“Bacha bazi” are the dancing boys of Afghanistan — boys who are forced to dress as females to dance and entertain Pashtun men, who make them their sex slaves. Look, a drag queen named “Nicole ...

Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi" -– sexual slavery and abuse of boys –- for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice.

Kabul: Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi" – sexual slavery and abuse of boys – for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched ...

Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for “bacha bazi” – sexual slavery and abuse of boys – for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice.

KABUL (AFP) - 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 ...

Afghanistan is to lay out stringent penalties for “bacha bazi” — sexual slavery and abuse of boys — officials said, in a move against the deeply entrenched practice. Reports last year said the Taliban ...

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Activists are calling on the Afghan government to enact a new law against the sexual exploitation of children. The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) is calling on President Ashraf ...