Afghanistan Girl
Afghanistan: Seeds of Hope
Yaqoot, from Kabul, found herself confined to the house as a young girl after the Taliban took control of the capital, and her family found few economic prospects under the new regime. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: Americans Are Committed to Helping Afghanistan Rebuild
One such project helps Afghan women earn money for their families by sewing school uniforms for Afghan girls. This project began when the Afghan minister for women's affairs, Sima Simar, asked the United States for help to send women back to work and girls back to school. ... I'm delighted to say hello to the men and women, boys and girls of Afghanistan on behalf of the people of America. We want you to know: America ba shooma ahst (America is with you). ... [Read More]
Women in War and Reconstruction: The U.S. Commitment to Women in Afghanistan and Iraq
And it’s not just women who are helping. There are other real heroes like Dr. Peter Grossman, Director of the Grossman Burn Center at Sherman Oaks Hospital right in this area, volunteered to treat a severely injured young Afghan girl named Zubaidah. Not only that - he even put her up in his home for over a year, until she successfully recovered and rejoined her family in Afghanistan. Dr. Grossman is now volunteering as a member of our U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council’s Health Advisory Committee. The list goes on, and we are always open to new partners. If you are interested, please just click on International Women’s Issues at www.state.gov and you will find your way. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Excerpt: World Food Program Increases Aid Deliveries to Afghanistan
From Yuki Mori (a girl): ... From Konatsu Okutomi (a girl): "The people of Afghanistan: Through TV, I realized that Afghan people have to flee, even though most of them are innocent. I don't know the situation well, but I really worry about you. With regards. Kanatsu". ... [Read More]
3. Situation of Women and Children in Afghanistan
Under Taliban rule, the women of Afghanistan were denied the opportunity to engage in the political, economic, or social life of their country. They were deprived of their rights to private property and free speech. And they were barred from access to equal justice or education, and routinely obstructed from obtaining even basic health care. Girls could not go to school; there was a brutally enforced restrictive dress code; and women were forbidden from venturing outside their homes without a male relative. As First Lady Laura Bush put it on March 8, 2002, on the occasion of International Women’s Day, "Afghanistan under the Taliban gave the world a sobering example of a country where women were denied their rights and their place in society." ... [Read More]
Rebuilding Afghanistan
"We liberated [Afghanistan] from the clutches of a barbaric regime. It's hard for any American to understand this, but many young girls never went to school because of these people. And now, thanks to America and our friends and allies, they're going to school. We're liberators, not conquerors, here in America. Every life matters, whether it be an American life or the life of an Afghan girl." President Bush, Little Rock, Arkansas, August 29, 2002 ... Highlights of U.S. Assistance in Afghanistan This week, the United States announced $2.5 million for the construction of 14 women's centers; an additional $1 million for training women on business and NGO management, political participation, and girls' education; $1 million for the Afghan Conservation Corps, giving employment opportunities to returning refugees and demobilized fighters; and $1 million for the Afghan Human Rights Commission. The women's resource centers are part of $100 million specifically assisting women. The U.S. is assisting the Afghan government in creating a national army. In 2002, American soldiers helped train 1,600 Afghan soldiers. The U.S. has committed $80 million to reconstruction of the main commercial road between Kabul, Kandahar, and Herat. Construction is underway. Since April 2002, 4.3 million Afghan children have been immunized against measles. America's Fund for Afghan Children has raised more t ... [Read More]
V. Country Narratives -- Countries A through G
The Peoples’ Republic of China is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. A significant number of Chinese women and children are trafficked internally for forced marriage and forced labor. Chinese women are at times lured abroad with false promises of legitimate employment and then trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to destinations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America, while Chinese men have been trafficked for forced labor to Europe, South America, and the Middle East. A large number of Chinese men and women are smuggled abroad at enormous personal financial cost and, upon arrival in the destination country, are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation or other forms of exploitative labor to repay their debts. They often face exploitative conditions that meet t ... [Read More]
Afghanistan Reconstruction - “School Book Printing”
USAID plane being unloaded of school suppliesBinding. [Read More]
Afghanistan Reconstruction - “1st Day Of School”
Children in damaged school building, Kabul ... [Read More]
Afghanistan
There was no legislation prohibiting trafficking in persons. However, in November, President Karzai approved the establishment of the Commission for the Prevention of Child Trafficking and pledged to establish a National Action Plan to combat trafficking. A 2002 U.N. report on Women and Human Rights reported increasing anecdotal evidence of trafficking in Afghan girls to Pakistan, Iran, and the Gulf States. Some girls reportedly were kept in brothels used by Afghans. The whereabouts of many girls, some as young as 10, reportedly kidnapped and trafficked by the Taliban remained unknown. ... [Read More]
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