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ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
It prohibited the recruitment and use of children by armed forces, criminalized the bacha bazi (the practice of maintaining a male or intersex child for sexual entertainment), and it included a definition of torture that was in line with the Convention against Torture. However, it was regrettable that the chapter onÃÂ ...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
March 12, 2018
It responds to reform needs by codifying the crime of 'bacha bazi' (sexual slavery and child prostitution), land usurpation, the submission of incorrect asset declarations by public officials, and criminalizes forced virginity testing, a practice prevalent within law enforcement agencies. Reforming the sanctionsÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
February 21, 2018
It responds to reform needs by codifying the crime of bacha bazi, land usurpation, the submission of incorrect asset declarations by public officials, and criminalizes forced virginity testing, a practice prevalent within law enforcement agencies. Reforming the sanctions regime, the code introduces alternativesÃÂ ...
FRONTLINE
January 25, 2018
Under the Leahy Law, the Defense Department and the Department of State are prohibited from providing assistance to any unit of a foreign security force if there is evidence to suggest the unit has committed human rights violations, including the Afghan practice of “bacha bazi,” or “boy play.” While bachaÃÂ ...
NPR
January 24, 2018
Many of those abuses involve the routine enslavement and sexual abuse of underage boys by Afghan commanders. There's a term for this - bacha bazi, which roughly translates as boy play. Joining us now to talk about this extremely disturbing report is Rod Nordland of The New York Times. Welcome.
New York Times
January 23, 2018
The report released on Monday was heavily redacted, and at least in the public portions it did little to answer questions about how prevalent child sexual abuse was in the Afghan military and police, and how commonly the American military looked the other way at the widespread practice of bacha bazi,ÃÂ ...
Cabrini College Loquitur
October 19, 2017
“Bacha bazi” is the practice where boys are dressed as women and perform for an all-male audience. After performing, the boys are sexually abused by ... In the early 1990s, the Taliban rose into power and made the practice of “bacha bazi” unacceptable and a crime. Men who did not want to abandon theÃÂ ...
The Plaid Zebra (blog)
October 10, 2017
The boys who are trafficked into these sex rings are called 'bacha bazi,' which means 'boy play.' To the unassuming bystander, a dancing boy looks harmless as he performs for the elders around him. In reality, the idea is to arouse the men they dance for and eventually be sold to the highest bidder.
Hindustan Times
June 25, 2017
Adorned in makeup, fake breasts and bells, Jawed whirls around middle-aged men at Kabul's underground bacha bazi, or “boy play” parties, where the former child sex slave finds freedom of sorts as a dancing boy. Jawed was kidnapped by a former jihadi commander in Shomali, north of Kabul, when heÃÂ ...
The News Tribune
February 3, 2018
Keeping boys as sex slaves — a practice known as bacha bazi, or “boy play” — might be culturally acceptable among some powerful Afghan men. But for ... If not for a New York Times investigation in 2015, which found bacha bazi to be widespread, our government's blind eye might still be winking at theseÃÂ ...
GetReligion (blog)
January 30, 2018
The report released on Monday was heavily redacted, and at least in the public portions it did little to answer questions about how prevalent child sexual abuse was in the Afghan military and police, and how commonly the American military looked the other way at the widespread practice of bacha bazi,ÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
January 28, 2018
In a practice known as bacha bazi, or “boy play,” high-ranking Afghan elites use boys between the ages of 10 and 18 to entertain them as dancers, dressed in make-up and girls' clothing. They then hold the boys hostage, raping them and forcing them to engage in other sexual acts over extended periods ofÃÂ ...
Church Militant
January 25, 2018
This suggests there could be very many cases of bacha bazi (and other kinds of child abuse) that go unreported. The SIGAR's investigation was prompted by a September 2015 report in the New York Times. Their report claimed U.S. military forces were failing to do anything to punish Afghan leadersÃÂ ...
FRONTLINE
January 25, 2018
Under the Leahy Law, the Defense Department and the Department of State are prohibited from providing assistance to any unit of a foreign security force if there is evidence to suggest the unit has committed human rights violations, including the Afghan practice of “bacha bazi,” or “boy play.” While bachaÃÂ ...
Newser
January 24, 2018
A report commissioned by the Obama administration following stories of the "rampant" use of young boys as sex slaves by commanders—the practice is known as "bacha bazi"—among Afghan military and police forces was released Monday. The New York Times reports that despite finding more thanÃÂ ...
NPR
January 24, 2018
Many of those abuses involve the routine enslavement and sexual abuse of underage boys by Afghan commanders. There's a term for this - bacha bazi, which roughly translates as boy play. Joining us now to talk about this extremely disturbing report is Rod Nordland of The New York Times. Welcome.
ABC News
January 23, 2018
SIGAR interviewed 37 individuals and organizations for their report, twenty-four of which said they were aware of child sexual assault incidents or related exploitation by Afghan security forces to include bacha bazi — an Afghan term which translates to "boy play" and encompasses sexual relations betweenÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 23, 2018
The report released on Monday was heavily redacted, and at least in the public portions it did little to answer questions about how prevalent child sexual abuse was in the Afghan military and police, and how commonly the American military looked the other way at the widespread practice of bacha bazi,ÃÂ ...
Business Recorder
November 21, 2017
But last year's report in The New York Times on bacha bazi (child sexual abuse) in the country and the US military's attitude to it appears to hit a ...
