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Richard Bennett Says Afghan Children Are Growing Up in Fear and Hopelessness

From Khaama Press · () English

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  • UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett told the Human Rights Council that Afghan children are growing up amid fear, deprivation and hopelessness.
  • Bennett warned that Afghanistan’s next generation faces a deepening human rights crisis after nearly five years of regime change.

Afghanistan’s children are growing up in an atmosphere of fear, deprivation and hopelessness, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett told the UN Human Rights Council.

Presenting his latest report, Bennett warned that nearly five years of regime change had left the country’s next generation facing a deepening human rights crisis.

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