DISSERTATION BREAKING BARRIERS To highlight the living conditions of the Afghan community residing in the Capital city of India. INTRODUCTION India is considered as one of the primary hub centres, wherein thousands of refugees arrive every day in order to seek shelter. A refugee is an individual who resides outside his home country. It could be because of various reasons, particularly including the experiences of hardships and being wretched on the basis of ill-treatment. Especially, because of social stigmas such as race, religion, nationality or political and cultural beliefs. Delhi, being a prime cultural as well as a commercial centre is considered as one of the most attractive and safe ground for refugees to migrate. The character…
or more refugees from the same nationality remain in exile for five years or more than that in a given asylum country, according to the Office of the United Nations, High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This paper will analyze by comparing and contrasting the data’s protracted refugees which have been collected from the website evaluation, book number and the nine periodicals to reinforce the idea why Afghan refugees should be granted with a Pakistani citizenship based on the reliability of…
Introduction (200 words) Community health care is a broad and every expanding topic which underpins many social, political and economic decisions. For community nurses to provide optimal care to their clients an understanding of the health care principles is essential to how they will be provided within the nursing and community setting. This essay will discuss how knowledge and understanding effects health literacy and the underlying health principles that are relevant to a large Afghanistan…
permission of male relatives (“Life as an Afghan Woman”). “Life as an Afghan Woman” states about infant and child mortality that “Fewer children die before age five. Child mortality has been decreased by half! Though the rate is still high, improvements in access to clean water, electricity and sanitation, as well as better educated mothers, have helped to save the lives of thousands of Afghan women.” Education has now began to make an impact in the lives of the young women who are given access…
History of the Taliban The novel “The other Side of the Sky” is an incredible story of a young Afghan refugee named Farah Ahmedi, who faced a harrowing journey who had been forced to flee her home with her mother because of the dangers they faced with the Taliban. During the novel Farah’s childhood was described as quick while she experienced many traumatic events at a young age. Consequently, once she grew older her entire perspective of the world had shifted. She had become more aware of her…
globe, looking at human right’s violations and countries where the position of women is compromised in some way. However, a personal interest of mine (as a woman of Afghan heritage) is the position of women in Afghanistan, especially pertaining to the rule of the Taliban. In 1989, as a young teenager, I read Marie Claire’s ground breaking article entitled “My Escape from the Taliban”. This followed, in diary form, the story of a young woman who escaped from Kabul and found safety in Pakistan.…
When the Taliban controlled the Soviets of Kabul, Afghanistan was a different place. We felt freedom while the parades marched through the streets, but we quickly realized that we were all very hopeful and celebrated too soon. They did not want to support the Afghans, they wanted to terrorize and kill people. Innocent people. Three of which were my friend, his son and his daughter-in-law, and he kills me every day thinking that I'll never see them…
Doe Deere Inspires the Inner Child to get out and Play! Doe Deere sparkles by her own designs and continues to inspire countless women to dismiss some of their fashion rules so they can be as colorful and original as her since her makeup line, Lime Crime was launched in 2008. Deere’s entrepreneurial and artistic successes have been celebrated by Self-Magazine illuminating to all that her strong character comes from a remarkable instinct and thought provoking morals as her make up line is…
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.” - Holy Bible. The world has been in crisis for a while now. Citizens from countries involved in these terrible situations had no choice but to flew their countries, but in what conditions? They have gone through so much by the point they arrive to the camps that the fact they are sick, traumatized, and handicapped is overlooked. My delegation has hosted Afghan refugees for…
for. But no one ever guesses Afghan. “Afghan”? They ask with disbelief, “oh.. you don’t look afghan?” they say. Well, how would you know what an Afghan looks like? But what they are most confused about is why I don’t have an accent, and how come I’m not wearing a burka. Though they never say that out loud, no one ever dose. I often have to explain that I was born in Canada and I am fluent in English. Growing up Afghan-Canadian entails much more than one may think. Whether it's having to explain…