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Bricks or Bats: In Afghanistan, children build kilns or chase dreams—But not both
In a nation where childhood is stolen by labour, even a game of cricket becomes an act of defiance.
Why Are Children Still Working in Brick Kilns?
Inside Afghanistan’s Brick Kilns: How Poverty, Debt, and a Broken System Are Forcing Children to Work
Stolen Childhoods, Silenced Futures
A Special Report on the Rise of Child Labour in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Afghan Deportations Are a Moral and Humanitarian Disaster
The trucks rumble across the border, packed with men, women, and children—their lives reduced to whatever they can carry. Some clutch paperwork from the UN refugee agency. Others have nothing…
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Stolen Childhoods, Silenced Futures
A Special Report on the Rise of Child Labour in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Pakistan’s Afghan Deportations Are a Moral and Humanitarian Disaster
The trucks rumble across the border, packed with men, women, and children—their…
Stolen Childhoods, Silenced Futures
This report from The Afghan Times investigates the worsening child labour crisis…
Why Are Children Still Working in Brick Kilns?
Every year on World Day Against Child Labour, we are reminded of…
Bricks or Bats: In Afghanistan, children build kilns or chase dreams—But not both
At the edge of a blistered brick kiln, 11-year-old Ahmad lifts a…
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Education
The Taliban deferred inquiries on girls’ education “until further notice.”
The Taliban's Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, announced…
