BBC Bitesize - KS2 PSHE and Citizenship - Ali’s journey from Afghanistan. Afghanistan Cool Challenge fact sheet. Currency Hot Challenge. Afghanistan Hot Challenge fact sheet. Welcome to the Morris Gleitzman Website. UNICEF: Facts on Children and Women in Afghanistan. - 22.1 million people live in poverty and substandard conditions - Infrastructure in ruins from 21 years of war - Systemic gender discrimination against women and girls - Widespread human rights abuses based on ethnicity, religion and language - Landmines.
Afghanistan. 10 facts about Afghanistan - fun and interesting Afghanistan facts. CBBC Newsround - The history of the Afghanistan war. This page was made on Wednesday 7th March 2012Last updated at 16:03 The war in Afghanistan began back in 2001.
A group called the Taliban had controlled most of the country since 1996 but they were overthrown in November 2001 by British and American armed forces, as well as lots of Afghan fighters from a group called the Northern Alliance.