Feeling devastated after seeing this news about Afghanistan

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I stumbled across this on BBC — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q25dwj807o

I can’t stop crying. I feel so incredibly devastated that we live in such an unequal world. I cannot believe in 2026 people have to starve and children die — and girls be sold??? because of hunger. Goodness sake. That’s not right, it’s so inhumane. Seeing the tears on those tiny girls’ eyes and how fearful they are just breaks my heart so much, oh Gosh.

I just really feel sorry for these people who have to live under Taliban and suffer immensely. It’s so heartbreaking. And I know these people are not the only ones unfortunately…I just feel like we all have so much, more than we all need to and I wish we could just help the poor more as a whole world. But that doesn’t bring any profits does it???!

I wish I could do something to help, whatever that may be. Does anyone have a clue about what to do? I’d appreciate any insight. Thank you.

No one mentions selling their sons in this article. Only baby girls.

I've already been embroiled in controversy today, I dont want to be again!

Just sad, thats all

There is also a hideous trade in boys in Afghanistan

This!

Oh, in the US, they can spend $1 billion a day on bombs. But not a dime on any day, month or year on universal healthcare, ever. People literally dying of treatable diseases and conditions because they were born, and in a place where cancer patients who can't pay are turfed out on the sidewalk to die there. 👍🏼

There is. Sick fucks selling babies!

It's culturally acceptable in some parts of Afghanistan to sell infant daughters to be child brides.

It's not really to do with poverty, although wealthier families don't do it as much.

It is permissable under Islam - but I do not agree with it.

100 per cent agree with this. Why not sell the boy children? In fact, why doesn’t he sell his body organs to rich westerners? But, no, it’s let sell the females to be used as slaves and sex toys by the men? And we are meant to feel sorry for him?

Now this is true. Its all fucked up.

Would anyone here sell their daughter to a paedophile "because they were hungry"??? Why do we have these crazed rock bottom low expectations for people from the Third World?

Give it half a minute and the solution from our political class will be to let all these Afghani men who sell their daughters to paedophiles come and live in the UK. Our magic soil will fix everything.

https://childmarriagedata.org/country-profiles/afghanistan/

Child marriage is common in Afghanistan

The map shows the prevalence of child marriage (before age 18) across Afghanistan. Data refer to 2023, the latest year with available data.
The practice is most common in Ghor (50%), Farah (50%), Nimroz (49%), and Faryab (49%). One every three seconds according to the website.

They also abuse young boys via child sex slavery. Extract from the article I have linked below (I know some people do t like clicking on links):

Bacha Bazi can be identified as contemporary child sex slavery, endangering the lives of vulnerable young boys. This practices furthermore constitutes a significant portion of human rights violations within Afghanistan. Whereas, it does leave the young boys mostly with little or no skill to pursue a meaningful life. In fact, dancing is the only skill most of the young boys caught up in the business will have for the rest of their life.

The Bacha Bazi highlights a system of gender issues in Afghanistan. Although rural culture in Afghanistan remains to a large extent, misogynistic and male-dominated, illiteracy and poverty also play their role in pushing young boys into sexual enslavement. Adolescent boys have become sex slaves and an object of lustful romance for some of the most influential men in Afghanistan.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2018/01/24/the-revised-afghanistan-criminal-code-an-end-for-bacha-bazi/

Its really grim but I don’t know how it can be fixed. I wouldn’t donate any money as it will no doubt end up in the wrong hands. The West has to accept we cannot fix the worlds issues - we have a rape gang scandal that was swept under the rug here and is apparently still happening.

I think it is disgusting the U.K. government are allowing men from Afghanistan to come here - they clearly treat children badly. No it’s Not all men but too many to bring them to the U.K. - not worth the risk at all. We have enough pedos if our own - it’s clear child sex abuse is common in Afghanistan.

Yet when our brave military obey political orders to enter this Country far from their family and far from their culture or understanding, to risk their lives to change these regimes and prevent these injustices they get demonised by an intellectual elite from the comfort of Islington (and I use that deliberately) who berate imperialism and interference in over seas lands and can't even bring themselves to recognise the ultimate sacrifices of our soldiers on one day a year. What's happening in Afganistan is a tragedy implemented by men and religion. How some of our educated 'progressive' left wing elite are intellectualising their positions are, quite frankly, nauseating.

Would you let your child starve though? I wouldn't.

I would rather we all starved than give one of my children away to ‘marry’ a paedophile, yes.

I think we already are.

Would you sell your daughter to a dirty old man to buy food?

Id starve to death with them rather than that.

Quick AI search shows it’s permissible in Afghanistan under Sharia law.

‘However, since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, there is no official legal minimum age for marriage, as the previous civil code has not been restored and current regulations are based on a restrictive interpretation of Sharia law.
Key details regarding marriage age in Afghanistan:

• Current Legal Status: As of 2025 and 2026, child marriages are not officially banned, and there are no penalties for marrying underage individuals.

Their culture allows it. Pedos are allowed. In their culture sex with a child seems to be okay and acceptable.

Yep.

We have spent billions on Afghanistan, equipping and training their army with state of the art everything while our personnel died to do so.

The second the Brits and Americans left they ran away like cowards and let the Taliban take over and do this.

Sick of the hand wringers trying to explain it away

The thing that struck me most about this article was why did the affluent BBC journalist not give the money to save the little girl from being sold to a prospective paedophile? I find it abhorrent that a BBC journalist could actually sit back and let this happen. And then try to garner sympathy for the ‘father’

He would sell her regardless.

That's bad too, there can be more than one bad thing happening at a time in the world.

So you don't think families should sell their daughters (fair enough)? But when they chose to risk their sons by sending them abroad - or the fathers travel themselves - to try and find a life that will allow them to support their families, then that's no good either?

So basically you want them all dead.

Altogether now - there are no bad and good cultures. All cultures are the same. No culture is superior to another culture. What? Not so convincing now?

What makes you say that?

Some of those comments are vile..

People are sitting in their warm houses, full fridges and stable lives and telling others how to act if they were starving.

May the universe heals your souls !

Can I second the Linda Norgrove Foundation as a great charity? They have strong connections still in Afghanistan and offer subtle and culturally appropriate help to women and children. They are also supporting a small group of Afghani student midwives in Scotland.