MENAFN.COM
November 12, 2017
Amendments were brought to serious felonies, he said, adding some other crimes -- such as cyber crimes, Bacha Bazi, land grabbing, ...
The Guardian
November 2, 2017
Barat Ali Batoor's photographs focus on Afghanistan's problem with Bacha bazi, the sexual abuse of young boys. Photograph: Barat Ali Batoor.
Cabrini College Loquitur
October 19, 2017
I came across the term “bacha bazi” buried in research on gender and sexuality. The word “bacha bazi“ is translated to “boy play” in the ...
The Plaid Zebra (blog)
October 10, 2017
The boys who are trafficked into these sex rings are called 'bacha bazi,' which means 'boy play.' To the unassuming bystander, a dancing boy ...
NewsBytes
June 26, 2017
While sexual slavery and pedophilia are almost universally condemned, these practices continue legitimately in Afghanistan in the form of ...
Hindustan Times
June 25, 2017
Bacha bazi is not seen as homosexuality in Afghanistan's gender segregated society -- instead the possession of young boys decked out as ...
Digital Journal
February 22, 2017
Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi" -- the sexual exploitation of boys -- with a slew of stringent punishments laid out for ...
Digital Journal
December 18, 2016
He is among 13 families traced by our reporters who have suffered from "bacha bazi" —- the institutionalised sexual enslavement of children by ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
“DoD strongly condemns the exploitation of children, including bacha bazi, a practice in which men exploit boys for social and sexual ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
These “bad habits” can be small and personal, yet still destructive: the exchange of women to settle disputes in Pakistan, the bacha bazi ...
New York Times
August 19, 2017
“For example, they should stand against bacha bazi.” Bacha bazi is a widespread Afghan practice in which young boys are forced to crossÃÂ ...
TheaterMania.com
August 15, 2017
... to young Afghani men who have spent their lives as dancers in the world of bacha bazi, where wealthy men take in boys from poor families,ÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
August 14, 2017
... children's rights, imposing restrictions on Bacha Bazi, women harassment, demonstration laws, access to justice, freedom of speech, the rightÃÂ ...
TOLOnews
August 14, 2017
... children's rights, imposing restrictions on Bacha Bazi, women harassment, demonstration laws, access to justice, freedom of speech, the rightÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
August 2, 2017
Bacha bazi, which translates as “boy play,” refers to boys who work as dancers, performing at parties attended by men, and typically livingÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
August 1, 2017
SIGAR, created by Congress in 2008, and other groups have warned in the past about the resurrection of the practice of "bacha bazi" -- literally,ÃÂ ...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
July 31, 2017
“Children are used for bacha bazi [a practice in which young boys are made to dance at private parties, after which they are often sexuallyÃÂ ...
Broadway World
July 31, 2017
Paiman and Feda have spent their young lives as dancers in the world of bacha bazi, where wealthy men take in boys from poor families, trainÃÂ ...
The Star Online
July 17, 2017
Grim task: A file photo showing Afghan volunteers carrying the body of a resident killed in a car bomb attack to the Wazir Akbar Khan hospital inÃÂ ...
NewsBytes
June 26, 2017
Bacha Bazi is a practice prevalent in parts of Afghanistan under which young boys aged 10-18, are kept as sex slaves to elite members of theÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
June 25, 2017
Bacha bazi is not seen as homosexuality in Afghanistan's gender segregated society -- instead the possession of young boys decked out asÃÂ ...
DunyaNews Pakistan
December 31, 1999
... including in pro-government security forces, where the practice of "bacha bazi", or child sex slavery, is said to be institutionalised. Photo: BBC.
PBS NewsHour
March 21, 2017
So we do enjoy bearing witness against this globalist, cultural marxist, democrat socialist, site. When we aren't indulging in our other hobbies of taking our vengence on the Obama appointees who sold us out while they were indulging in Bacha Bazi parties.
Open Democracy
March 3, 2017
It is important to understand the difference between bacha-bazi and homosexuality. Bacha-bazi is equivalent to child sexual abuse whereas having a self-defined sexual identity is a human right set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 2, 2017
As well as male prostitution, there remains the time-honoured practice, deplored by human rights defenders and clerics, of "bacha bazi" or boy play. Boys kept by powerful older men are made to dance at special parties, and often sexually abused afterwards.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
February 28, 2017
The resolution points to the practices of female genital mutilation, honor killings and "bacha bazi," the enslavement of young boys to be used for entertainment and sexual abuse, and says that the beliefs that condone the practices are "antithetical to ...
Daily Times
February 27, 2017
The shame culture of Bacha Bazi (child sexual abuse) in Afghanistan continues to make the lives of young boys and children vulnerable.
NEWS.com.au
February 26, 2017
Afghanistan this week announced it is set to criminalise bacha bazi with a slew of stringent punishments laid out for the first time in a revised penal code.
LGBTQ Nation
February 26, 2017
"We are deeply concerned at the suggestion that the prevalence, especially in the Pashtun community, of the practice of bacha bazi [pederasty] implies an acceptance of certain homosexual conduct," warns the document, signed by the head of the unit.
The Indian Panorama
February 25, 2017
Afghanistan is set to criminalise the practice of "bacha bazi", sexual exploitation of boys, with a slew of stringent punishments laid out for the first time in a revised penal code.
The Slowly Boiled Frog (blog)
February 24, 2017
More recently, we have become aware of the continuing practice of bacha bazi among senior military officers in Afghanistan.
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