Dr. Hakim
Dr. Hakim, (Dr. Teck Young, Wee) is a medical doctor from Singapore who has done humanitarian and social enterprise work in Afghanistan for the past 9 years, including being a friend and mentor to the Afghan Peace Volunteers, an inter-ethnic group of young Afghans dedicated to building non-violent alternatives to war. He is the 2012 recipient of the International Pfeffer Peace Prize.
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Views Tuesday, March 01, 2016 How Many Global Crises Can a Fifteen-Year-Old Afghan Take On? On 31st Jan, I followed Zekerullah, an Afghan Peace Volunteer who coordinates the Borderfree Street Kids School in Kabul, to visit Zuhair and his family in their rented room. Zuhair attends the School on Fridays with 92 other working and street kids, a minuscule number in the context of 6 million... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 08, 2015 Kunduz MSF Hospital U.S. Bombing Survivor: "I Want my Story to be Heard." “I feel very angry, but I don’t want anything from the U.S. military,” said Khalid Ahmad, a 20 year old pharmacist who survived the U.S. bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz on the 3 rd of October, “God will hold them accountable.” The actions... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 19, 2015 A Question from Afghanistan, "Can We Abolish War?" Hadisa, a bright 18 year old Afghan girl, ranks as the top student in her 12 th grade class. “The question is,” she wondered, “are human beings capable of abolishing war?” Like Hadisa, I had my doubts about whether human nature could have the capacity to abolish war. For years, I had presumed that... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Not Again, Mr. Obama! On ‘A More Expansive Mission’ in Afghanistan! President Obama has authorized ‘a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned’. Imagine that, like the late U.S. war veteran Jacob George, you’re sent on this ‘more expansive mission’. Your military helicopter is landing on farmland amidst mud-house... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 21, 2014 My Father Was Killed by a Computer, Says 7-Year-Old Afghan Child Imal, a 7 year old Afghan student in the 2nd grade, came to visit us in Kabul. As Imal grew up, he kept asking his mother where his father was. His mother finally told Imal that his father had been killed by a drone when he was still a baby. If you could see Imal in this video , you would want to... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 12, 2014 We’re Human Fodder Caught in the Crossfire of Armed Groups and Armed Governments “Her father was killed in Helmand amidst fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan/U.S.-NATO forces,” said a relative about Gul Jumma, who looked down, shy and full of angst, sensing a future that’s not promising. Gul Jumma, together with the Afghan Peace Volunteers, expressed their opposition to... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 11, 2014 Amerikistan, Not Afghanistan... Warocracy, Not Democracy Afghanistan Analysts Network reported on July 9 that Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah had told gathered crowd "that he had received phone calls from both US President Barack Obama and State Secretary John Kerry and had been told that Kerry would make a stop-over in Kabul on Friday... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, May 27, 2014 From Jeju and Afghanistan, an Asia Peace Pivot “Don’t you touch me!” declared Mi Ryang. South Korean police were clamping down on a villager who was resisting the construction of a Korean/U.S. naval base at her village. Mi Ryang managed to turn the police away by taking off her blouse and, clad in her bra, walking toward them with her clear... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 04, 2013 'We Are Those Two Afghan Children Killed by War' Two young Afghan boys herding cattle in Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan were mistakenly killed by NATO forces last week. They were seven and eight years old. Read more |
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Views Monday, February 11, 2013 From Afghanistan: My Voice Is Not Political, It Is Human It’s hard for me, an ordinary citizen of Singapore, a medical doctor engaged in social enterprise work in Afghanistan and a human being wishing for a better world, to write this from Kabul. But people are dying. And children and women are feeling hopeless. Read more |