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International Roundup Voter registration for Afghan refugees living in Pakistan ended last week with an estimated 650,000 expatriate Afghans registering to vote in their country’s presidential election. Around 600,000 Afghan refugees living in Iran are also eligible to vote. While the expatriate Afghans who have registered make up about 10 percent of the total number of Afghans eligible to vote, another estimated 2 million Afghans, also living in Iran and Pakistan were not registered. ***** A study conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) and the Faculty for Social Sciences (Flacso) reveals that around 6,000 minors a year are trafficked to the DR in complicity with Dominican and Haitian military members. The organizations say that a relative brings most of the youths, but many are victims of scams by human smugglers. Both Unicef and Flacso have begun a program to increase the awareness in Haiti and the DR on the smuggling of minors. USAID and the Pan American Development Foundation of Haiti (PADF) finance the program.
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