“Filmed over five years, Writing Hawa is the story of three generations of Hazara women from the same family in Afghanistan,” says a description of the doc. The Hazaras are an ethnic group in the ...

The Taliban’s brutal treatment of the Hazara community should put an end to premature discussions of normalization. In July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two ...

As they walked up to the thick metal pillars of the border wall dividing Tijuana and San Diego, the Hussaini siblings carried nothing from their lives in Afghanistan than a hazy fantasy of what ...

This report documents two massacres committed by Taliban forces in the central highlands of Afghanistan, in January 2001 and May 2000. In both cases the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said. Faiz ...

When the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in 2001, women were once again allowed to go to school after being banned since 1996. I, along with World Bank education expert Raja Bentaouet Kattan ...

Today, Afghan women face more than 100 restrictions -- controlling everything from their appearance and movement to their right to work and study. Those accused of violating the Taliban’s so-called ...