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Health assessment reveals multiple challenges for Washtenaw County's immigrant community
WEMU - Michigan
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August 18, 2025
RESOURCES: Washtenaw County Health Department Ruth Kraut Washtenaw County Immigrant Health Assessment: August 2025 Washtenaw Health Project TRANSCRIPTION: Caroline MacGregor: You're listening to 89.1 WEMU. I'm Caroline MacGregor. And today, we're...
Activists Press Berlin to Transfer 2,000 Afghan Refugees Stranded in Pakistan
Khaama Press
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August 18, 2025
Activists are urging Berlin to urgently transfer 2,000 Afghan refugees stranded in Pakistan, warning that arrests and deportations risk sending them back into dangerous conditions in Afghanistan. Human rights defenders, civil society groups, and...
Afghan women say studying in Scotland has given back dreams taken by Taliban
STV News
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August 18, 2025
A group of female Afghan medical students have said studying in Scotland has given them back a dream that was taken away by the Taliban. Monday marked a year since nineteen women left Afghanistan with the help of the Linda Norgrove Foundation....
CARE’s Closure Signals a Deeper Crisis in Afghan Resettlement Policy
The Diplomat
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August 18, 2025
At the end of July, the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts (CARE) – not to be confused with the humanitarian agency of the same name – officially shut down. The State Department’s CARE office was established after...
The culture’s all been countered — so how can teens rebel?
The Times
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Given that 58 per cent of teachers are said to vote Labour, and only 5 per cent Tory, I imagine Sir Keir Starmer has high hopes of the 16-year-olds allowed to vote for the first time in 2029, so long as they have been attentive in class. But is it...
Our shameful past has a vital message about immigration
The Observer
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‘East of Aldgate one walks into a foreign town”, foreigners “swamping whole areas once populated by English people”. The “substitution of a foreign for an English population” has created “increasing bitterness of feeling”. No, not Robert Jenrick...
Immigration to the UK: legal and illegal
Madhyamam
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August 18, 2025
Immigration is a contentious political issue in the UK. Like most countries the United Kingdom has always had immigration and always shall. There has always been some opposition to immigration. There was no non-white immigration on any serious...
Afghanistan – Four years after the Taliban’s return to power (15.08.25)
France Diplomacy
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August 18, 2025
Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, France reaffirms its solidarity with Afghan people and its determination to activate all the levers it has available to improve the fate of the Afghan population. The decisions taken...
Afghan leaders, women activists to hold dialogue in Islamabad next week: think tank
Dawn
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August 18, 2025
An Islamabad research institute is set to host Afghan leaders and women activists this week to discuss the regional peace and stability, organisers said on Monday. Pakistan and Afghanistan have witnessed an improvement in bilateral relations after...
UN warns of ‘normalization’ of women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan; IEA rejects claims
Ariana News
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August 17, 2025
A major regional dialogue involving Afghan leaders and women activists will be held in Islamabad on August 25-26, with organisers stressing that the gathering is not against the Islamic Emirate, but is intended to foster peace and stability in...
Afghan envoy in Islamabad marks four years since IEA’s return to power
Ariana News
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August 17, 2025
Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Sardar Ahmad Shakeeb, marked the fourth anniversary of the Islamic Emirate’s (IEA) return to power on Friday with a keynote address at an Independence Day ceremony in Islamabad, calling the day “a symbol of...
I have a second family and home in Scotland, says Afghan medical student
Northern Scot
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August 18, 2025
A woman who fled Afghanistan to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a doctor has said Scotland is now her second home. Muzhda Iqbal said she had “lost all hope” after the Taliban banned women from university education. In August 2024, she...
1.2 million undocumented Afghan nationals left Iran in past year, declares interior minister
Tehran Times
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August 18, 2025
TEHRAN – Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has announced that more than 1.2 million Afghan nationals—mostly undocumented migrants—have left Iran over the past year, with the highest number of departures recorded at the eastern borders of Khorasan...
Virginia Sues Trump's VA over Education Benefits
Military.com
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August 18, 2025
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Thursday sued President Donald Trump's Department of Veterans Affairs, asking a federal appeals court to force the VA to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that guarantees veterans full education...
4 Years After Kabul's Fall, Afghan Families in Connecticut Call for Protection and Support
Military.com
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August 18, 2025
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Four years after fleeing Kabul, Afghanistan, New Haven resident Hashima Moradi and her family resettled in Bridgeport, beginning the long process of rebuilding their lives. "I still remember the airport. Children were crying,...
Germany urges Pakistan to allow back over 200 expelled Afghans
Business Recorder
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August 18, 2025
BERLIN: Berlin said Monday that more than 200 Afghans waiting to be offered sanctuary in Germany had been deported by Pakistan to their Taliban-run home country in recent days. The German government was urging Islamabad to allow them back, said...
Iran to Deport Two Million Undocumented Afghan Migrants
Khaama Press
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August 18, 2025
Iran plans to deport around two million undocumented Afghan migrants, saying the process will follow legal procedures with dignity, amid growing regional pressure on refugees. Iran’s Interior Minister, Eskandar Momeni, announced that a new program...
Afghan Community in Vermont Recognizes 4-Year Anniversary of U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Bennington Banner - Vermont
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BURLINGTON — Friday, August 15, marked the four-year anniversary of the collapse of the Afghan government and the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Taliban entered Kabul and took over the Afghan government on August 15, 2021. According to a...
Some 800,000 more Afghan refugees to be expelled by March 2026
Tehran Times
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August 18, 2025
TEHRAN – Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has said some 800,000 more undocumented Afghan refugees will be sent back to their home country by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2026). According to the latest report, more than...
Afghan humanitarian and activist Razia Jan dies at 81
NBC 5 DFW - Texas
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August 17, 2025
Razia Jan, an Afghan activist who advocated for girls' right to learn, died last month. She was 81. Jan died on July 20 at her home in Los Angeles, according to The New York Times. Her cause of death was congestive heart failure. Jan watched the...