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Sold off: The Trafficked Children of Afghanistan

August 12, 2022

Poverty has run rampant in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. So much so that an ever-increasing number of Afghan parents are being forced into trafficking their own children.

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Be it to childless couples, as brides or even as fighters for radical Islamic groups.

Most of the affected children come from internally displaced families: forced to flee from the Taliban or because they could no longer make a living in their home regions. 

For the affected children, such a situation is unimaginably cruel - But parents also struggle with giving up their sons and daughters. Oftentimes the money doesn’t last, and they stay trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty.

A report by Fariba Sahraei and Marc Erath

 

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