Biograp hical Sketch

The issues of Human Rights violations have always been of grave concern to the Human Right Defenders. The cases of human right violations ignite fury and anguish and pose challenge for the world. This paper here forth brings forward the odious crime of ‘Bacha Bazi’, and explains how the organized crime takes place in the country, it reflects on the plight of the victim, questions the responsibility of the government to act and pushes for humanitarian intervention. It states that though the crime is restricted to one country but the onus of demolishing this traditional practice lies on the international community as a whole. The world should therefore come together and join hands to save the future of the Afghan Boys.

Bacha Bazi: Unraveling Debate between Crime Against Humanity and Regional Tradition, 2023

This study analyzes the Bacha Bazi phenomenon in Afghanistan through the lens of international law, exploring its potential classification as a crime against humanity. It examines the physical, psychological, and sexual harm inflicted on underage boys and highlights the Taliban's involvement. It assesses the harm inflicted on underage boys and the Taliban's involvement while also reviewing Afghanistan's revised penal code and its implementation challenges. The study suggests utilizing the Responsibility to Protect framework to address the issue, emphasizing collective action and cooperation between Afghanistan and the international community to combat Bacha Bazi and protect children's rights.

Novum Jus

Of late, the sexual exploitation of minors has become a raging issue for several nations across the world. Among these nations, the South Asian country of Afghanistan sees a disturbingly high incidence of sexual exploitation cases, among which the practice called Bacha Bazi has drawn widespread attention and criticism from all quarters. In this practice, young boys are made to dress up in feminine clothes and make-up, in a sexualized manner, and, subsequently, in a lot of cases, forced into flesh trade. The prostitution and slavery of these young boys has become rampant. This paper examines the reasons for sexual exploitation of minors in general, and the resurgence of the practice of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan in particular. It details the Taliban's role in abolishing Bacha Bazi, as well as lawlessness in the post-Taliban rule, which became a major reason for the blooming of this condemnable practice. The study also discusses the role of the taboo of homosexuality in conservative Afghanistan in the flourishing of Bacha Bazi. Finally, it analyzes the lack of willingness of the international community to fight against Bacha Bazi, and offers some suggestions for the elimination of the practice. However, as important human rights scholars have noted, such a practice is very difficult to abolish, even when it threatens to challenge the very basic foundation of human rights and civilization in the 21st century.

Journal of Military Ethics, 2018

Of late, the sexual exploitation of minors has become a raging issue for several nations across the world. Among these nations, the South Asian country of Afghanistan sees a disturbingly high incidence of sexual exploitation cases, among which the practice called Bacha Bazi has drawn widespread attention and criticism from all quarters. In this practice, young boys are made to dress up in feminine clothes and make-up, in a sexualized manner, and, subsequently, in a lot of cases, forced into flesh trade. The prostitution and slavery of these young boys has become rampant. This paper examines the reasons for sexual exploitation of minors in general, and the resurgence of the practice of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan in particular. It details the Taliban's role in abolishing Bacha Bazi, as well as lawlessness in the post-Taliban rule, which became a major reason for the blooming of this condemnable practice. The study also discusses the role of the taboo of homosexuality in conservative Afghanistan in the flourishing of Bacha Bazi. Finally, it analyzes the lack of willingness of the international community to fight against Bacha Bazi, and offers some suggestions for the elimination of the practice. However, as important human rights scholars have noted, such a practice is very difficult to abolish, even when it threatens to challenge the very basic foundation of human rights and civilization in the 21st century.

Afghanistan is a country torn by war, famine, and poverty. The generation growing up right now in the country has known nothing but war their entire lives, and this has left a gaping hole in the country -morally, socially, and in so many other ways. One issue that has just recently been brought to light in western media is the cultural practice of Pederasty, or more specifically, 'bacha bazi'; a practice in which a young boy, between the ages of 10-18(typically) is dressed in women's clothing, and dances for a group of men, not only to provide visual pleasure, but also for the men to use the boys in sexually abusive ways. The practice is not exclusive to Afghanistan, but it has risen to international attention because of not only a recent documentary on the subject, but also the book and movie 'The Kite

Forced marriages in Afghanistan as a violation of girls' Human Rights: why is the State not punished internationally? (Atena Editora), 2023

The article's central objective is to analyze the responsibility of the Afghan State and the reasons for the prevailing international impunity of the State that neglects the practice of forced marriages with underage girls, which constitute transgressions of Human Rights present in the International Convention on Rights of Children. In view of the ratification of the agreement by Afghanistan and the hard law characteristic that this treaty has acquired, the effectiveness of the Committee on the Rights of the Child will be analyzed in guaranteeing the application of the requirements of the aforementioned Treaty. This research will present, in terms of approach, qualitative characteristics, as it will analyze state responsibility in the face of transgressions of precepts established in treaties. Regarding nature, the research will be of an applied nature, seeking to resolve the issue of impunity in Afghanistan through Regional Human Rights Systems.

Criminal Law Forum, 2013

This is not by simple coincidence that the two volumes under review have come up at the same time. They are appearing at an important historical turn when the International Criminal Court along with the national jurisdictions are coming afore while the major international ad hoc tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda are nearing their ends of mandate. The two books are to be seen as expressing a gained clear understanding that crimes against humanity need effective international enforcement through a universal mechanism, and provoking further discussion regarding their development and shaping out. Their principal differences are in the coverage, format and approaches.

Sri Lanka Guardian, 2023

The Taliban regime will not stop, it will keep on pushing the Afghan society and people into the dungeons of violence, ignorance, brutality, and poverty. The obsession with establishing their interpretation of Sharia-based law and a puritan society has completely undone the little progress made by Afghanistan over the two decades preceding the Taliban’s return to power. In its present avatar, the Taliban is more deadly and more organised to impose its will, at the cost of common Afghans.