Children are abused and insulted both in society and within homes. Overall everybody knows that the amounts spent for children in Afghanistan are very small compared to the total funds which are flowing into this country for military or civilian purposes.
The other problem is the sexual issue. It seems sexual abuse of young boys in Afghanistan by older Afghan men is being increasingly reported.
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KANDAHAR,
6 June 2007 (IRIN) - Abdul Kabir, not his real name, left his home in Afghanistan’s southern Urozgan province to work for a relative and attend school in neighbouring Kandahar province.
Six months later, the 12-year-old found himself in a juvenile prison after being sexually abused.
There, Abdul Kabir said another young man, also working in the poppy field, tried to rape him. “But I stabbed him in the stomach,” Abdul Kabir said - a move that prompted locals to turn him over to the police.
According to Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), there are currently 14 child sex abuse cases in Kandahar province alone, five of which have been referred to the police for investigation.
However, specialists say this is just the tip of the iceberg, with the vast majority of cases going unreported.
A health worker in Kandahar’s main hospital told IRIN that three to five sexually abused children receive medical treatment every month. Child abuse is the physical or psychological/emotional mistreatment of children
"Although victims can receive treatment for their physical injuries, the psychological scars will be with them for a long period of time,” Dr Ghulam Mohammad Sahar said.
Finally, children’s rights were being neglected despite vast flows of Western aid into the country.
