{"id":73105,"date":"2025-03-09T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73105"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:25:30","slug":"the-horrifying-rise-of-bacha-bazi-how-young-afghan-boys-from-poor-families-are-sold-onto-warlords-dressed-up-in-skirts-and-make-up-then-forced-to-dance-for-groups-of-powerful-men-before-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/the-horrifying-rise-of-bacha-bazi-how-young-afghan-boys-from-poor-families-are-sold-onto-warlords-dressed-up-in-skirts-and-make-up-then-forced-to-dance-for-groups-of-powerful-men-before-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The horrifying rise of &#8216;Bacha Bazi&#8217;: How young Afghan boys from poor families are sold onto warlords, dressed up in skirts and make-up then forced to dance for groups of powerful men &#8211; before being sexually abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/07\/17\/95958943-14472279-image-m-25_1741367167472.jpg\" alt=\"A boy is seen dancing in the mountains of Afghanistan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the dimly lit rooms of\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-b45577b0-fb45-11ef-9f33-812ff768f369\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/afghanistan\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Afghanistan<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s private gatherings, young boys adorned in makeup and brightly coloured women&#8217;s clothing are forced to dance for the amusement of powerful men. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14472279\/The-horrifying-rise-Bacha-Bazi-young-Afghan-boys-poor-families-sold-warlords-dressed-skirts-make-forced-dance-groups-powerful-men-sexually-abused.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In the dimly lit rooms of\u00a0Afghanistan&#8216;s private gatherings, young boys adorned in makeup and brightly coloured women&#8217;s clothing are forced to dance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Bacha-Bazi.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73107,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73105\/revisions\/73107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}