The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MoLSA) says 1,151 Afghan children have been deported from Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey over the past six months. Samiullah Ibrahimi, a spokesman for MoLSA, told Pajhwok Afghan News that since the beginning of this solar year, most of the children have been reunited with their families. He noted More

The United Nations agencies on the occasion of World Day against Human Trafficking on Wednesday said one in every three victims of human trafficking was a child, but the overall number of such victims has decreased by 11 percent. July 30th is celebrated as the World Day against Human Trafficking. In a joint statement, the More

Shamsia, 35, one of the victims of forced marriages, is disabled on both legs going through painful life since her miseries started by forced marriage and further aggravated by divorce because she was unable to give birth to a child. Forced marriages is one of the basic problems that existed for years within Afghan society More

Instead of unlawful migration to Iran and different European countries, Afghan youth want employment opportunities at home. On a sizzling summer day, some youth were seen the Company area of Kabul, planning to go to western Nimroz province and then cross into Iran illegally. They gathered in Kabul from different provinces in a desperate attempt More

Nearly two dozen Afghan citizens have been rescued from human traffickers near Brazil border, an official said on Monday. The 23 Afghan migrants, trying to reach Ecuador, paid   human smugglers for transporting them across the country and to its northern border, Peru’s prosecutor said on Sunday. But they were cheated out of their money More

Afghanistan, China and Russia are declared among the worst countries in human trafficking in the US annual report surveying human trafficking around the globe, according to media report. In the recently published US Department of State’s annual report on human trafficking, Afghanistan finds itself among the 11 countries where government involvement in trafficking is prevalent. More

Some educated youth in western Badghis province say they are forced to go for illegal emigration due to unemployment. They want the interim government to create job opportunities for them. Unemployment is among the problems haunting youth over the last 20 years. With their consistent demands falling on deaf ears, they regret, many educated people More

Nine Afghans have gone on trial in France over allegations of attempting to smuggle migrants through the dangerous Channel Water from France into Britain, media reports said. According to a report of AFP, the Afghans went on trial while France and Britain have already signed an agreement to prevent human trafficking on the perilous rout More

Security officials in western Nimroz province on Sunday said they had arrested three persons on the charges of human trafficking in the province. Nimroz police spokesman BahramHaqmal said the men who had confessed on their crime were arrested by police in Zaranj city, the provincial capital, on Saturday. The traffickers smuggled people across the border More

She was 12 years old when her step-father raped her and was married to a man when she was 16 and her husband has been treating her not as a wife but as a slave after knowing about the rape. Shazia (not real name), is a resident of capital Kabul. She said that she was More