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Rise in Domestic Violence Against Women in Afghanistan: No Institution for Justice

17th May, 2025 · admin · Leave a comment

8am: Women and girls in Afghanistan report a dramatic and unprecedented rise in domestic violence since the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions and dismantled legal protections and support institutions. Many now say they have no access to the judicial or legal systems and believe this legal vacuum has emboldened perpetrators of violence within families. They argue

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Posted in Afghan Women | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule |
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Taliban Send Victims of Domestic Violence to Prison

9th March, 2024 · admin

By Lina Rozbih VOA News March 8, 2024 WASHINGTON — For 27-year-old Leeda, “life is like hell” as her husband beats her every day and she “has to tolerate it” because she has “no other option.” “My body is always bruised, now I am used to it, I have to tolerate it for my children,” Leeda, a

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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UN Mission Says Taliban Putting Afghan Women In Prison For Protection From Violence

14th December, 2023 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 14, 2023 The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says de facto Taliban governing officials have admitted to sending women to prison as a means of protecting them from gender-based violence. In a report published on December 14, the UN mission said the Taliban has eliminated the country’s 23 state protection

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Posted in Afghan Women, Taliban, UN-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Domestic Violence |
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Thousands of women in Afghanistan likely to be punished for adultery after Taliban invalidates divorces

5th March, 2023 · admin

Livemint: Under the previous government, the women were granted one-sided divorce helping them to escape abusive and drug-addicted husbands. Some of these women remarried to start a new life, but the extreme imposition of Islamic law by the Taliban is making these women vulnerable to imprisonment or other types of violent punishments for the crime

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Posted in Afghan Women, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Domestic Violence, Life under Taliban rule, Taliban war on women |
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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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