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It seems that children in Afghanistan are more sinned against than sinning. Recent study (by UNICEF) has juxtaposed strong colors of progress and suffering in the nation. It says that even though the nation is showing improvement in arenas of health,...
The children of Afghanistan are living a totally wrecked life. The violence prevailing in the country has ruined their future. Families has been separated and most of the children lost their parents in the wars. Many of them were compelled to leave the...
Elizabeth Warnock Ferena in her book, Children in the Muslim Middle East, has presented 41 short pieces, which talk about various problems that the children residing in the area between Morocco and Afghanistan have to face.
Various debatable issues,...
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Education for girls in Afghanistan appears nothing short of a dream. According to the reports from the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and NGOs, a high proportion of marriages in Afghanistan involve girls below the legal age, as many as 57 percent involve...
Education for girls in Afghanistan appears nothing more than an unrealistic dream. According to reports from the country’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs and NGOs, a high proportion of marriages in Afghanistan involve girls below the legal age: as much as...
Afghanistan has long been a neglected nation by the rich countries but nowadays, a wave of leishmaniasis is being instrumental in gaining grounds of attention.
Leishmaniasis is a disease that is caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly,...
Authorities in Afghanistan has decided to turn down child and forced marriages in the Province. Hence, ‘Nikah Nama’, a formal marriage contract has been proposed as an antidote to the prevalent custom. This has been welcomed by the women’s rights NGOs...
Even after 18 years and $5 billion spent, the anti-polio campaign has hacked the infection rate from some 350,000 cases a year to around 2,000, while the number of countries in which it is endemic has slumped to just four from 125.
Looking at the...
A young Afghan refugee dangles a cigarette from his mouth outside his temporary shelter in Kabul. Yes, its quite real, the little one would soon be lighting it and puffing the smoke.
Is the picture not enough to shake the international communities...
Strife torn Afghanistan, in the grip of a severe drought, has forced many families to sell young girls in order to buy bread and survive the harsh winter conditions.
Some girls, as young as 8 years, have been married to 22-year-old grooms. Worse!...
This space, dedicated to the issues related to the children of the world and the problems they are encountering, has been keeping tab of the pulse of our future harbingers, trying to do justice by giving voice to their cries. We highlighted major issues...
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Afghanistan, the land of incessant turmoil has one more thing to worry about now, parents spreading drug use in the confines of their homes. Infants are inheriting drug addiction in the womb, and drinking opium-laced breast milk. And when he cries, he is...
A teacher was viciously murdered in Afghanistan for teaching, for teaching girls to be more precise.
When Afghanistan got rid of the Taliban government in March 2002, the heyday of schoolchildren came into prominence. Girls along with boys were seen...
Child marriage is not a new trend and is prevalent in Afghanistan since long, not only this child marriages here are even warranted in some versions of Islamic texts and tradition.
Very high percentage of marriages in Afghanistan includes girls who...
There are around 30,000 street children in Moscow, majority of which are either drug addict or are infected from HIV positive. Similarly, in Nigeria there are around 6,000 children who are imprisoned for stealing food and loitering in the streets. In...
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