Mirror Co UK
- 22:08, 13 Aug 2022
- UPDATED19:23, 14 Aug 2022
Afghan children are being sold for marriage and forced to work as slaves to help their desperate families.
A year since the Taliban takeover, almost 20 million people – nearly half the population – face starvation.
One in eight children goes to bed hungry, with girls eating less than boys.
The departure of Western troops plunged Afghanistan into a humanitarian crisis, leaving the economy on the floor, crippling drought, and girls banned from going to school.
Twelve-year-old Meena was sold off to an older man for marriage because her mother Sadia, 30, needed cash to feed her other three children.