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AFGHANISTAN: Child “Slavery” on the Rise

 

AFGHANISTANSHARANA, PAKTIKA PROVINCE, 12 February 2009 (IRIN Radio) -

Many Afghan children, girls and boys, are being forced into situations of virtual slavery in poor rural communities, according to child rights activists.  Girls are being “sold” into marriage by heavily indebted parents, and boys too are being given away in bondage practices covered up as family affairs that prohibit state intervention. IRIN's Ahmad Zia Entezar reports.


Photo: Masoud Popalzai/IRIN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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