No system of protection or support for women fleeing domestic violence
Men could commit domestic violence, injure and even kill their female family members with impunity. Instead, women who suffered rape and other forms of violence could end up being accused of moral crimes and adultery and risk being stoned to death as punishment.
Basic Women's Rights
The basic women rights that's enjoyed across the world is taken away from Afghan women. Afghan women lost their basic rights:
Lost Education Right
Only primary school allowed no secondary education, no college, no university allowed.
Lost Right of Work
Prohibited from working outside home or running a business.
Lost Right of Movement
Not allowed to travel over 50km without a close male blood relative or go to the restaurants. Banned from attending beauty saloons, national parks and amusement parks, going to gyms or playing sports.
Lost Right of Clothing
Has to adhere to strict code of dressing, ground and first floor homes windows must be covered to avoid women being seen from outside.
Lost Right of Peaceful Protest
Women lost their right of expression, prohibited from participating in politics, civil society or peaceful protest.
Gender based violence
Women face gender based violence, arbitrary detention increased for moral corruption and fleeing abuse.
Destitution
Afghanistan is a living testimony to the destruction that modern warfare can cause in human lives. But when the ruination of war is complemented by the ravages of nature and lack of opportunity, human existence falls below the worst level of degradation imaginable. That, unfortunately, is what Afghanistan has been reduced to by 23 years of war and patriarchal system. In a desperate struggle to keep body and soul together girls as young as 10 has been sold to keep the rest of the family alive.
Stories
In the new Afghanistan, it's sell your daughter or starve. By Stephanie Sinclair, the founder and president of Too Young To Wed.
January 15, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST
