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Despite repeated calls from the human rights groups worldwide, Iran turns a deaf ear to child trafficking that is a lot instigated by parental poverty  A strange and sad nexus of child traffickers is on the loose. Some say that parents themselves are selling off their kids in Iran because they have no money to feed them. Kids and toddlers are being sold for as less as $600 dollars. A gang is at work that picks on children left unassisted in parks or compounds and is also offering money to those needy and destitute who are unable to take care of their kids. Iranian police provide no data about babies being bought and sold nor about the criminal groups involved. Iran has little legislation to prevent the trafficking of children. According to media sources, this is the second largest Iranian children trafficking racquet that has been busted since May 2020. The gang operated in various Iranian cities and was led by a young woman, the paper added. Members of the group confessed th...

Somalian herders have never seen a drought like the one last year and the year before that. It has killed their herds of sheep, goat and even camels. There is no food, no water and literally no vegetation left for their survival Thousands of such herders are now on the move to look for safe haven, into cities which are not even equip to receive them. Earlier war torn, today their battle is with environmental conditions that have made survival not just difficult but impossible. Fierce and frequent droughts and floods have uprooted more than three million Somalis since 2016, according to UNHCR data that tracks internal displacement by cause. Thousands are moving from various pockets in Somalia and moving into the outskirts of cities nearby, creating pockets of migrant population sitting in shanties and makeshift settlements. These cities are already bursting on the seams with no hope to sustain the Somalian herding migrants. Pastoral communities used to assign names to the great drough...

  Change of guard has not brought good news for Afghanistan.... In happy days, when kids weren't suffering from malnutrition  Afghanistan has no aid to support its hospitals. Its accounts have been frozen, creating another huge humanitarian catastrophe; the first one of the century being witnessed in Yemen. What this has resulted in is dried out hospital facilities and rising malnutrition amongst children. Food and supplies are scarce in Afghanistan and the way Taliban is moving around trying to assert its mad power, it isn’t too bothered about the welfare of its people either.   It is now common knowledge that since the Taliban’s military took over in August, Afghanistan has been thrown into a deep economic and humanitarian crisis as almost $10 billion in bank funds – most of them private assets – remain frozen and the majority of aid has been put on hold.   As the military style governance now handles their own internal power fights, it is oblivious to the ...