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EPISODE · Dec 8, 2015

Episode III : Child Brides and Dancing Boys

from Mic Check Radio · host Occupy the Media Collective

It's a really shitty time to be a kid in the world today, especially if you are one of the 250 million girls under the age of 15 who are forcibly married off by their family each year.  UNICEF and Girls Not Brides are trying their best to raise awareness and combat child marriage, but on some parts of this planet a daughter is a commodity to be sold.  Some daughters as young as 8.  Often times to men old enough to be her father or grandfather.  Unfortunately, the boys of Afghanistan don't have it any better.  The centuries old practice of "bacha baazi" ("boy-play") has returned to Afghanistan, essentially making child rape a cultural norm.  Boys, from 9 to 15 years old, dance for "kaatah" ("owners") in large dance hall parties before being sexually abused.  How culturally normal is this practice?  The occupying forces of the US Military are specifically told not to interfere. [Click to Listen].

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