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- 4.3. Actions taken by the Afghanistan government
- 4.4. Current situation of Afghanistan under implementation of the safety legislations from child abuse
- 4.5. Conclusion
- 5. RESULTS/ FINDINGS
- Bacha-Bazi: The Tragedy of Afghanistan’s Dancing Boys.
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which is making serious exploitation over the religious culture of Afghanistan. Meanwhile UNICEF is giving huge support over the role of certificate course in social or giving compete protection of the children of the country so that they do not get prone to illegal practice of homosexual abuse. For abolishing this illegal practice of Bacha-Bazi in Afghanistan UNICEF is making out a 24/7 advocacy for giving complete freedom and safety to the children so that they are properly able to understand the time period of childhood and is not forced to get into adulthood with less maturity standard. 4.3. Actions taken by the Afghanistan government The government of Afghanistan has recently taken up the initiative for making provincial level monitoring and monitoring over the boys who are dragged into “boy play” for meeting sexual satisfaction of the middle aged people and this should be totally detained under the national security charges for betterment and safety of the children’s those who have been made prone to the sexual abuse. In return to this initiative developed by the government of the country UNICEF is determined to provide good amount of technical support to the government for putting into practice different legal action plans in order to provide justice to the children’s so that they are able to lead a proper and healthy childhood ( Raj 2008). Further in order to provide proper justice to the children who had already been accused under the child abuse UNICEF is currently notice to take up serious legal actions for making the legal protection rules developed for the safety of the children, also higher level of coordination and collaboration among the administrative officials of the other countries have been mutually developed so that legal punishment or the person who are involved in this kind of activities so that the punishment suggested to them would be mutually considered all. The government today is putting stress over imposing more legal rules and systems for improving the level of co-ordination and collaboration of Afghanistan with the other states in order to save small children from falling into the trap of sexual abuse as they are the future of the nation. From the year 2003, UNICEF is notice to provide strong social support to the government of Afghanistan for developing and implementing a Child protection and Action Network in order to provide different types of services to the children of the country of Afghanistan so that they are able to protect themselves from this type of harmful and dangerous child abuse. Along with this the government of Afghanistan and UNICEF is notice to provide support to the human rights
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commission, who is on the move to fulfil their constitutional mandate for the need of protecting, promoting as well as monitoring the human rights of Afghanistan ( Sullivan 2009). Most importantly the child rights unit at the AIHRC is found to focus on monitoring activities on the children who are at risks and in order to let know about the children who are considered now under marginalised situations. Today report suggest, that UNICEF child protection have made huge achievements in developing a strong legislative framework making use of which the culture of Afghan country is maintained along with complete protection of the children of the country so that they experience a perfect childhood period rather than being forced to develop elderly behavior for satisfaction of others.
The situation of Afghanistan children has improved to some extent after the implementation of the different legislative rules and regulations in perspective of child abuse. Children who are very much prone to domestic violence often flee out from their homes and these children’s mainly fall into the trap of domestic violence. To some extent fear have got into the powerful men of the country who mainly carried out this activity of homosexual abuse fearlessly in the afghan society. The government has moved away the less powerful armed forces and implemented new group of armed forces who would be highly concerned about the security of the children in the country. Change in the legislative rules like spread of education in order to reduce the rate of illiteracy that would be indirectly beneficial for reducing the rate of child abuse in Afghanistan. Improved form of guardianship within the afghan families have restricted people to reduce domestic violence and brought a reduction in the rate of losing their own children as children were found to fled away from their own homes due to domestic violence and felt into the trap of homosexual abuse. Increased effectiveness of judicial mechanisms have now made many places secure for the children’s to move around and it is only with the help of judicial mechanism the practice of Bacha-Bazi have got down because now the sexual perpetrators have the fear of being sentenced to death once they are caught red handed. Other safety legislations that has been included under the list of Afghan’s social policy is by the AIHRC who have brought into effect national program to provide high level of awareness for those vulnerable
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families about the harmful consequences of child abduction specially Bacha-Bazi. Even after the imposition of different new rules and legislative principles still more improvements are required and the children’s should be more adhere to different strict, conservative as well as social norms so that they are able to make complete maturity of both of their physical and psychological status till the time period this children’s become capable of handling adulthood responsibility. Good protections over the human rights have now been imposed in order to save the male children from the risk of violence, abuse as well as sexual exploitation at any time in future. The initiation of extensive advocacy along with proper technical training support initiated by the UNICEF a child protection network is developed n order to provide case management services to children who have been effected by violence, abuse and exploitation UNICEF has also forwarded a helping hand to the Afghanistan government for implementing an inter ministerial action plan just for the purpose of increasing the rate of birth registration coverage which in future would prove to be beneficial for protecting the child living in remote areas in the country of Afghanistan.
Child abuse is a serious offence today and Afghanistan being one of the most religious countries makes a void over the different weakened legislative rules and regulations that have already been imposed by the government of the country, but this weakened legislative rules are increasing the confidence of the perpetrators to carry out more illegal activities related to child abuse (
Usta 2010). AIHRC is requesting the government to make criminalisation over the Bacha-Bazi practices by making further modification over the penal code and accordingly integrate the criminal law labelling the child abuse practices as criminal offence which could not be forgiven, but a sentence to death. The human rights commission today is come forward for developing certain constitutional mandate in order to protect and promote the level of human rights in the country of Afghanistan so that people along with their children do not have to stay in fear, but lead a fearless life giving complete freedom of movement to their children.
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5. RESULTS/ FINDINGS While both Afghan government and international community want to eradicate the illegal act of Bacha-Bazi in Afghanistan, I assume that the Afghan government is too weak to enforce law against those who are involve in the practice of Bacha-Bazi, because they are very powerful and well-armed former Northern-alliance commanders and warlords and rich businessmen. Second, many of the men involved in Bacha-Bazi are members of Afghan government and law enforcing agencies such as governors, line ministers, police chiefs, and military commanders. Third, weak judicial systems, corruption, corporatism, the absence of the rule of law and poverty also fuel Bacha-Bazi and child trafficking in Afghanistan. (Kapur et al, 2014). The United States and its allies in Afghanistan have maintained the policy of non-intervention about Bacha-Bazi because many of the people involved in Bacha-Bazi are former Northern-alliance commanders and their militia who helped the United States toppled the Taliban Regime. The United States have trained these militia and military men to fight against Taliban alongside the United States; therefore, they want to maintain good relationship with them. (Goldstein et al,. 2015).
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