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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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October 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pink News: Young boys are being sexually abused in Afghanistan in line with a tradition where they are bought by older men to dance at parties. The practice of "bacha baazi", meaning "boy-play", is enjoying a resurgence in the North of Afghanistan where ownership is seen as a status symbol by militia leaders according to Afghan news site, e-Ariana. Full news...
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October 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Fifteen-year-old Razia (not her real name) has been imprisoned in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, for escaping from her husband's house and eloping with another man. Full news...
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October 14, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3. Full news...
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October 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the hanging of a teenager boy by Taliban insurgents in Sangin District of volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IPS-Inter Press Service: Against the backdrop of an escalating military conflict, Afghanistan is facing a rash of new problems, including increased poverty, widespread corruption, a breakdown in the rule of law and a paralysed judiciary, according to a new report released here. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ReliefWeb: In Afghanistan, "the justice system must be rebuilt in a way that bridges modern and traditional justice institutions, protects citizens' rights and strengthens rule of law, a pivotal step in Afghanistan's march to successful political transition and development." This is a key recommendation of the Afghanistan National Human Development Report 2007, unveiled here today. Full news...
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September 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Fatima (not her real name) lives with her mother and a younger brother in Pul-e Charkhi prison, in the eastern outskirts of Kabul. The 12-year-old was first brought to the prison four years ago, after a court sentenced her mother to 11 years for murdering her husband. "There are six women and seven children living with us in a single cell," complained Fatima, who added that she finds it annoying living with "those naughty kids". Full news...
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September 24, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: A 12-year-old Afghan boy starring in the upcoming film "The Kite Runner" fears he and his family could be ostracized or even attacked because of a rape scene that he says he reluctantly acted in -- a sequence the family wants cut. Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada plays the role of young Hassan who is raped by a bully in a pivotal part of the best-selling novel, on which the movie is based. His family says the scene will offend Afghans. Full news...
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September 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: Unidentified miscreants burnt a middle school in Balkh district of the northern Balkh province Saturday night, police said. Balkh police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Sunday the tented school, where 1,200 boys and girls were studying, was set on fire in the midnight. Full news...
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August 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Thirty one-year-old Benazir - not her real name - was 12 when she was wedded to a 24-year-old man in Shinwaar District of Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan. Benazir has been sold four times by men whom she considers her husbands - in a formally proscribed tradition known as women selling. She told IRIN of her extraordinary experiences. Full news...
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August 23, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The family of a 7-year-old Afghan girl raped by two men has come forward to demand justice, defying social customs that view such attacks as a stain on the victim's honor. Two months after the rape, the girl is still in pain, rarely speaks and looks no one in the eye. Full news...
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July 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Flooding, armed conflict and population displacements are factors likely to increase malaria cases in Afghanistan this year, public health officials warn. "In 14 high-risk provinces the number of malaria patients will surpass that of 2006," Abdulwase Ashaa, director of the national anti-malaria department, told IRIN on 19 July in Kabul. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children Tuesday, killing 13 elementary school students and at least four other people. The U.N. and NATO quickly condemned the attack for harming so many civilians. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: With their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road. Full news...
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July 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Three out of 10 Afghans suffer from chronic food insecurity, which badly affects the health and well-being of the estimated 27-million nation, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full news...
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July 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai Sunday ordered a probe into civilian casualties from a foreign military airstrike three days ago, which elders said had killed at least 45 villagers. The elders said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians, mostly women and children, from the airstrike Friday, which was aimed at Taliban fighters in Girishk town in Helmand province, district chief Dur Alisha said. Full news...
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June 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: LOGAR - On 12 June two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a crowd of female students coming out of high school in the central province of Logar. Three schoolgirls were killed and five wounded. Bilqees' 13-year-old daughter, Shukria, was one of the three killed. The bereaved mother gave IRIN an account of the day her daughter was killed. Full news...
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June 18, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Media for Freedom: Poverty, lack of educational opportunities and the demand for cheap labour are helping to fuel the prevalence of child labour across Afghanistan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today. Full news...
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