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Poverty Trauma and Taliban’s Misogyny: Forced, Underage Marriages Increased in Afghanistan

8th January, 2023 · admin

8am: Hasht-e-Sobh has found that the deprivation of women has increased family violence, selling and making the girls get forcibly married while being underage in Afghan society. In the meantime, old men and some of the Taliban authorities are trying to abuse the destitution of families and get married to their virgin, underage daughters. Click

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Posted in Afghan Women, Everyday Life, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists, Taliban war on women |
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UN Calls On Taliban To Probe Allegations Of Forced Marriage, Rape Against Key Member

3rd September, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 3, 2022 The United Nations has called on the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan to investigate allegations of the forced marriage and abuse of a medical student by an ex-Taliban official that has sparked strong condemnation by many Afghans. “We call on the de facto authorities to transparently investigate all alleged

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Posted in Afghan Women, Crime and Punishment, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists |
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“Women Have No Right to Sue Men”, Says Taliban in Herat

16th June, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban have recently issued an order in Herat province, saying women do not have the right to sue men. Sources in Herat province told Hasht-e Subh that Taliban judges did not hear women’s complaints against their husbands. According to sources, dozens of women had filed lawsuits for domestic violence against their husbands in

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Herat, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny |
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UN Observer Says Taliban Policies Making Afghan Women Invisible

26th May, 2022 · admin

Ayaz Gul VOA News May 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD — A senior United Nations observer Thursday expressed serious concern about the “erasure of women from public life” across Afghanistan since the Islamist Taliban seized power in August. “Afghanistan is facing a plethora of critical human rights challenges that are having a severe impact on the population,” Richard

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Society, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Misogyny |
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UN Expresses ‘Deep Concern’ Over Taliban’s Latest Moves To Further Restrict Girls, Women, And Media

28th March, 2022 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 28, 2022 The United Nations Security Council has expressed deep concern after the Taliban-led government ordered girls be denied access to high school education amid reports of further restrictions on women and media, including a fresh ban on news bulletins by the BBC and Voice of America (VOA). “The members

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Posted in Afghan Women, Education, Human Rights, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny, Nimroz |
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Taliban Closure of Domestic Abuse Shelters Leaves Thousands at Risk, Experts Say

11th December, 2021 · admin

Munaza Shaheed VOA News December 11, 2021 WASHINGTON — Fahima Sarfaraz, an acid attack survivor who briefly stayed in a shelter to avoid domestic violence, is concerned for her friends and other women who used to live with her in the group home in Kabul, Afghanistan. “Taliban have closed down all the women’s shelters in the

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Posted in Afghan Women, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule |
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Rights Group: Services For Female Survivors of Gender-Based Violence In Afghanistan ‘Decimated’

6th December, 2021 · admin

By RFE/RL Gandhara December 6, 2021 Essential services for female survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been “decimated” since the Taliban took control of the country, Amnesty International said on December 6. In 26 interviews, survivors and service providers told the London-based rights group that the Taliban closed shelters and released inmates from prison,

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban looters |
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Afghan Women’s Shelters Vanishing Under Taliban Rule

26th September, 2021 · admin

By Frud Bezhan RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 26, 2021 KABUL — For nearly 20 years, women’s shelters were a sanctuary for hundreds of Afghan girls and women trying to escape domestic abuse, sexual violence, and forced marriages. Now, since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan last month, dozens of safe houses across Afghanistan have shut down

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Posted in Afghan Children, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Misogyny |
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Violence against women increasing in Afghanistan: Officials

25th November, 2020 · admin · 5 Comments

Ariana: Afghan Ministry of Women’s Affairs said on Wednesday that violence against women in Afghanistan has increased in the past year. Speaking on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the launch of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, the ministry said that 2,582 cases of

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Posted in Afghan Women | Tags: Domestic Violence |
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Afghanistan’s COVID-19 Lockdown Sparks Domestic Abuse Concerns

15th July, 2020 · admin

VOA News: Coronavirus lockdowns have impacted millions around the world in different ways; economically, mentally, and emotionally. In Herat, Afghanistan there are concerns about a possible rise in domestic violence. VOA’s Khalil Noorzai reports from Herat, Afghanistan.

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