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Responsiveness to religious inequalities in contexts of displacement: evidence from providers of humanitarian assistance to Shi’a Hazara refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan

This CREID Working Paper, by Jennifer P. Eggert, Maryam Kanwer and Jaffer A. Mirza, discusses inequalities caused or exacerbated by religious diversity in displacement and how humanitarian action can be aware of and responsive to this. It is based on interviews with Shi’a Hazara refugees…

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Analysis
Refugee support in Pakistan lacks responsiveness to religious inequalities

It’s almost been a year since the Taliban swiftly regained power in Afghanistan, which led to a new exodus of refugees, many of whom sought…

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Analysis From Afghanistan to Pakistan, the never-ending ordeals of Shi’a Hazaras

Researchers Maryam Kanwer and Jaffer Mirza speak to Shia Hazara Afghan refugees who are living in fear and hiding in Pakistan. ‘There were so many…

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Event October 26, 2021
Photo: Courtesy of Omaid Sharifi and ArtLords, mural promoting diversity in Afghanistan. The text reads “O homeland! In the end, I will build you. I will build you”.
The Children of an “Infinity of Cultures*” A Human Rights Approach to Cultural Mixing / Les enfants d’une “infinité de cultures”: une approche fondée sur les droits humains au brassage culturel

Watch again: the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, and the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), in…

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Analysis Taliban poses existential as well as physical threat to Afghanistan’s Hazaras

In this analysis, Sofya Shahab shares how concern over how much longer the Hazara community as an ethnic and religious minority will survive in Afghanistan…

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Analysis Scared and hiding: Shi’a Hazaras of Afghanistan fear renewed Taliban persecution

With a long history of persecution and the Taliban’s particular brand of hatred and ruthless violence towards them in previous years, Shi’a Hazaras in Afghanistan…

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Analysis Who is afraid of the Taliban?

Who is afraid of the Taliban? Anyone who is on the wrong side of their religiously homogenising project should be, warns CREID Director, Mariz Tadros.…

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Analysis Sectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immune

By Mariz Tadros, 31 March 2020 Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic? A…

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