AFGHANISTAN: Crackdown on Kabul beggars continues‎

KABUL, 10 September 2009 (IRIN) - The government outlawed street-begging in November 2008 and set up a commission - made up of different government bodies and the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) - to end street-begging in the capital.

Afghanistan is the fifth least developed country, with 42 percent of its estimated 27 million people living on less than US$1 a day, according to the UN Development Programme.
AFGHANISTAN: Crackdown on Kabul beggars continues‎
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