Tolo News: The US State Department in its annual report which was published on Monday, included Afghanistan on the list of countries engaged in a “policy or pattern” of human trafficking and forced labor or whose security forces or government-backed armed groups recruit or use child soldiers. According to the report, the current government of
8am: Reliable sources told Hasht-e Subh Tuesday that in the past week, many children under age have been kidnapped from different parts of Ghazni city and then raped. Since the Taliban group has seized power, abduction, abuse, torture, and killings have been the daily routine that the people have been encountering. Usually, the cases are
Tolo News: Nuristan’s department of education said that 70 percent of schools in this province do not have buildings, and they must temporarily use tents at these schools to solve this problem. According to the officials of the department, there are 214 schools in the province, of which only 60 have buildings. According to official
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 27, 2022 The earthquake that hit southeastern Afghanistan last week has killed at least 155 children, the United Nations’ humanitarian coordination organization, the OCHA, said in an update on June 26. The OCHA said that another 250 children were injured in the magnitude 6 quake that struck the mountainous villages in the
Ariana: More than one million Afghan children are expected to be vaccinated over the next few days in the latest polio vaccination campaign that was launched in western Afghanistan on Sunday. Officials said the campaign will run for four days and be conducted across four provinces in the western region. Click here to read more
Bella Caledonia: American soldiers committed horrendous atrocities in these areas, ranging from systematic rape and sexual assault to massacres of civilians. Australian soldiers also committed similar atrocities, such as tying up children and slitting their throats. British soldiers also committed atrocities in these areas, most of which are simply not known, because the findings of
Ariana: Doctors at the Abu Ali Sina-e-Balkhi Regional Hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif have voiced deep concern over the increase in malnutrition among children in the north of the country, saying the prevalence of this condition has increased by 50 percent in the region. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Poverty in the country has forced many children in the capital to work instead of going to school. They say they are concerned about not getting an education. Bilal, a fourteen-year-old breadwinner for his family of eight, says he sells water from morning to night on a cart and is upset that he
Ariana: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) public health ministry said 820,000 people, including mothers and children, have sought treatment for malnutrition so far this year. According to a video message by Javid Hajir, a spokesman for the ministry, 570,000 of them were children under the age of five. Hajir added that during this period,
8am: According to a credible source, a group of Taliban fighters in the Zamankour area of Panjshir province has set up a checkpoint and checking the military background experiences of passengers passing the route. Click here to read more (external link). Related Taliban fighters have raided schools in northern Kabul and interrogated students in grades