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Kabul Press is a media organization with a mission. As such, it will support and promote individuals, organizations, businesses, and institutions that align with its mission. Its primary goal is not just reporting current events, but providing a deeper focus on areas not usually covered such as: • Human rights violations • Women’s rights and their importance in social and political development • Social development processes and their important connection with national and international peace and security issues • Democracy and its various components as well as its unique importance in a vulnerable and underdeveloped country • Reflecting the real problems of Afghanistan and its progress in meeting its security, stability and development challenges • Internal and external conflicts that are the source of long-term instability and insecurity • Peace and conflict frameworks which can increase the potential for coexistence among different political and cultural groups • Exposing corruption and mismanagement by institutions and individuals charged with protecting the public and improving standards of living in Afghanistan Kabulpress.org was founded in 2004 by Kamran Mir Hazar in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kamran founded Kabul Press to write and publish freely. It brought him praise from liberated people, but attacks from fundamentalists and arrests by the government. He lives in Norway as a political refugee now. Kamran Mir Hazar has published several poetry books in English, including the anthology Poems for The Hazara (125 poets from 68 countries), The Cry of a Mare About to Become a Butterfly, and Stream of Deer. His new poetry book Hazaristan with Haiku Body and a Yellow Mandela will appear in Hazaragi, English, and Italian in 2015. Kamran’s poems have been translated into English, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese, Italian and Romanian. He has been invited to several international poetry festivals including the International Poetry Festival of Medellin and the Poetry International Poetry Festival Rotterdam. Mir Hazar is the author of the non-fiction book Censorship in Afghanistan. After the fall of the Taliban, Kamran founded Kabul Press to write and publish freely. It brought him praise from liberated people, but attacks from fundamentalists and arrests by the government. He lives in Norway as a political refugee now. Kamran Mir Hazar has published several poetry books in English, including the anthology Poems for The Hazara (125 poets from 68 countries), The Cry of a Mare About to Become a Butterfly, and Stream of Deer. His new poetry book Hazaristan with Haiku Body and a Yellow Mandela will appear in Hazaragi, English, and Italian in 2015. Kamran’s poems have been translated into English, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese, Italian and Romanian. He has been invited to several international poetry festivals including the International Poetry Festival of Medellin and the Poetry International Poetry Festival Rotterdam. Mir Hazar is the author of the non-fiction book Censorship in Afghanistan.