Tolo News: Family members and a number of activists called for justice on Saturday during a protest rally over the kidnapping and murder of Abaseen, a teenager from Kabul. Abaseen’s family members said that they themselves will take action, if the government fails to do so. The protesters were chanting slogans of ‘the government should put an
TALUQAN, Afghanistan, April 19 (Xinhua) — About 62 Afghan girl students were hospitalized Tuesday due to a possible gas poisoning in the country’s northern province of Takhar, police said. “Up to 62 students of the Sar-e-Rustaq Girl High School in Rustaq District were shifted to district hospital after they showed symptoms of vomiting, and several
VOA News Mehdi Jedinia, Noor Zahid April 18, 2016 The rape and murder of an Afghan refugee girl in Iran has fueled outrage in Afghanistan and drawn diplomatic protest from Kabul. The six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and then murdered by her Iranian kidnapper last week in Varamin, a poor suburb of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The United Nations warned Monday that growing attacks as well as the misuse of medical and education facilities by all parties to the Afghan conflict have reduced the availability of health care, and limited children’s access to these essential services in the past three years. A new report
Kids in coal mines and children labor in Afghanistan – video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. They are kids whose faces are blackened by coal dust. Child labor is illegal in Afghanistan, but in the Nahrin district of northern Baghlan Province, children are performing dangerous and backbreaking work as coal miners. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan, Mustafa
Khaama Press: Afghan police have arrested two men appearing in a documentary film about the sexual abuse of children in Afghanistan, local officials in Balkh said. The two men appeared in a documentary prepared by a Russian TV Channel about Bacha Bazi, sexual abuse of children. Provincial police chief Syed Kamal Sadat said the two men, Jabar and
Counter Punch: The revelation that the number of opium-addicted Afghan adults and children has reached new highs is a dramatic consequence of the war in that country. It painfully illustrates how the aggression led by the United States can doom generations of children to a miserable life. A U.S. funded study released in April of 2015,
Tolo News: Sesame Workshop on Thursday unveiled its first Afghan Muppet, Zari, who will make her debut in season five of Baghch-e-Simsim, the local co-production of Sesame Street. Zari, will be featured in new, locally produced segments that focus on curriculum topics like girls’ empowerment, national identity, physical health and social and emotional wellbeing. Baghch-e-Simsim (Sesame Garden) has
Khaama Press: Fourteen civilians including children and teenage boys were released from a prison run by the Taliban. Quoting the released prisoners, NDS said the Taliban insurgents were sexually abusing the detained teenage boy and children. Click here to read more (external link).
Antiwar.com: Pentagon officials promised an investigation into an incident today in which a US soldier in a watchtower opened fire on an Afghan boy, shooting and killing him outside the Bagram airfield in Parwan Province. Click here for more (external link).