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No jobs, no school: Afghan refugees in Pakistan see only a dark future

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Khajida Hazara fled Afghanistan in August 2021 after the Taliban drove out government forces and took over the country. Fearing the group would reimpose its harsh interpretation of sharia law as it had in the 1990s, Hazara fled to neighbouring Pakistan, where she now lives as an unregistered refugee. Although safe from the Taliban, she says…

Uganda: Children forced into gold mining amid school closures

Schools in Uganda have been closed for more than a year and a half because of the pandemic – longer than anywhere else in the world – according to the UN. Schools in Uganda have been closed for more than a year and a half because of the coronavirus pandemic. That is longer than anywhere else in the world, according to the United Nations. In…