Reports indicated that government officials, including commanders of the Afghan Baghlan Security Prostitutes and provincial governors, engaged in the practice of bacha baazi.
Back to top. In some instances, policemen paid out-of-pocket for basic care for the victims. Other families send their children to obtain employment through labor brokers, but the children end up in forced labor.
During this time her parents were unable to contact her, she said. A year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband's family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials said yesterday.
Whoever wants to show off should have a boy". The MOI has an anti-trafficking in persons unit with approximately 20 officers, but they did not appear to be dedicated full-time to this unit and there was frequent turnover in their leadership.
Increasing numbers of men, women, and children in Afghanistan pay intermediaries to assist them in finding employment primarily in Iran, Pakistan, India, Europe, or North America; some of these intermediaries force Afghan citizens into labor or prostitution after their arrival.
