We are raising funds for legal fees and an expert Country Report in a pending case to extricate an Afghani Hazara family at risk who have been displaced into Pakistan due to the current situation in Afghanistan. More details below.

The aim is to raise £5000 in legal fees as soon as possible for initial consultation (£500), assistance with the preparation of the necessary applications for the family (£3,000), and work on instructing and obtaining an independent expert Country and Honour Based report to support the applications (£1,500).

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Current situation: The elderly Afgani Hazara parents and their vulnerable daughters (who have previously been targeted for forced marriage by a known local commander when in Afghanistan) are currently in Quetta, Pakistan but in very bad living conditions. They have registered themselves with UNHCR but have not received any support or accommodation, nor help with onward journeys to join their British daughter and her family. Even in Pakistan they are not safe because Quetta is the origin of the Taliban’s Quetta council.

Out of respect and ongoing risk for the family, we have kept this account anonymous.

The family had no choice but to leave and abandon everything they had built behind in Mazar-e-Sharif, because of the following reasons:
1. Ethnically, they belong to the Hazara minority in Afghanistan who are systematically killed, targeted and were previously subjected to genocide. They are afraid that what the Taliban did to the community in 1998 could happen again. Fears of 1998 massacre by the Taliban plague Afghans belonging to minority Hazara communities.

2. The Taliban are forcing women to marry their insurgents and obey sex slavery. Two of the girls in this family have already been targeted, and the parents threatened.

3. The sisters, especially the youngest, have been very active as young civil, women rights and environmental female activists and Peace Advocator at UNAMA-MZR. Female activists, particularly those who worked with foreign organization’s projects are vulnerable and are targeted by the Taliban. They have particularly and closely worked with projects which were funded, backed and supported directly by GIZ and Consulate General of Germany in Mazar-e-Sharif.

4. Pakistan is not safe for the family because of the Taliban’s alignment with local governance and state support. Hazara minorities are persecuted in Pakistan as well from information in the public domain.

Finally, the father and wali/guardian of the family is 85 years old and has asthma. He cannot protect the family anymore. He himself requires someone to take care of him. None of them speak the local language in Pakistan.

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