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June 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its concerns about reports that the Afghan government recently exchanged 22 children born to militants fighting in Afghanistan for the freedom of 19 hostages being held by insurgents in Zabul and Ghazni provinces. The international advocacy group has demanded the government shed light on the matter. Full news...
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June 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: In the conflict-ridden Afghanistan, children are the most vulnerable sector of society bearing the brunt of war as many of them lost their fathers in the conflict and are forced to work on the streets to support their families. Nearly 3.5 million Afghan children, according to Dr. L.N. Balaji, deputy representative to Afghanistan of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are out of school... Full news...
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May 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Afghanistan is caught in a cycle. Few girls go to school. Fewer women become teachers. Social restrictions, insecurity and a severe shortage of female teachers continue to pose a challenge. The Ministry of Education (MoE) says 15 percent of female students drop out of school. The UN children’s agency UNICEF says 3 million Afghan children have never been inside a school; 60 percent are girls. At least 500 schools are closed across the country because of security threats. Full news...
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May 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: At least two children were killed and four other civilians wounded in Ghazni province, officials said Thursday. The provincial acting-governor’s spokesman Shafiq Nang confirmed the incident and said that the blast occurred on Wednesday in Deh Yak district when a civilian vehicle hit by a roadside mine. Full news...
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May 6, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An adult has been arrested for allegedly raping a five-year old boy in northern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. Police official Maj. Muhammad Yusuf told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Maimana, the provincial capital and that the alleged rapist had been arrested. Full news...
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April 29, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Gulalay is excited. She is getting ready to celebrate her sixth birthday. She has been to the local bazaar with her grandfather and bought herself a new frock, a colourful hairband and a pair of hand-knitted socks. Frolicking on her way home, Gulalay cannot see the improvised explosive device buried in the dirt. One unfortunate step is all it takes. Full news...
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April 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A 16-year-old boy who confessed to having been gang-raped by Taliban commanders and forced to carry out a suicide attack has been arrested in Kabul, National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement Sunday. Would-be suicide bomber, Bilal, said that Muzamil, Hijrat (known as Abozar), Tahir and Honzala were the four Taliban commanders who sexually abused him in Bati Kot district of eastern Nangarhar, NDS said. Full news...
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March 5, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Samangan is home to some of Afghanistan’s largest coal mines, yet many of those who work inside them are just children. TOLOnews report Karimi Amini visited mines in the Dare Soof district of Samangan province and investigated the child labor conditions in the mines there. Full news...
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December 13, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The father of a rape victim on Saturday threatened with setting himself and his children on fire if the rapists were not awarded harsh punishment. Nooruddin, who had gone to neighbouring Iran in search of a livelihood, returned home in the Rustaq district of Takhar province after receiving news of his daughter’s rape. Full news...
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December 2, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MailOnline: These heartbreaking pictures reveal a little-reported tragedy of the fighting in Afghanistan – the helpless babies left orphaned or motherless by the conflict. The battle against the Taliban has left a deadly legacy for Helmand’s children of war: babies without mothers and children so malnourished they are at risk of dying. MailOnline visited a hospital treating children and civilians who have been hit by improvised explosive devices or who have been prevented from getting basic healthcare by the insurgency. Full news...
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November 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Two young girls, one 12-years-old and one only three, were abducted and raped in Takhar province in just the past week, local officials have confirmed. The parents of the 12-year-old girl, who live in the Yangi Qala district, said their daughter was abducted by armed men late at night six days ago, then taken somewhere and raped. Full news...
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November 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Abdullah’s wails of pain are punctuated only by his rasping cough. His arms bound to his body, he is five months old but weighs just 3.2kg, lighter than some newborns. In the next bed, three-month old Shukoria looks withered and worn, her face wrinkled and pained. Both are suffering from malnutrition, which affects more than 40 percent of Afghan children, killing thousands every year and leaving millions with permanent disabilities. Full news...
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August 21, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press (Translated by RAWA): Two US forces fired and killed two children near their base inside the airport in Herat province. Noor Mohammad Zarifi, a member of the Provincial Council of Herat, said that these children were killed in the afternoon the day before when they wanted to gather garbage and iron scraps from that area. Full news...
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July 22, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: It was bad enough that the alleged rape took place in the sanctity of a mosque, and that the accused man was a mullah who invoked the familiar defense that it had been consensual sex. But the victim was only 10 years old. And there was more: The authorities said her family members openly planned to carry out an “honor killing” in the case — against the young girl. The mullah offered to marry his victim instead. Full news...
