation. There are many other names associated with Women’s rights campaigners such as Jelveh Javaheri, Maryam Husseinkhan etc.
However, one interesting point to be noted is that all these campaigns, articles and reports these women’s rights activists publish, are only based on Iranian women’s rights violation and almost always the Iranian government, the law and Iranian Islamists are being accused of misdeeds and discrimination against women, while keeping in mind the nature of these campaigns I suppose it would have a more global affect and will attract a more wider support from around the world, if these campaigns are focused on women’s rights violation in all around the world not only in Iran or some other particular country. There are plenty of such discriminating and violating acts against the women which are also somehow backed by the national law of the country carried out in other parts of the world that remains unreported. In Iran, the way these activists report, the culprits seems to be the law-makers, government and law enforcement authorities and it seems that the public are in very much favor of international human/women rights or if this is not the case then obviously it’s not clearly reported by these many Iranian women’s rights activists, while somewhat in contrary, in other neighboring countries to Iran such as Afghanistan and Pakistan the basic human/women/children rights are violated by the people itself and research on different levels show that many such violations even some serious ones are kept hidden and unreported by the victims themselves. In these cases terror, false beliefs, unfair traditional and cultural values, physical and mental torture and many other tools are used to suppress the “call for justice” by the victims. Governments are also somehow indirectly involved in supporting the public idea of discrimination and violence against women/children by complicating and creating way too much problems for those few who do find their way to knock the doors for justice.
Iranian governmental authorities are accused of torturing and arresting women’s rights campaigners and acitivsts. The website “Change for Equality” reported that Jelveh Javaheri, an active member of the One Million Signatures Campaign and a contributor to the Change for Equality campaign’s website (web-based women’s rights campaigns against Iranian Law in relation to women rights) was arrested on 1st December 2007. She was charged with creating public anxiety by publishing lies and spreading anti-state propaganda. Jelveh was also once arrested back in March 2007 during a so-called peaceful protest. She is still due in court in this relation. The Iranian Islamic regime has clamped down on any activities it regards as anti-state or anti Islamic. Many women rights activists, worker and student activists have been arrested and many remain imprisoned.
Azar Majedi reports that more than 50 women have been arrested in the past 8 months in Iran. She calls for international support to put the Islamic Republic of Iran under international pressure for violating the most basic human rights

Women rights violation, in Iran or any other part of the world, must be publicly condemned but it is an absolute need to educate the people on what really the basic human/women/children rights are and to educate the people to be able to differentiate between the real campaigners who aim to eliminate the human/women rights violation with those who do so to gain publicity, funds and political reputation.

The Blog thing

2007-11-15T00:38:00.000-08:00

Hello fellows....
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