ISLAMABAD: The UN refugee agency has raised alarm over ‘forced Afghan child deportations’ from Pakistan and urged authorities ...
LAHORE, Pakistan 24 November, 2014 (UNHCR) — On a foggy morning on the edge of Lahore, a gathering of Afghan refugee women and girls were chatting and giggling. The opportunity to express themselves ...
Timely intervention from a UNICEF-supported social worker stopped Farima, 12, from being forced into child marriage in Afghanistan. But foreign aid funding cuts are undermining the services that ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, December 5 (UNHCR) - When her abusive, drug addict father told Zakia* that she must marry a man twice her age, the then 15-year-old was despondent. But after the Afghan refugee ...
KABUL - The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human-rights violations, ...