The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) for the southern region said on Tuesday that the number of children involved in manual labor has increased, with at least 20,000 working in Kandahar.

Ongoing fighting in Kandahar and Uruzgan provinces is said to be one of the main reasons behind the increase of the number of children employed as laborers.

“Nearly 20,000 child are doing (manual) labor in the province,” Fakhruddin Faiez, deputy head of AIHRC in Kandahar said.

In this episode of FaraKhabar, host Fawad Aman discusses the topic with Mohammad Belal Sediqqi, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and Abdul Fatah Oshrat Ahmadzai, media advisor at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.