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.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

Skateboarders. Kabul, August 8, 2008.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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.

Afghanistan - war children

View of Kabul, November 11, 2012.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

School class in Nangarhar Province, March 19, 2013.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

In the east of Afghanistan, September 7, 2006.

Afghanistan - war children

Boy Balloon Seller, Kabul, 18 October 2011.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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.

Afghanistan - war children

In Kabul, November 7, 2012.

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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

Afghanistan - war children

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.

Afghanistan - war children

In Kabul, August 10, 2011.

Afghanistan - war children

On the outskirts of Herat, April 9, 2013.

Afghanistan - war children

On the street in Herat, January 14, 2013.

Afghanistan - war children

The entertainment at the little local children. For example, it is possible to jump over the roof of the car destroyed. Kabul, July 5, 2012.

Afghanistan - war children

The victims of anti-personnel mines. Daughter and mother with a prosthesis. Kabul, 12 November 200 years.

Afghanistan - war children