HUMAN RIGHTS FEATURES A joint initiative of SAHRDC and HRDC -6/6 Safdarjung Enclave Extension, New Delhi -110 029, India. HRF/4/99 Embargoed for 26 July 1999 Approximately 60,000 Afghan refugees are estimated to be living in New Delhi, but since the beginning of 1999, the Indian Government’s Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) has refused to renew… Continue reading No Place to Turn: Afghan Refugees in New Delhi
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Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany
Author: Manik Mehta Publication: The Observer Source Hindu refugees from Afghanistan, who first fled the Soviet invasion of that country in 1980 and later the turmoils of the ensuing civil war, face a bleak future in Germany. Germany has an Afghan population of 60,000 consisting largely of Muslim refugees. Some 6,000 are Hindu and have… Continue reading Bleak future faces Afghan Hindus in Germany
Afghan Refugees Seek Indian citizenship
From D.N. Chaturvedi Tribune News Service Tuesday, July 21, 1998 FARIDABAD, July 20 — Thousands of Afghans, mostly Hindus and Sikhs who had taken refuge in India after fundamentalists came to power in Kabul in 1992, have been seeking Indian citizenship since then, but of no avail. More than 1,500 of them have settled in… Continue reading Afghan Refugees Seek Indian citizenship
5TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN SHIBIR
Report by Pratish Sthankiya The fifth annual European Shibir was held in Rurberg Germany from the 28th to the 31st March 1997. A parallel Hindu Sevika Samiti Shibir was also held. The camp site was a youth hostel situated on a hill overlooking the lake in Simmerath (near Bonn, western Germany). 193 swayamsevaks and sevikas… Continue reading 5TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN SHIBIR
Hindus Abandon Afghanistan
April 1994 By Lavina Melwani, New York Kandahar in Afghanistan is a small town-a sleepy, four-bazaar town-but within its heart it holds a burden of griefs: ten-year-old Mukesh had been sent by his mother to the nearest bazaar to fetch yogurt for lunch. He never returned home alive. Caught in a sudden volley of cross-fire… Continue reading Hindus Abandon Afghanistan
Strife-torn Afghanistan enters a new and uncertain phase with the signing of Geneva accord
Source: India Today By Shekhar Gupta JALALABAD: BLACK BAISAKHI For Afghanistan’s 50,000-odd Hindus and Sikhs, Baisakhi is Diwali, Holi and the Gurupurab all rolled into one. But on the big day last fortnight, the mood in Kabul’s Karte Prawan Gurdwara was grim. The gloom had its origins 250 km away in Jalalabad, a historic city… Continue reading Strife-torn Afghanistan enters a new and uncertain phase with the signing of Geneva accord