ReliefWeb: The Ministry of Public Health along with its partners UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) will tomorrow launch a polio vaccination campaign in all provinces of the Southern, Eastern and South-eastern regions as well as selected high-risk districts across the country, including Kabul city. The campaign aims to reach over 5.6 million children and
Tolo News: The Independent Human Rights Commission on Saturday said more than 150 children and teenagers are imprisoned in Bagram prison on charges of anti-national and foreign security crimes. Abdullah Abid, child rights protection officer of the commission, said the children and teenagers should be freed and should be sent to juvenile training centers. Click here
Press TV October 20, 2016 The United Nations has warned that escalated fighting across Afghanistan could displace many more people, lamenting that international support is not enough to handle the unfolding crisis. United Nations special rapporteur Chaloka Beyani said on Thursday that UN agencies had registered more than 323,000 Afghans as internally displaced people (IDPs)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 11, 2016 A new report using UN statistics estimates there are about 700 million girls around the world who were forced to get married before the age of 18. The Save the Children report — issued on October 11 to mark International Day Of The Girl Child — said a
RT: The curious case of ‘bacha posh’ takes RT to Afghanistan – a society so patriarchal that a family having several daughters and no sons is a social stigma that’s impossible to shake. This leads to some girls being forced to live as boys. Some for life. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) has warned that 40 percent of Afghanistan’s population — or 11.3 million people — are food insecure, while chronic malnutrition affects more than 40 percent of Afghan children under five years old. WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin issued the warning Friday
Reuters: It’s been decades since the Russians laid millions of landmines in Afghanistan, and the explosives are still taking lives. Now funding to clear the mines is shrinking, and a rising Taliban insurgency is complicating things. Reuters Correspondent Josh Smith says the victims of all this are mostly children. Click here to watch video (external
Ayaz Gul VOA News August 17, 2016 ISLAMABAD — A new report finds state security forces in Afghanistan are increasingly using schools in Taliban-held areas for combat missions, threatening children’s lives and education. Human Rights Watch in its report released Wednesday has demanded the government take immediate steps to stop putting schools at the center of
By Abdul Qadir Ghafoori and Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 29, 2016 He calls it matrimony. Her parents call it kidnapping. Whatever the case — and it’s a complicated case — an Afghan mullah finds himself behind bars following his purported marriage to a 6-year-old girl. Sayed Mohammad Karim, a 50-something religious figure in a
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 20, 2016 The family of a pregnant Afghan girl who was burned to death has demanded that the government bring the alleged perpetrators to justice. The family of 14-year-old Zahra says she was tortured and set alight by her husband’s family in the central province of Ghor. Relatives of