Afghanistan - war children

• Afghanistan - war children

Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world for children. At the United Nations recently released a report, according to which in the first half of 2013 the number of civilian casualties increased by 23%. By roadside bombs women and children are killed almost every day. Do not forget that more than a third of Afghans live in extreme poverty.

These children live in a country torn by war for decades.

An Afghan girl from a refugee family. Herat province, Afghanistan, May 27, 2008.

An Italian soldier of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO and the boy with a toy gun in the Herat prison, September 14, 2010.

Afghan children go to school close to the French military base, 24 September 2012.

The son of Afghan women prisoners standing in a corridor prisons in Herat, August 16, 2009.

Skateboarders. Kabul, August 8, 2008.

The boy with his donkey. Kabul, November 2, 2012.

The Afghan orphans in an orphanage in Kandahar, November 19, 2012. Over two decades of war in Afghanistan, there was about one million orphans and abandoned children around the country.

View of Kabul, November 11, 2012.

A boy from a family of fans of President Obama. Kabul, July 23, 2013.

In the village, 5 km from Kandahar, May 9, 2010.

In the catch-up with the goat. Left - the tent in which the family lives. Paktia province, in July 14, 2012.

After the explosion, another car bomb, Kabul, January 16, 2013.

In the martial arts club, Herat Province, April 6, 2011.

Afghan children in the southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 24, 2010.

People flee after an explosion in Kabul, May 24, 2013.

School class in Nangarhar Province, March 19, 2013.

An Afghan boy in the destruction of the old Soviet bus in Kabul, May 9, 2011.

The place where a suicide bomber killed more than 70 civilians during a religious ceremony in the center of Kabul on December 6, 2011. In general, the statistics for the years 2008-2012 shows that the largest number of civilians (from 2/3 to 4/5 of the total number of victims) die as a result of actions of the Taliban and other insurgent groups fighting against NATO forces and the Afghan government.

The boy is watching on a column of US soldiers, Kandahar province, September 8, 2012.

In the east of Afghanistan, September 7, 2006.

Boy Balloon Seller, Kabul, 18 October 2011.

A boy on a donkey and Canadian soldiers, September 11, 2010.

Reading the Quran during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Kabul, 15 July 2013.

The boy works in a brick factory near Kabul, July 15, 2010. The workers, most of whom work barefoot and without gloves, earn here from $ 3 to $ 8 per day.

In Kabul, November 7, 2012.

Girls on the outskirts of Jalalabad, March 17, 2013.

Afghan children watch a platoon of American soldiers, September 24, 2012.

Children in a cemetery in Kabul, June 5, 2011.

Children of War. Girl on the prosthesis in a hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif, May 1, 2013.

US Marines and a father with a child, who had fled from the house after the Taliban opened fire in the town of Marjah in Helmand province, February 13, 2010.