Report in The Island, July 15, 2023Muslim Personal Law Reforms Action Group (MPLRAG) on Friday (14) alleged that Muslim MPs continued to thwart attempts made to amend the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) to protect the rights of women and children. MPLRAG said in a letter dated 8 June 2023, 18 Muslim MPs had submitted recommendations in response to the Draft Bill on MMDA Reforms to Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe. Issuing a press…
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Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai over the use of children in the 1996-2006 Maoist insurgency. A single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla asked Dahal and Bhattarai, the then supreme commander of the Maoist combatants and the chief of “people’s government,” respectively, to furnish in writing whether they recruited child soldiers. “The…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 29, 2023At least three children were killed and another injured in mine explosions, left over from past wars in Wardak province of Afghanistan, a provincial official said on Monday. The children were killed and injured in two incidents in the same province. The first happened when three children found a toy-like explosive device in Sayed Abad district on Sunday afternoon; the device exploded, killing two on…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, April 06, 2023 at 8:35 PMThe Afghan consul in Karachi, Abdul Jabar Takhari, said that more than 2,000 Afghan inmates, including children and women, were released from prisons in Pakistan over the past six months. Over 280 children were among the released Afghan inmates. Takhari said that more than 200 Afghans were freed from Pakistan’s prisons on Friday. “Around 2,200 people, including 221 women and 285 children, have returned…
by Arjun Poudel in Kathmandu Post, April 3, 2023Amid a rise in new cases of the coronavirus, concerns have grown about hundreds of thousands of children above five years old who have not yet been vaccinated against Covid. Officials at the Ministry of Health and Population estimated that there could be around one million children above five years old who have not received even a single dose of the vaccine. “Hundreds of thousands of children…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Mar 14, 2023The dire economic situation in Afghanistan has forced children as young as ten years old to go out for work instead of attending classes, who earn just over $1 for a full workday. Poverty has been a major problem that has forced children throughout Afghanistan to work in order to survive. These children do a variety of hard work from selling plastic bags on the streets, to…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 31, 2022Refugees from Afghanistan are facing unprecedented challenges in Pakistan, especially after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Their numbers have swelled in Pakistan in the last two years as Afghanistan is going through a difficult phase with acute food and medical shortages. With the increase of insecurity in different parts of Pakistan, Afghan men are regularly picked up for interrogations by the state security agencies. Even women…
Editorial in The News, Dec 28, 2022Sexual abuse of children and minors is becoming a rampant problem across Pakistan, but the way it has surged in Karachi should be alarming for the city police. Over 200 cases of minor sexual abuse have been reported in one year till the last week of 2022; this number does not include other cases which went unreported. According to reports, the most vulnerable age group is from five to…
Reuters in Dawn, Dec 2nd, 2022KABUL: The United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan said on Thursday they had asked the Taliban to hold a ‘credible investigation’ into reports of extrajudicial killings, including of children, in northern Daikundi province. The Taliban have said that a gunfight in Daikundi between security force members and suspected armed rebels had resulted in deaths but denied that children had been killed. The UN mission (UNAMA) said it was working to establish…
report in TOLOnews, Nov 15, 2022 at 4:35 PMLocal officials in the province of Uruzgan said that families in the province are using opium as medication to treat their children. Health officials in the province acknowledged that some families bring opium-addicted patients to healthcare centers. Children have reportedly died as a result of using opium as medicine, according to authorities. “If patients are brought here immediately, we can still assist them, but if it gets…