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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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‘Either Be Taliban’s Wife or His Cow,’ Pro-Taliban Cleric Addresses Women in Faryab

1st January, 2023 · admin

8am: Speaking in a public gathering, he says that mullahs are the kindest and most knowledgeable people in society. For this reason, “Either be a mullah’s wife or be a mullah’s cow.” In this speech, he encourages families to convince their daughters to marry Taliban forces. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Afghan Women, Taliban | Tags: Faryab, Forced marriage by Taliban |
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Two Girls in Samangan Raped, Beheaded by Taliban Fighters, Reports

24th December, 2022 · admin

8am: Sources confirmed to Hasht-e Subh on Saturday that two bodyguards of the Taliban governor for Roy Doab district, Mullah Shamshad, raped these two girls a week ago in Surkh Qala village of the same vicinity and then beheaded them in front of their families. According to locals, after his bodyguards raped these girls, Mullah

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Samangan, Taliban Rapists |
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Afghans Increasingly Marrying Off Young Daughters To Avoid Forced Unions With Taliban

1st December, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique December 1, 2022 In the 15 months since the Taliban took power, there has been a dramatic increase in early marriages of Afghan girls — a trend activists and human rights campaigners attribute to parents’ belief that securing a spouse for their girls is better than seeing them forced to

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Posted in Afghan Children, Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: child marriage, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists |
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Taliban’s Top Vice and Virtue Agent Kills Young Girl for Refusing His Marriage Proposal in Balkh

7th November, 2022 · admin

8am: The Taliban’s senior vice and virtue agent killed a young girl for refusing a forced marriage proposal in the Sholgara district of Balkh province. Sources told Hasht-e Subh on Sunday (November 7th) that the teenage girl was killed by Mullah Yasin after rejecting a marriage proposal from the Taliban commander. Since taking over Afghanistan,

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Posted in Afghan Women, Taliban | Tags: Balkh, Forced marriage by Taliban, Taliban Rapists |
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Taliban Polygamy, Senior Leaders Entertain Multiple Marriages Under the Pretext of Self-Interpreted Religious Concepts

2nd November, 2022 · admin

8am: After taking over Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban became the country’s sole ruling force in terms of political and social power. As a result, they began to do things that had previously only occurred in their imaginations. The commanders of this group have chosen beautiful young women and girls for marriage under

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Posted in Afghan Women, Corruption, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Forced marriage by Taliban, polygamy, Taliban Rapists |
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A Taliban Member Abducts a 17-Year-Old Girl in Bamiyan

7th September, 2022 · admin

8am: A local source in Bamiyan told Hasht-e Subh on Wednesday, September 7, that 40 year old Seyeed Taqi Alavi has abducted a 17-year-old girl from Solij village of Yekavalang District No. 2 for the purpose of marriage. After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, incidents of forced marriages with measurable age differences have increased.

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Abduction, Bamiyan, Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban Rapists |
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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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‘Better To Die’: Afghan Woman Accuses Taliban Official Of Rape, Forced Marriage

2nd September, 2022 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 2, 2022 A young Afghan woman has accused a Taliban official of beating, raping, and forcibly marrying her in a video that has gone viral. Elaha Delawazai, a medical student at Kabul University, made the allegations against former Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosty in a video that surfaced on social

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Posted in Afghan Women, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Forced marriage by Taliban, Life under Taliban rule, Saeed Khosti, Taliban Rapists |
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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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