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January 2, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: An official at Iran's Interior Ministry says the estimated 1.5 million Afghan refugees illegally living in the country could face arrest and detention for up to five years. Full news...
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October 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: After the Taliban toppled from power, Qahir packed up his family and all they could take with them and crossed the border back into his Afghan homeland. Qahir, 57, had spent 19 years in Pakistan, most of them in a sprawling refugee camp. But six years later, he says he is "hopeless and disappointed." Full news...
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October 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Epoch Times: Thirteen-year-old Mohammad Bahari swings the long-end of a grain broom in a quite street in uptown Tehran in the early hours of morning. His boyish face and small figure resemble a child of no more than 10, making it difficult to believe he's a contractor employee with the city. Full news...
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September 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UNHCR: A lack of jobs, safe drinking water, accessible health care, education and housing are the main obstacles to the return and reintegration of Afghan refugees, according to a recent report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). Full news...
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August 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News Center: A United Nations envoy warned today that the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan could rise significantly if the conflict there continues at the current rate, adding to the multitude of Afghans that have already fled their homes. Full news...
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June 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Dumped at this frontier outpost alongside hundreds of weary Afghan laborers, Khalil Jalil stepped out of Iran and back into Afghanistan only days after he said Iranian authorities beat him, threw him in the trunk of a car and locked him in a detention center. Full news...
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June 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The queues of refugees start to pour over the border from first thing in the morning - as they have been doing for the last month. Ninety thousand people have so far been forcibly returned to Afghanistan from Iran since 21 April, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Full news...
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May 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: "My father and mother had gone to an invitation; police of Iran came to our house and deported us through the way of Nimrooz." These are the sad words of Noorbashee, 9, that according to her claim she has been expelled from Iran along with her 3 years old sister, now they are living with difficult situation in a camp in the frontier region of Nimrooz Province that doesn't any thing except for burning desert and sand storms. Full news...
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May 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Forty-eight-year-old Zahraa lived in the eastern Iranian city of Zabul for more than 12 years with her husband and two sons. On 8 May she was deported to Afghanistan for illegally staying in the country. She gave IRIN an account of what she said was her forced journey to Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The family of Nezamuddin Mohammadi in the Iranian capital, Tehran, does not know that their only breadwinner has been deported to Afghanistan. "I was arrested at work and confined for two nights in a dark cell," Mohammadi told IRIN on Sunday in the Afghan border district of Islam Qala where deportees from Iran were taken. Full news...
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February 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Pakistan says its Afghan refugee camps are a hotbed of support for a resurgent Taliban and they should be closed, but it seems no one in the Pir Alizai camp wants to go home. Full news...
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January 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: “We returned from neighbouring Pakistan in June 2002, after hearing that living conditions had improved and the government was providing proper shelter and plots of land for returnees, but unfortunately nothing has happened yet. Full news...
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January 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IDMC: Fierce fighting between NATO troops and insurgents in southern Afghanistan has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing from their homes in a new wave of displacement. Although numbers are unverified, the government said that more than 20,000 families had been displaced due to the fighting in the provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan as of November 2006. Full news...
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May 9, 2006 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Promises of work and security made Ghulam Hazara return to this western Afghan city from Iran two years ago. Now a lack of both is driving him back. Full news...
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