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April 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Half of Afghan children are still not going to school and the biggest group missing out on an education are girls, the United Nations said on Monday."We still have 1.2 million girls of school age who do not have access to school in this country," Catherine Mbengue, head of UNICEF in Afghanistan, told the news conference. Full news...
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April 15, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC: In northern Afghanistan it appears some parents are being driven by poverty and hunger to marry off their daughters at an early age. Jenny Cuffe investigates for Radio 4's Seven Days. Full news...
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April 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Over 2,200 children are working long hours in dozens of brick-making factories in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, to pay off their families' debts, a survey by the Child Action Protection Network (CAPN), an Afghan body, has found. Full news...
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March 30, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ATN: An 8-year old girl was raped in the Takhar province. General Ziauddin Mahmoodi, the commander of the police of Takhar said that the man involved has been arrested and is in the custody of the police now. Dr. Ashrafuddin Aini, head of the Civil Hospital of Takhar said that the 8-year old is admitted in this hospital and is under treatment. Full news...
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March 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A newly-constructed middle school building was blown up by unidentified miscreants in the southeastern Khost province late Wednesday night, officials said on Thursday. Full news...
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March 19, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Belfast Telegraph: US soldiers have killed six Afghan civilians during a military raid in the east of the country this morning, according to a local official. A woman and two children are said to be among the dead following the operation in the village of Hom, close to the Pakistani border. Full news...
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February 26, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA: The woman belonging to Gulran District of Herat province in Western Afghanistan had been burnt with hot water, a bullet had been found buried in her abdomen and her hair had been pulled out with his hands. She says he fired on her by a pistol but she survived. Full news...
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February 21, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: A young girl was gang-raped, yet again, in Northern Afghanistan by three men. Bashira, a fourteen year old student of the sixth grade who had come to the city on Feb.18, 2008 to get the aid which was being distributed, was gang raped by three men in Sarpul province. Full news...
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February 20, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajamas Media Inc.: I lived in Kabul nearly fifty years ago. It was enchanting and dangerous. I lived on a wide and gracious street lined with trees. We had electricity, phones, hot and cold running water, and marble bathrooms. There was a movie theatre and an American-style cafeteria restaurant. Bazaars flourished, mosques shimmered, a thousand (all male) tea-houses thrived. Barefoot boys scurried bearing tea for businessmen all day long. Full news...
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February 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Food shortage and cold weather compelled over 100 children to run away from Ghazni province orphanage, a report claimed on Sunday. Full news...
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January 28, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: After the blood-curdling incident in Kunduz province yet another baby was sold due to extreme poverty and hunger in northern Takhar province. Full news...
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January 27, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Poverty, cold weather, and hunger forced a woman to sell her four month baby in Kunduz. Mahboba, 26, whose lower limbs are paralyzed is living in a dark muddy room in Sar- dara area of Kunduz city. Full news...
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January 23, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Deccan Herald: Unicef’s winner of the best picture in 2007 is a chilling reminder of the condition of the region’s child brides. Poverty may have made women and young girls more vulnerable, but the methods of exploitation they suffer take on an altogether different proportion in a country wracked by 30 years of unending conflict. Full news...
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January 22, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: About 600 children under five die every day in Afghanistan due to pneumonia, poor nutrition, diarrhoea and other preventable diseases, according to the State of the World’s Children 2008 report released by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 22 January. Full news...
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January 16, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Heavy snow and extremely cold weather have killed at least 140, mostly children and elderly people, and injured many others in different parts of Afghanistan, over the past two weeks, according to the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authorities (ANDMA) and provincial authorities. Full news...
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January 14, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Soaring staple food prices have pushed 1.3 million previously food-secure people in rural Afghanistan into high risk food-insecurity, according to the latest assessment by the UN World Food Programme (WFP). Full news...
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January 12, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: Soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have repeatedly used Afghan children to detect land-mines in war-ravaged country, said a former German ISAF officer in Berlin on Thursday. Full news...
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January 10, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Authorities said Wednesday that at least 34 people had been killed in days of heavy snowfall across trouble-torn Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 3, 2008 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Farida’s son inherited her drug addiction in the womb, and drank her opium-laced breast milk. And when he cried and fussed, she calmed him with specks of opium diluted in tea. This is the hidden face of addiction in Afghanistan — parents spreading drug use in the confines of their homes. All four of Farida’s children got high from her husband’s secondhand heroin smoke and from the opium she fed them. Full news...
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December 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UNICEF: The American photographer Stephanie Sinclair is the winner of the international photo competition "UNICEF Photo of the Year". Her photo shows a wedding couple in Afghanistan who could not be more opposite. The groom, Mohammed, looks much older than his 40 years. The bride, Ghulam, is still a child; she just turned 11. "The UNICEF Photo of the Year 2007 raises awareness about a worldwide problem. Millions of girls are married while they are still under age. Full news...
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December 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SPIEGEL ONLINE: An 11-year-old child bride sits next to her 40-year-old fiance. For UNICEF, this was the Photo of the Year. Dutch writer Leon de Winter laments the perversity of this wedding picture and the frightening relativism of the West. Full news...
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December 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Children are being recruited and in some cases sexually abused by the Afghan police and/or various militias that support the police, as well as by private security companies and the Taliban, according to human rights and provincial officials. Full news...
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December 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CanWest News: Gullalai doesn't dream of a better life for her 16-year-old son Iqbar. His growth and education have been stunted by a childhood disease that's left him unable to walk to school with his 10-year-old brother Feroz. Full news...
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December 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Times: A suicide bomber packed a car with explosives and blew it up next to a minibus transporting Afghan soldiers early today, killing at least 16 people, including several children. Full news...
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December 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Around 60 children have died of pneumonia in the Kiran-wa-Manjan district of the northeastern Badakhshan, residents claimed on Monday. But the Public Health Ministry officials rejected their claim as exaggerated. Full news...
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November 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Razmi Khan, 12, was once the most outstanding student in his class, but is unable to go to school. He was badly wounded by a missile as he walked to a mosque in Nader Shah Kot District in the southeastern province of Khost on 17 November. He was taken to a local hospital where surgeons amputated his left leg to save his life. Full news...
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November 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: They are known as "bacha bereesh," boys without beards, teenage boys who dress up as girls and dance for male patrons at parties in northern Afghanistan. It's an age old practice that has led to some of the boy dancers being turned into sex slaves by wealthy and powerful patrons, often former warlords, who dress the boys up as girls, shower them with gifts and keep them as "mistresses." Full news...
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November 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: As many as two-thirds of the 77 people killed and 100 wounded in a suicide bombing Nov. 6 were hit by bullets from visiting lawmakers' panicked bodyguards, who fired into a crowd for as long as five minutes, a preliminary U.N. report says. Full news...
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November 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Two bomb blasts targeted a group of lawmakers in northern Afghanistan, on Tuesday, killing at least 64 people, including five members of parliament, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, officials said. Full news...
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October 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Children in Afghanistan are increasingly at risk as the country's security situation deteriorates and the central government's authority is weakened, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Thursday. Full news...
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