Press TV | February 4, 2016 Human rights groups have denounced the use of child soldiers in Afghanistan, after the recent murder of a pre-teen boy by the Taliban militants in the southern part of the country. Wasil Ahmad rose to fame for fighting the Taliban alongside his uncle and other fighters to break a
The Local (NO): Jøran Kallmyr, the state secretary at the Justice Ministry, told Aftenposten that many of the Afghan children who seek asylum in Norway don’t need protection but rather lack a care person in Afghanistan or seek a better economic future. Click here to read more (external link).
RFE/RL (Published on Feb 1, 2016): Afghan football authorities are trying to arrange a meeting between a 5-year-old boy and Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi, after photos of the boy in a homemade Messi shirt went viral. He spoke to exclusively to RFE/RL during a visit to the Afghan national stadium in Kabul.
AOPNEWS | January 25, 2016 Poverty, lack of adequate facilities and medical care in Afghanistan’s remote areas, and the cold weather is making it easy for diseases like pneumonia to kill people, especially children in Afghanistan. Health officials in Faryab province told Afghanistan’s Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) today that 2000 children have so far been
Daily Mail (UK): Police and social workers stepped in to stop a nine-year-old girl from being sent to Afghanistan to marry an 18-year-old cousin, a judge heard. The girl’s mother had told social services staff that her father was planning the trip, Mr Justice MacDonald heard. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press: General Aminullah Amarkhil, Ghazni’s police chief told Khaama Press that two of those killed were Taliban commanders. Gen. Amarkhil identified them as Sarhadi and Nazar. He said security agencies are still conducting investigation into the incident but initial reports suggest that they were killed after trying to abuse a girl. Click here to read more
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 12, 2016 Nearly one in four children growing up in conflict zones are missing out on education, with Afghanistan among the four worst-affected countries, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said on January 12. An estimated 24 million children of school age are not in school in 22 countries affected
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 11, 2016 At least three Afghan children have been killed after a mortar bomb hit a school in eastern Afghanistan. The Afghan Education Ministry said in a statement on January 11 that the attack in Khost Province also wounded eight students at the secondary school. There was no claim of
Daily Mail (UK): Afghanistan’s poverty has been a driving force in the rise of bacha bazi in the last 15 years. It makes it easy for predators to prowl the streets targeting ‘pretty’ young boys, enticing them from their families with promises of work or education. Click here to read more (external link).
Khaama Press December 6, 2015 The American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian, Angelina will donate all the proceeds from her work on the film ‘The Breadwinner’ to the education of Afghan girls. Angelina has visited Afghanistan twice during the recent years and funds a girls school in north of Kabul through profits from her jewellery collection.