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July 3, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: At least 545 children were killed in 790 incidents in Afghanistan during the year 2013, according to a latest UN report. The 47-page-report reveals that the children casualties has grown by 30 percent last year in Afghanistan as compared to the year 2012. Full news...
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July 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: It may not be true in urban cities in other parts of the world but children in this capital city of Afghanistan are forced to work instead of being in school. Mohammad Din, 10, is one of those poor Afghan children who are forced to work the whole day in a brick factory in Kabul to earn bread for their families. Full news...
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June 5, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An eleven-year-old boy who lost his father in the ongoing unrest was forced to work in the bazaar in northern Kunduz province to feed his dependents. Masoom recalled: “I lost my father in a suicide attack sometime back. I run a handcart to earn livelihood for my family.” Full news...
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May 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: IMC report - It is no surprise that tens of thousands of children are exposed to drug use in their homes. But what is worrying is that the use of a glue used by shoemakers and petrol by children is rising alarmingly in Kabul. “Donors have no interest in supporting deaddiction.” Full news...
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March 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Ministry of Work and Social Affairs on Monday said that economic problems had forced more than one million children into child labour across Afghanistan. Deputy Minister Wasil Mohmand, who visited a training workshop on creating awareness about labour laws, said that currently 1200,000 children lived on their own in Kabul and other provinces. Full news...
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March 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Catholic Online: A new report on human rights in Afghanistan released by the U.S. State Department reveals that girls as young as six can be “married” away or betrothed and are the victims of frequent sexual abuse from older men, sometimes within their own families. Full news...
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February 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Teenagers are being recruited into the ranks of armed fighters against the government. The situation is particularly alarming in western Afghanistan – Herat, Farah, Ghor and Badghis provinces. General Abdul Samad, chief of the National Directorate of Security in Farah, has evidence of recruitment of 15 to 18-year-old boys in Bala Bolok, Bakwah and Gulistan districts. Full news...
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February 6, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Two weeks ago in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world hunger. Our emphasis was not exclusively on their own country’s worsening hunger problems. The Afghan Peace Volunteers, in whose home we were meeting, draw strength from looking beyond their own very real struggles. Full news...
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February 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FirstNews: Across the country over the past few weeks, children have been seen waiting for hours at donation points. Research by the United Nations global peace organisation suggests that 55% – more than half – of children in Afghanistan are failing to grow or develop properly. Experts say that this is because young people in the country are often not given enough food in the first two years of their lives. Full news...
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January 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned US troops for killing a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Helmand, in a fresh strain to troubled relations between Washington and Kabul. Helmand governor Naeem Baloch told Karzai during a meeting in Kabul about the shooting, which comes as the US and Afghanistan wrangle over a deal to allow some US troops to remain in the country after this year. Full news...
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January 4, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is a year and a half and weighs 10 pounds. Full news...
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January 4, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Begging on the street has spawned a vicious practice: beggar mafia are renting children in Kabul, and drugging them with opium to ply their trade. Afghan cities are seeing Pakistani beggars in the summer. The government outlawed street-begging in November 2008 and set up a commission - made up of different government bodies and the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) - to end street-begging in the capital but it has not helped. Full news...
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December 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Police on Monday arrested three men for allegedly gang-rapping a 15-year-old boy a day earlier in northeastern Kunduz province. Crime branch chief, Col. Waisuddin Talash, told Pajhwok Afghan News the detainees took the boy to a home at gun-point in Kunduz City and gang-raped him on Sunday. Full news...
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November 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 13-year-old son of an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier, who lost both his legs to a roadside bombing, says Taliban daily come to his shoemaking shop in the Batikot district of Nangarhar province and snatch his earning. Nizam said his father lost his legs during a patrol in eastern Kunar province, an incident that changed his life. His father would feed his family until he was not disabled. Full news...
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November 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Seven schoolchildren from the same family have been killed and an additional three wounded by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. “This afternoon as a result of the mine explosion in Khairkot, seven children from one family lost their lives,” said Mokhlis Afghan, provincial spokesman, to AFP. Full news...
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November 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man has bartered his five years old daughter to a boy in return for 1.5-acre of land in northern Jawzjan province, fuelling concerns among rights campaigners. Maghfirat Samimi, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) chief for Jawzjan, Faryab and Sar-i-Pul provinces, identified the minor girl as Asma -- a resident of Darzab district. Full news...
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